Mutilate and ExpertiseFollow

As a mutilate raiding rogue I find meeting caps something that I try to aspire.
I have already exceeded my poison hit cap of 315 and I'm finding it pretty easy to keep it there while getting gear upgrades from naxx.

However my expertise seems to be lacking, espeically from getting raid gear.
My old crafted epics and heroic dungeon drops provided a nice boost in expertise and each new epic I get takes chunks away from my rating.

The itemisation in wotlk seems very odd for rogues, lets just hope and see what ulduar brings :S

Obviously without the boost from combat spec I'm missing out dodged and parried attacks and I've considered gemming an option.
Messing around with the spreadsheet replacing every +16 agility gem with expertise actually shows a decrease in dps and I think
it would just be best to leave it where it is.

What are you thoughts on capping expertise and are you capped?





Edited, Feb 14th 2009 6:06pm by Jepetto

I try to keep fairy decent lvl of expertise. It works for me.

As for poison cap, there is no point going higher than 200ish as Mut.

I am at 19 expertise and spreadsheet still shows slight up in dps over 32AP gems, which for me are better than 16agil.



Edited, Feb 14th 2009 7:34pm by Elustriel

I second that, my poison damage is a huge chunk of damage out put and putting a fair few points into talents to improve poisons would be wasted without them hitting.

In response to the other posts my rating isn't too bad at the moment, its currently at 17 however with a few needed upgrades it will drop.
I will be replacing Trollwoven Spaulders (-28 exp) with T7.5 and also Hemorrhaging Circle (-33 exp) with either strong handed ring, surege needle or invincibility. All which give either hit or no exp.
Maybe I'll have to start gemming for it then, but I'll consult the spread sheet.

243 or so hit rating IS needed to reach poison hit cap with 5/5 precision and either a shadow priest or boomkin in your raid.

If you're alliance you only need about 216 because of the Draenei racial.

Edited, Feb 19th 2009 1:20pm by Bigdaddyjug