Itemizing for Mutilate in the ArenaFollow

I know by this title alone that I can expect to be flamed for this. I already know that since the skies parted and blizzard descended from the heavens and gifted the rogue with cheat death mitigating so much damage that most rogues are going to say "WTF? Spec shadowstep or GTFO." Well, I've weighed the talents against one another and have found that on the whole, Assassination talents are very balanced against those in the subtlety tree.

All in all mutilate's playstyle just seems more fun. It was at one point a viable arena build and I think puncturing wounds has resurrected mutilate from being gimped by resilience. I used to do raiding, but I'm more interested in PVP and arena's. However my lack of experience in that realm has made it difficult to determine what stats to get for a dagger build as opposed to swords. Do you still get dual mongoose enchants, mongoose and executioner, or do you get +agi to weapons for more consistency?

I'm speccing as 41/0/20
and I'll have a resto druid for my two's partner. I'm thinking armor penetration might be more helpful, so I hope that explains my talent choices as I'll probably try to stack that as often as I can. I already know Theo's going to complain I don't have Imp Kidney Shot, and if that talent would help do more damage than Serrated Blades then I'll move it. However, I think I picked up most of the other important talents. Finally, if you can give me a reason why mutilate just won't work no matter how much you itemize, I'll consider your answer and just forget speccing this way altogther.


Edited, Apr 6th 2008 4:43am by FelRogue

44/0/17 if you're going sub-heavy.

53/0/8 or 49/0/12 if you're not.

Anyone that doesn't get double mongoose is a *********

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