Quote:To be honest, I was trying to get some questions about how Devastate works answered on the official forums before my subscription lapsed, but this was during the time where the entire first three pages got scrolled every thirty minutes under the tide of whines about TM being moved to Protection, so I never got a good answer (and it was probably likely no one short of the blues had the answers.) Finding out if the threat scaled was one of them, though given my PvP stance, not one of the important ones:)
I was also looking to find out if the damage multiplied with each Sunder stack, so that a target with five Sunders on it already would take 250% + (15*5), or 25*5/35*5 for the higher ranks. It doesn't sound unreasonable to me, and it would certainly fit the bill of "Devastate", since you'd be unloading all that damage on something that has its armor substantially lowered. I don't think there'd be many situations in PvP where you'd have something survive long enough to get a full stack on it (well, besides flagcarriers and solo combat and possibly bears), but even with two Sunders on it (which is pretty much normal for anything I fight), you'd toss out 100% + 15*2, which isn't bad when you consider the low Rage cost and Sunder refresh.
I'm hoping that since TBC is in Beta now, someone will be able to answer those questions for me.
http://forums.worldofwarcraft.com/thread.h...=47140111&sid=1
http://forums.elitistjerks.com/viewtopic...=8161&p=28
In short: Devastate seemingly only adds damage for each sunder; the small bonus aggro it has (around 1/5th that of a sunder) does not change, regardless of how many sunder applications are there on the mob.
This bonus aggro may or may not be affected by weapon damage, but because it's so small, for all intents and purposes that is irrelevant.
As for druid "burst aggro"... Don't forget that they now also get Mangle, and Lacerate as a rage dump well. And all their abilities scale with AP, so even swipe now hits for something like 250 on a mob in TBC.