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41/20/0 Is really fun! Last night my new little casual guild did ZA and we beat the timer on bear boss. I did 850 DPS on bear with Mutilate combat on my fairly new 70 alt Shoninjai. I was combat swords but I just find it way to boring solo for some reason so I decided to pick up the Mutilater offhand for 45 badges (All I had on that toon since she is new) and give it a try.

Observations:

My white damage is pretty dang good.
Combo point heaven. It's really easy to keep up 5pt rupture and slice and dice. I had so many combo points I even threw in some evicerates becuase rupture timer was so fresh.
On long boss fights and tough trash it's a fun build. On easy trash like Kara sometimes I ended up with wasted combo points becuase the trash died to dang fast. I was getting 1500+ Mutilates on both hands at times with drums up (so 3000+ total) which is fun for big number syndrome. :)
With our bear tank and no salv I was pushing the threat cap a bit a times and did vanish once mid fight to drop agro on bear boss.

Now I know Combat swords will outdamage it a bit. I'm not debating that. But for me even with offhand energy return I was not nearly as efficient with keeping up SnD/R as combat swords with my current gear. I also know 850 DPS is not spectacular for hardcore t5/6 raiders. My hunter can push 1200 but I am bored with him atm. Besides I just like 10 mans becuase 25 mans are to slow and take to much set up time for my pref.

So if your a casual player like me and you want a viable 10 man build don't be scared to try out combat mutilate. You might find this mysterious thing happens called fun!

Commence flaming about gimping your raid by not being a boring cookie cutter...... :D

Funny you posted this, I was just working out a full raid spec for mutilate in WOTLK. I figured I'd let it slip when I noticed this thread...

http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=f0efoeMoiMohbsZ0eV0bEz0z

Seems pretty interesting to me. I just lack points, as usual... With just 11 more points you could pick Find Weakness, Opportunity and 2/2 Weapon Expertise.

It's crit heavy, but that's good in this case I reckon. Malice, Dagger spec and Turn The Tables put you on a whooping 16% crit pretty much permanent. Coupled with my rogue's gear this would be 33%, in season 1. I can see it moving near 50% in bad-*** gear O_o. Deadly Brew allows you to fight with 2X instant poison on your daggers and with such a high crit rating, focused attacks will see it's worth. Seeing combat's only getting Unfair Advantage and Prey On The Weak for raiding, I wonder if this could throw up some competition...

Edited, Aug 6th 2008 10:51pm by Mozared

No Find Weakness, no Imp Poisons, etc = fail.

http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=f0ecoeLoiMoA0oZ0eV0bEz0z

Those would be my changes, given your build. A 20% chance to proc IP and thus DP rather than FF and 2% damage is a rather large DPS increase, and Find Weakness versus Infectious Poisons/Focused Attacks is also quite a large DPS bump upwards.

It would still remain to be seen if BF/WEx/Dagger Spec will be more than a few more points in Assassination, though.

Cool link imano. That guy was busting 4500+ mutilates. That looked fun. I'm sure as my gear improves on this alt I will be able to push this spec up over the 1000's in DPS. I took it into BG's the first time last night and the burst is also very fun. ShS is definitly easier to play in some ways.

I tend to respec every few weeks or just go play another alt. I like variety.

Edited, Aug 7th 2008 7:32am by Shojindo

You may be right, of course, but I read it as any yellow attack. It's too bad that it's so hard to test that talent or I would.

Hmm... I'm going to assume it does. It's obviously a raid talent (it even mentions the word), and I suppose Blizzard will realize envenom and eviscerate suck in that field of play.