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[Quark]

Could the scaling thing be overwrought?

Is the new eviscerate potent enough to have a place in the rotation of a maximally geared rogue, now that we can theorycraft the endgear preexpansion?

Just asking.

We haven't recieved numbers on it yet. Of course, the last rogue book upgrade was a whole 15 damage on Backstab (no, it doesn't get the % bonus). The first problem is it takes undergeared/farmer rogues and makes them stronger (they didn't need it!). The second problem is simple combo point management, take out Slice and Dice from Combat Daggers for my gear, and you lose a potential 81 DPS. Do you really think Eviscerate can match that? Combat Swords and Rupture can now use Eviscerate over Rupture without thought, but just taking a guess I'm thinking that'll be a minimal increase in DPS at best. Eviscerate/Rupture are only fillers for the SnD cycle. And those fillers will only get worse as time goes on. The design philosophy behind Eviscerate and Rupture are the reason many rogues come to the conclusion that extra combo points are essentially wasted. Once you can keep up Slice and Dice 100% of the time, there is no reason to make your combo point generation better. That's a flaw.

Excluding catform (mainly just a copy of Rogue), the only other damage-centric skill I can think of that cannot be increased through gear is Execute (does +damage help Hammer of Wrath?). But it's a % life based restriction that is spammable. More rage generation = better Execute potential. Nothing that scales ever makes Eviscerate/Rupture better.