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08-11-2010, 11:59 PM
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Backstab Dmg or Ratio?
Level 30 Rogue. I currently use a Polished Steel Dirk (8/23)with a Burning Rapier (7/20) in my offhand, should I drop overall ratio of the PSD for a Gloomwater Harpoon (9/31) for more backstab damage? Or, a third option, move my BR to my mainhand for even less backstab damage and put an Electrum Bladed Waki (7/21) in my offhand?
To simplifiy.. Option 1. PSD / BR Option 2. Gloompoon / BR Option 3. BR / EBW Option 4. You tell me :P | ||
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Last edited by Lowlife; 08-12-2010 at 12:11 AM..
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08-12-2010, 01:53 AM
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08-12-2010, 02:37 AM
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PSD/BR will be the best of those in the most situations. Gloompoon/BR or Gloompoon/PSD will be slightly better in cases where you've got jacked str and a good tank to hold aggro, but we all know that rogues either end up backstabbing early and tanking or backstabbing late - either way you're missing out on stabs and the PSD is a much better mainhand weapon than the gloompoon when there's no stabs going on.
I don't have my parses handy to back this up but I did test it out around level 40ish in SolB with gamparse. At any rate, you'll have an eyerazzia soon enough so don't sweat it too much.
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08-12-2010, 02:52 AM
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Backstab was calculated to be about 40% of a rogues dps. the psd is definitely better
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08-12-2010, 11:09 AM
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It varies, if you're fighting mobs your level or higher go with PSD. With lower level mobs you have a significantly higher hit chance so the GP will land larger BS's on a regular basis which could offset the lost standard damage.
For all around though option 1 should hold you over. | ||
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09-12-2010, 06:06 PM
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so how about PSD for regular swings and swapping GH for the backstab attack only?
you might lose a swing or 2 from the PSD but if you don;t bag agro from the backstab would this be more damage? i have no way to check if this would work as my rogue is only level 5 but would be interesting to see what you guys thought | ||
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