Mutilate rotationFollow

Hey, I'm a pve muti rogue, and in the same boat, enjoy Mutilate too much to spec out of it.

On bosses, I try to keep a 3 SnD and 5 rupture rotation going (this is without the two set bonus from T4). Seal fate and ruthlessness can make it a bit tricky, but I've found with Puncturing wounds, its made it a bit more stable/reliable. My optimal attack sequence is Muti-> SnD-> Muti-> Muti-> Rupture... rinse repeat.

As to SnD's importance, I'm almost certain that it's important. The majority of your damage still comes from white attacks, so SnD is a great asset in boosting your white damage. Of course you don't get the benefits of combat potency, but you still get poison procs, and mongoose procs from the SnD bonus.

I read somewhere that there is a point where Eviscerate overtakes Rupture based on your AP and crit, but Rupture is almost always the better choice (Please correct me if I'm wrong, don't have time to go digging atm). And envenom, I only ever use envenom when the boss (or trash) is about to die, something about losing more DPS while you re-stack your 5 deadly poisons.

Hope this helps.



Edited, Apr 17th 2008 5:24am by Tuloch

Don't use envenom, there is really never a time it is better than Rupture.

Yes SnD is very important always have it up.

And now, go with the rotation the spreadsheet says.

General Mut rotation is 2-3s/4-5r.

It's pretty hard to judge, because of Seal Fate.

I did the Ogrilla prereqs last night and I used the 2-4 SnD/4-5 Rupture and I was doing quite well. The key is to time your SnD and then get enough energy to get your Rupture points built up before Find Weakness fades, that way rupture benefits from it, even after it is gone.

On bosses, yes. On trash - no.
3-4s4r is my usual rotation...until you get your 2pT4 SnD bonus, then you drop to 1-2s4r.

Damn son, 5200 is a nice number. I'm lucky critting 3200 on trash 5pt envenom.

for levelling i go 42/0/X (whatever points i have) and take advantage of opportunity and setup for extra combo points. usually do a fight CS -> Mut -> wait for ~70 energy -> KS -> double Mut. if anything is left wait 2-3 seconds and eviscerate. its an easy kill and you only take like 3 hits a fight.

for raids, if your just pve, you should go 41/20 for dual wield. the DW bonus is huge for your dps. you should open with ambush or garrote, use 1 mutilate to get around 3 CP and use SnD, then double mut and rupture. i found it hard to keep 3/4 up all the time, but i came close to it.

if your gonna pvp and pve, its up to you. i went 42/0/19 because i like the talents better for burst damage from the sub tree. i open ambush -> mut and have 4 CP and use SnD then, then just spam mut to get rupture up and change targets. I like to have some combination of either just DP, just rupture, or DP and rupture, on 3 mobs at a time. it does some amazing things for your DPS if you can get dots on 2-3 trash mobs at a time.
for pvp i go ambush -> mut -> KS -> seal fate -> mut and usually take most of the health outta something. its a fun spec to use, just make sure you know how to jump shot mutilate.

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