the once and future Spangles

[Concillian]

The white damage from rend can crit and generate rage.
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Rend is a DOT, and doesn't do any damage until a couple seconds after application, when the first tick happens. It doesn't crit and all the damage is yellow damage. Am I missing something about rend? Do you have improved improved rend?

I'd say you were thinking of another skill, but I can't think of any skill that uses rage and also has the potential to generate rage (except for druids >_<). Maybe shield block can if you have shield spec, but you're mitigating damage to gain 1 rage, so it's probably not an overall net gain.

The good thing about rend (and deep wounds) is that the damage isn't mitigated by armor in any way, so when comparing the damage per rage vs. other things, you can do a hamstring to figure out how much mitigation they have (mobs in silithus were giving ~25-30 damage on a hamstring, so around 33-45% mitigation), then you can figure out how much bonus rend has.

People talk about how worthless rend is, but it really isn't that bad if you use it in the beginning of a fight where you are guaranteed the duration. Mostly because it ignores armor. I think if you have improved rend, rage efficiency is quite a bit better for rend than HS.