Hemo Rogue AdviceFollow

Thanks to the last 2 posters, some useful/interesting info there :) If i could rate up i would.

One thing that i've heard and i was conserned about was long fights/elite mobs... from what i can see, hemo/ghostly strike build seems to be the best way to go for those, the added damage from Hemo would easy be used up, especially in instance bosses etc...

If i'm killing a mob in 10 secs, i don't really care about the details, so grinding isnt my main consern as when leveling i'm usually doing instances/quests rather than all out grinding... I can accept that combat may always be the best way to go... but i want somthing fun to play as well as useful and impressive.

I think i'll probably go full Sub/Assasin now that i think about it.. Sub seems to be a good way to get that High AP for Hemo with the Deep Talents like Sinister Calling and (the 10% AP one).

Oh, and one more thing; it's a personal rant of mine. Stop using weapon speed as a criteria for the main hand! You want a high base damage in the main hand and while a high base damage is usually associated with a slower weapon speed, the speed is not the crucial or primary factor. You get no bonus for a slow weapon.

Thank you for bearing with me, we now return to our regularly scheduled program.

Trust me, when the mob still requires an extra hit to kill, chances are that mob would still require an extra hit to kill regardless of the presence of the Hemo debuff. Its not that big of a increase considering SS adds a flat 98 damage every time. Hemo doesn't shine on short fights, still a low increase considering the first 3 tiers of Sub doesn't add much to DPS.

So does the end tier of Combat and Assassination for that matter. The point is that for solo play, specs outside of daggers (excluding Mut) is irrelevant to effectiveness.

There is a threshold before Hemo overtakes SS, I'll defer to mahlerite for what exactly that is as he has more experience with the spec than I do.

The problem with hemo is not that it isn't efficient, dpe wise, it's that a SS build(read full combat) will have combat potency. And while your 14 hemos may outdam the 12 SS, the SS build will have generated enough energy to, well, SS 4-5 more times. So while at 1st glance you may think you'll generate more cps than combat, it's actually the other way around(by a large margin). This is why combat outdamages hemo builds by 10-15%, now in a raid situation, trispec hemo can make up that dps and maybe a little bit more with the hemo buff, but the margin is fairly small.