Spreadsheet and hit ratingFollow

Spreadsheets are nothing more than number estimates based on your own character, so you're always going to run in to differences between characters (and what people think everyone else should have, forgetting no one else is exactly like themselves) because until late into WotlK you're unlikely to have the same exact gear, enchants, and gems as the Rogue sitting next to you. Some changes, even a change you would eyeball to be exceptionally large, may not change your DPS much or even at all. The only thing a spreadsheet does is allow you to improve yourself based off of assumptions that you tell the tiny little math wizard living in your computer.




Spreadsheets (at least the one I have) take in to consideration what poisons you have on what hands. Also, you have it the other way around. Hardcore Rogues who want to flat out min/max their DPS will want the faster dagger in their MH if both weapons have similar DPS. The idea is to put Instant Poison on your faster weapon and Instant should be on your MH ever since they patched the double poison bug (where your OH attack on Mutilate had a chance to double-proc your poison).

Someone is free to correct me if I'm wrong, but that's the general consensus I see. Someone said it best, but I forgot who said it or where I saw it: playing around with theorycrafting is no substitution for warcrafting. You can use spreadsheets all you want, but spreadsheeting should only be a supplement to your real-time hands-on testing.

I don't know about the IP/IP thing, because you lose out on Envenom. Not just the armor-ignoring damage, but also the debuff after the fact that increases your poison procs by another 15%. That's one of the biggest things I see people forgetting about when comparing Envenom and Eviscerate.

There's been a lot of math to back it up.