Rupture and APFollow

Mk, we all know Rupture>All for finishers in PvE. (In 99% of cases)

We also know that Rupture does additional damage in accordance with you AP as show by the following:




So with my 1741 AP unbuffed a 5pt Rupture should do 1417 over 16 seconds.

Now, my question is does the AP gained from items like my Shard of Contempt and my Shattered Sun Pendant of Might make a difference.

Example: When Shard of Contempt procs I have a total of 1971 AP. If I use rupture with pts while Shard of Contempt is proc'd will Rupture do 1417 Damage as it was without the proc included, or will it include the proc and do 1473 damage?

I don't really understand the damage per tic calculation, but does that happen at the very start when Rupture is used and then remain the same through out the duration, or does the tic damage calculate as it tics, and so it may change over the course of Rupture if my neck or my trinket proc'd in the middle of it.

EDIT: Reread the forumla and figured out what I was doing wrong on the Tic Damage. For a 5pt Rupture the tics should be doing 177 damage each tic over 8 tics without any AP procs. Using the same example of 1971 AP after the proc would it do 184 damage per tic over 8 tics.

Further, if I started out and popped off a 5pt rupture with no procs up(1741 AP) and after 3 tics I had something proc bringing me to 1971 AP would the damage from tics go as follows?

177->177->177->184->184->184->184->184

END EDIT

So my overall question I guess would be if it was worth it to interupt your cycle slightly(nothing big like skipping a rupture or something) to get the extra DPS out of popping rupture when you have an AP boost like from Trinkets, Shaman Talent, Battle Shout etc...

I realize that this isn't the most important of things for maxing out our DPS, and it won't factor in much of the time. But its been nagging at me so I figured why not ask and start up some discussion since the Rogue fourms are looking kinda dead right now.

Thanks in advance for helping to satisfy my curiosity,

Edited, Jun 25th 2008 1:51am by GodOfMoo

So the damage and damage per tic are calculated when Rupture is cast?

Thank you mucho, that has been nagging me for the longest time.

This is why you try and save your ruptures for when mongoose is up.

It's also why you pop trinkets prior to rupturing; if you pop them during the SnD part of your cycle, you're a ******.