Short reply because my time is limited today:
Tyr, within a week of joining my guild's raiding progress, I was top DPS. This is over rogues with better gear than mine, warriors with better gear than mine, and locks with better gear than mine. This comes down to I'm better at my class than they are; there's no way you can get around that. I'm not trying to brag, but those are the facts. I also got to 2100 this past arena season (granted post 3.0, but we all know how hard it was to pass ret teams, especially as feral/rogue).
To everyone commenting on DPS and how I shouldn't talk about Naxx having not been there:
LOL.
I was in Naxx two and a half years ago!
Either way, DPS is about theorycrafting. It requires no experience except that you have knowledge of how fight mechanics work and how the mechanics of the talents work.
Since I know all of those things, I can accurately crunch numbers and give advice based on gear, fight, and spec.
I apologize if my disposition isn't always sunshine and puppies, but I'm here to help out the class as much as I can, and for me, that's helping with theorycrafting. It's what I do best.
Feel free to sub-default posts of mine that deserve it. I take no offense. But you should listen to my views on DPS, because I know what I'm talking about when it comes to game mechanics. I was in bleeding-edge content in the das of Naxx/AQ40, and I helped my guild out by boosting our rDPS so to make ROS easier and help show the other rogues in the guild how they could to slightly better in DPS to push out that last 200-300 DPS that they were missing. Again I say that not to brag, but to show my credentials of where I'm coming from.
Regardless what you guys think, PvE is a scripted event with predictable variables. Granted, it's a
really ******* cool scripted event with predictable variables, but it is nonetheless. It's possible to say "this is the DPS you should be able to obtain on this fight with this gear and this spec, and you'd do more DPS with this spec", and if it's possible, I will always be the harshest critic, because some people need that to understand that they're not playing to their limits.
If you take my criticism with a grain of salt (or a helping of "lol it's Theo" as the rogue forums have), you'll be just fine, I promise.
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