3.1 for Combat Rogues

My both characters are finally copied onto the PTR and showing in the characters list, so I’ve decided to do some short testing. What lies ahead is certainly not an extensive excercise in theorycrafting, as I just don’t do these. But still a bit of numbers for people to consider. Both tests were about two minutes long, and I’ve used all the cooldowns I could, with no buffs other than the poisons (wound on MH, deadly on OH), and no debuffs from other people on the target. Both targets were of course level 83 boss dummies.

If you want some l33t numbers, go to the EJ forums and read through the 30 or so pages of whining there. And the other specs will maybe come later on, when I get some more free time and farm some herbs on the PTR. Fortunately I have my own Scribe there, so I don’t have to buy glyphs from the AH for 300 (and more) gold pieces per glyph.

First, the live realm.

Now the PTR one. Unfortunately the Exodar training dummies are too close to each other, so I lost some dps from Killing Spree there by doing some damage to the other ones. That wasn’t an issue in Ironforge where I did the live test, but on PTR there were too many people unloading on the things, so I’ve decided to go where nobody wants to go. :]

That’s 700 dps more with the same spec, not a bad buff at all. Overall damage is a bit higher thanks to the Savage Combat buff, but the difference in poison damage is what makes all the difference. With this and a full set of raid buffs I expect good things to happen. :]