The last month, mutilate and me!
More then a month without a new post on this blog... shame on me.
So, here are the news. 2 days after I made my last post my guild managed to get some serious tries on the Four Horsemen and downed them. Sapphiron followed a week later and Tuesday, 28 November they finally got Kel'Thuzad down. These were moments where I regretted that I had to stop raiding the most.
When patch 2.0.1 got released I started to pvp a bit more serious. I did every BG and even some world ganking, played in pickups and premades and guildgroups (10 AB wins in 2 hours -> 2.5k honor after the nerf. yay!) and had some great time. Even though the overall gear level is rapidly increasing my rogue is still at the top end gearwise.
For the first 2 weeks I was playing a mutilate build which I enjoyed a lot. It's insane combo point generation and some great burst damage. I had my bank full of Thistle Teas and knowing they will get a nerf soon I used them freely. CS-CB-Mut-KS-Mut-Tea-Mut-Evi muhahahah!
If you didn't try using CB on the first Mutilate yet I'm gonna tell you why you should start doing it. It makes the 2 individual strikes both crit so you increase your burst damage quite significantly which is helpfull in all fights while a CB Evi after a CS-Mut-KS combo is often not possible because the target a) died or b) escaped.
You also get a guaranteed 5cp thanks to Sealfate! That means that your Kidneyshot will hold the full duration and you get the most out of your Find Weaknesses and Improved Kidneyshot skill.
Now you might have the impression one of your Mutilate strikes is critting often enough... well if you got 30% critrate the chance for at least one of your mutilate strikes to crit is 51%. (The chance not to crit with one strike is 0.7 with both attacks its 0.7 * 0.7 = 0.49) Imo once every second fight is not often enough once you got to win a hard one on one.^^
You might also point out that you don't like to waste CB on an attack that has already a high chance to crit on its own. Well, with 30% base chance you have a 30% chance that your Evi would have critted anyway so it's a 30% chance that your CB is wasted there. When you do a CB before Mutilate it applies to both individual strikes and these strikes have just the same crit chance as an Eviscerate so the average chance for CB being wasted on a Mutilate is the same 30% as for Evi. (It's just that there are more possible outcomes than "completely wasted" and "made full use of") But your Mutilate can't be parried or dodged as your target is affected by a CS and you are in his back. So you won't lose your CB to a dodge or parry whereas (dependant on what you are fighting against) a dodged or parried Eviscerate is quite a common thing.
If you are still not convinced here is another good reason why Mutilate should get your CB instead of Eviscerate: Mutilate strikes that crit do 230% of the base damage while Eviscerate crits do only 200% of their non-crit damage. That is because Lethality does affect Mutilate while it has no effect on Eviscerate.
Unless you have very weak gear where critting Eviscerates do a lot more damage then a double-crit Mutilate the Mutilate is a lot better to use CB on. Give it a try!
Next post I'm gonna write a short review of my current Hemo spec that I use with a GM sword. I'm running out of lines for today! =)
So, here are the news. 2 days after I made my last post my guild managed to get some serious tries on the Four Horsemen and downed them. Sapphiron followed a week later and Tuesday, 28 November they finally got Kel'Thuzad down. These were moments where I regretted that I had to stop raiding the most.
When patch 2.0.1 got released I started to pvp a bit more serious. I did every BG and even some world ganking, played in pickups and premades and guildgroups (10 AB wins in 2 hours -> 2.5k honor after the nerf. yay!) and had some great time. Even though the overall gear level is rapidly increasing my rogue is still at the top end gearwise.
For the first 2 weeks I was playing a mutilate build which I enjoyed a lot. It's insane combo point generation and some great burst damage. I had my bank full of Thistle Teas and knowing they will get a nerf soon I used them freely. CS-CB-Mut-KS-Mut-Tea-Mut-Evi muhahahah!
If you didn't try using CB on the first Mutilate yet I'm gonna tell you why you should start doing it. It makes the 2 individual strikes both crit so you increase your burst damage quite significantly which is helpfull in all fights while a CB Evi after a CS-Mut-KS combo is often not possible because the target a) died or b) escaped.
You also get a guaranteed 5cp thanks to Sealfate! That means that your Kidneyshot will hold the full duration and you get the most out of your Find Weaknesses and Improved Kidneyshot skill.
Now you might have the impression one of your Mutilate strikes is critting often enough... well if you got 30% critrate the chance for at least one of your mutilate strikes to crit is 51%. (The chance not to crit with one strike is 0.7 with both attacks its 0.7 * 0.7 = 0.49) Imo once every second fight is not often enough once you got to win a hard one on one.^^
You might also point out that you don't like to waste CB on an attack that has already a high chance to crit on its own. Well, with 30% base chance you have a 30% chance that your Evi would have critted anyway so it's a 30% chance that your CB is wasted there. When you do a CB before Mutilate it applies to both individual strikes and these strikes have just the same crit chance as an Eviscerate so the average chance for CB being wasted on a Mutilate is the same 30% as for Evi. (It's just that there are more possible outcomes than "completely wasted" and "made full use of") But your Mutilate can't be parried or dodged as your target is affected by a CS and you are in his back. So you won't lose your CB to a dodge or parry whereas (dependant on what you are fighting against) a dodged or parried Eviscerate is quite a common thing.
If you are still not convinced here is another good reason why Mutilate should get your CB instead of Eviscerate: Mutilate strikes that crit do 230% of the base damage while Eviscerate crits do only 200% of their non-crit damage. That is because Lethality does affect Mutilate while it has no effect on Eviscerate.
Unless you have very weak gear where critting Eviscerates do a lot more damage then a double-crit Mutilate the Mutilate is a lot better to use CB on. Give it a try!
Next post I'm gonna write a short review of my current Hemo spec that I use with a GM sword. I'm running out of lines for today! =)
posted by lithander at 4:57 PM
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