the once and future Spangles

[Skandranon]

According to a friend the crits I may have been seeing and connecting to rend may have been white damage crits prior to the attack rather than a crit from applying rend. I'll still try to do some tests tonite to see what I come up with.

Aside from that I still don't agree that rend is vastly inefficient for rage purposes and it may just be chalked up to individual playstyle.
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Just like Mortal Strike, Rend is an "instant" attack that is unconnected to your white damage. The benefit is that it doesn't eat your white swing the way HS does, and so is pretty good rage-wise. You still get one more white swing by pressing Rend instead of HS.