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[lemekim]

Here's a possibility for you since you want to look at trinkets.

Use a ZHM (I think that's the one that adds +40 damage stepping down 2 damage per hit for 20 seconds) while in stealth and not in combat, switch the trinket to a +AP trinket. Have Bezerker on both the target and the attacker, have Opportunity, have the target be a clothie without their armor spell up, maybe add in Curse of Recklessness (which means 0 armor) or a single Sunder (again, 0 armor for a clothie). Can you see it happening then with a Pugio?

It seems possible to me, there's a lot of +damage % multipliers and a lot of initial +damage.

Using ZHM breaks stealth. And if you take it off, the buff dissapears. That's a no go.

Let's look at this situation in reverse: what AP does the rogue need to get 2500 ambush NON-CRIT?

Let's take away Berserker buff on the rogue, Berserker debuff on Mongo - 2500 / (1.3*1.1) = 1748 damage ambush. Taking away Opportunity, that's 1748/1.2 = 1456 ambush. This means that the base damage is: (1456 - 290) / 2.5 = 466.4

The top end damage on Death's Sting (currently highest damage dagger) is 144 damage, so the amount of base damage that has to come from AP is 322.4.

Because Ambush is one of the normalized attacks, the DPS needed to reach that base damage is 322.4/1.7 = 189.6 DPS - or 2655 attack power. NOBODY is running around with that kind of AP, not even buffed and with trinkets. And remember that these calculations are done on UNARMORED person - if you take even 15% reduction from armor, the amount of AP needed to reach this ambush damage is closer to 3500.

Conclusion?

As I said before, the only logical explanation for what you saw was that the combat log incorrectly reported a crit as a hit, because it was partially absorbed. This is not a matter of "getting better gear", this is a matter of it being simply impossible.