Tanking with a rogue (duo w/sham)

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Originally Posted by Garnaak [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Obviously if you have a 15/21 available to you the 12/20 or 13/20 is going away. I don't believe that was the question though. OP only has 12/20, 15/25, or 20/34 slash available to them.

"Only" ~7% or 12% improvement for something as simple as location swapping. Seems simple to me. People spend countless hours camping and raiding for improvements that garner much less improvement than that.

For full disclosure I was responding to the previous post, not the OP. I doubt 12/20 MH will do more than match the primary ragebringer in most situations. Raid rogues that MH it can still end up high on the parse. I haven’t seen A 12/20 rogue up there.

The issue is you pick only 7% MH melee dps at an expense of a substantial backstab loss. 55+ you have the chance at double backstabs and discs that radically bump the dps.

The Ragebringer is a slow lumpy weapon. Those 500 damage backstabs though sneak up your DPS. I personally wouldn’t offhand MH for anything worse than a 13/20. As silly as optimizing an offhand is, it’s a better route. At least it’s a very proven one.

As for something as simple as location swapping. People often make bad “free” choices in this game despite the math not making sense.

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In the OP’s situation if the Sham isnt tanking or rooting to help the rogue BS off cooldown, yea just swap in the 12/20 and melee like a boring ranger.

[zelld52]

Originally Posted by Garnaak [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Obviously if you have a 15/21 available to you the 12/20 or 13/20 is going away. I don't believe that was the question though. OP only has 12/20, 15/25, or 20/34 slash available to them.

"Only" ~7% or 12% improvement for something as simple as location swapping. Seems simple to me. People spend countless hours camping and raiding for improvements that garner much less improvement than that.

Do not use the scimitar. It's too slow.

[Garnaak]

I actually have had the opposite experience. Never make parses mainhanding RB, but consistently just under the NToV/Tuna rogues when I go 12/20 mainhand instead.