A little depressingFollow

What kind of attack are you referring to, SS, Backstab(I hope not), or hemo?

I would say in PvP gear...proabably not. In PvE gear, I would say it would depend on what kind of gear you have. My SS's raid buffed crit for around 2.0 - 2.4k, non-buffed for around 1400-1800.

I'm slightly ahead of you PVE gear-wise Nocturnal, and my auto-attacks hit for around 400, SS for 500-600 with crits as high as 1400.

The difference between the 2 is as long as you're alive you can sit there and spam auto-attacks and SS, whereas eventually that mage is going to run out of mana.

Yes, at level 70 mages can throw out a 1500 dmg non-crit fireball, but in the 2-2.5 seconds it takes them to cast that you will auto-attack MH for 400, auto-attack OH for 200, and SS for 500.

This is the reason for your low Sinister Strikes. Unbuffed my AP is in the 1700's, buffed in the 2000-2500 range. AP raises your top-end damage, thus resulting in higher attacks/crits.

Don't be discouraged, as your gear is upgraded(kara/badge gear), you will see a significant increase in your damage output.

Edited to fix a quote.

Edited, Feb 25th 2008 9:09am by Salwrathis

I did a pretty good job at guessing the approximations of my stats :

AP - 1178
Hit - 144
Crit - 19.11%

unbuffed

Awesome. I get excited with anything about 1k let alone 2800 (even though I think the most is around 1800-2000, that I've gotten). lol

It's impractical to compare mage damage spells with rogue instant abilities.

Why?

All mage damage comes from individual damage spells they cast, where a majority of rogue damage comes from white damage.

You probably already know this, but looking at your armory link, the Crystalline Kopesh is a pretty weak MH. One of the higher-level "of the Bandit" swords would almost certainly give you a big damage boost. They're not incredibly common, but keep checking the AH and see if you can pick one up.

I see you've got the S1 offhand already, which is a good start for your overall damage (but won't affect your instant attacks, obviously). If you get the S1 mainhand too, it will give you a far bigger damage boost than any other gear upgrade - it's about 50% higher DPS than the Crystalline Kopesh, and the increase in base damage is even higher. If it's going to take you some time to get the 18k honor, try to pick up a lvl 69/70 Bandit sword for a cheap short-term boost.

Yeah I already knew it. =P. I've been working on honor as of late to get the S1 MH. Once I do that, I'm going to quest and daily for some moola and get mats for Mongoose for both.

But I've calculated how much honor I need to get if I decide to go after all PVP gear (even though I wouldn't be PVPing much in the first place, probably will get the chest or something so I can at least start some Kara runs or something), but for all PVP equipment, I'd need to earn about 77k honor, which doesn't seem as bad as the original 130k that I had calculated.

I do want to run some stuff to get the Abacus and Hourglass as well, but that's on the backburner right now. Luckily for me though, We won the two AVs I was in yesterday, plus the bonus daily. Will be running more tonight, only about 10k more honor until I can get the sword lol. I've only been running a few days, maybe twice per day. That's why it's taking some time. But I'm in no rush, just enjoying everything.

I'm getting there. Slowly but surely.

Edited, Feb 28th 2008 7:57am by xNocturnalSunx

Yeah, I'll be glad to have two "purples" under myself (even if they're just my weapons). I've got to get rid of those silly green gloves though lol.

Considering his armory, I'd say that's reasonable.

Count the seconds it takes your mage to fire off a pyro and then a fireblast, etc.

Now take those seconds and countdown with your rogue's attack sequence and compare the damage.