The Rogue's Gallery

[Roland]

It doesn't matter how much you crit.  Dual weild will give more damage, more consistently than dagger spec.

It's tough to keep up your crit rate.  It increases at a rate of 1% crit per clvl/2 AGI.  At lvl 60 150 AGI is only 5% crit.  But it doesn't matter.  Your crit rate without dagger spec will be exactly 5% lower than with.  In other words you will crit at the same rate as you do now with a dagger if you weild a sword or mace.  That translates to 5% damage on average.  Dual weild spec translates to 16% damage on average 16 > 5.

There's one huge flaw with your argument: critical strikes with special attacks. Aside from the fact that I crit on a REGULAR basis (I NEVER go a fight without seeing at least half a dozen crits; I once counted 6 in a ROW, although the highest I've seen since is 4 - 5, not that I've been paying much attention to counting), a critical strike while pulling off a combo (via Eviscerate) is just sick. Not to mention a critical on combo builders (Sinsiter Strike regularly combos, and Eviscerate combos quite often; just imagine a critical on Backstab or Ambush!). 200 - 250 damage crits with 3-pt. Eviscerate happen about 5% - 10% of the time. Doesn't sound like often, but that's 1 in every 10 - 20 mobs. Think how long it takes you to chew through 20 mobs. For me, it's about 10 minutes, roughly, maybe even less. That's a significant damage addition, especially when doing instances.

I think I'll stick with Dagger Specialization for now, and see how it goes.