Enjchanter try thinking about it this way: there is really only one variable here, damage. Ratio will generally be proportional to the difficulty of obtaining an item, so you can pick high damage/high delay or low damage/low delay, but not high damage/low delay. Since backstab is more important than the damage bonus, the best choice is the high damage/high delay weapon. This makes all of the fast, low damage TOV weapons pretty worthless, with one little wrinkle: if the target has very high AC most of your backstabs will be for the minimum anyway. This will not happen while leveling, though.
I remember a conversation with Koraf when he was making his Rampage Velious wishlist. He was a little annoyed after he realized that the primary accounted for 80% of all rogue damage. Since the secondary does so little damage, Ragebringer's +ATK is more important than the improved ratio of other Velious weapons. So once you get either a Vulak or Tunare dagger you're basically done.
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