07-09-2006, 08:31 PM
Quote:OK so this post has changed I was trying to do an analysis and realized I kept screwing it up so now I'm asking a question.
So the conventional wisdom I hear is that warriors want windfury totem and rogues want grace of air totem when trying to max out damage. I've been in some conversations that make me wonder about this.
I question whether that is actually the "conventional wisdom". From talking to experienced raiding guilds, and from virtually all the math I've ever seen, rogues get Windfury. Period.
Even if Windfury ends up giving rogues slightly less damage than GoA to rogues, you should probably be using windfury so you can group up rogues and warriors, since rogues must always receive Battleshout. Rogues get grouped with a warrior who gives them battleshout, and everyone gets Windfury. I also can tell you flat out that at high levels of raiding Windfury is virtually always superior to GoA because it scales so dramatically while GoA barely scales at all.
Rogues must have Battleshout, all warriors should have Windfury if possible. The difference this makes is ridiculious at the highest levels of gameplay and if your raid leaders can't manage to at least try to fulfill this they really shouldn't be leading raids. Thats sort of a jab at my old guild which was run with an incredible level of incompetence. We were lucky if the rogues got any buffs - it was miserable. I was a warrior and I had to advocate for them, mainly by volunteering to get grouped with them, and when I brought this up to the other guild officers I got a stern lecture from one of our hunters about how in our guild the hunters top the damage charts so we should give them GoA. I'm not sure if he understood the ridiculiousness of denying rogues damage buffs under the criteria that they never seem to do as much damage as they should.;)