07-06-2006, 05:17 PM
Quote:Basis? Okay, here. Raid buffed, average main-hand melee damage (as shown on char screen, so it doesn't include crits) given my gear comes out to be 310. That's Perdition's, 8/8 BF, DFT, Blackhand's Breath, Concentrated Hatred. Upgrade all of that to Naxx loot, excluding the trinkets, you get 368 average. This is simple weapon damage + AP bonus.
You're basically telling me that an 18% buff, plus some timered trinkets and beserker increases the damage by 250%? I don't think so. Especially when your Rogues don't have that loot themselves, yet.
You know, it is possible that it happened in a battleground so that the rogue in question may have had a berserker buff on. It's been a while, so I'm fuzzy on the details of the situation. I just remember very strongly looking at my combat log after a particularly fast death and seeing the non-crit ambush for over 2300 damage and commenting on it in guild chat and in TS. I'll ask Araxis, our resident decked out rogue who had the 2500 ambush if he remembers if he had a berserker buff on or not as well.
However, none of this changes the central thesis, which is that overall rogue dps is about what it should be. Now, if you're suggesting that a certain rogue build isn't scaling as well as another build, I'm happy to buy into that point. However, the problem may lie with the second build scaling up too quickly rather than the first build scaling up too slowly. This is similar to my comments above about dps warriors. Many of our guild's rogues complain about how dps warriors get to wear plate and yet are scaling to the point where they are competing with rogues on the damage meter. However, this is a problem with the multiplicate scaling of warriors (better equipment increases damage which simultaneously increases rage generation) and not a problem with rogues.