This is a good article for keeping us rogues motivated to do our abolute best that we can! As many have already stated, it's saddening to see us falling behind the ranged and cleaving melee classes on a lot of fights, though I think combat rogues, to me so far, seem to fare better in certain heroic encounters with Blade Flurry.

Speaking of which that leads me to a question I'd like to ask of the Rogue community here (especially Chase, if you happen to catch this!). My tricks partner in raids (combat spec) pulls a fair bit more damage than I do (assassination) on 3 of the 5 heroic raid encounters we've downed so far (Halfus, Magmaw & Maloriak). Additionally, last week's Encrypted Text pointed out the fact that our upcoming 2-piece set bonus on T12 will be a larger dps increase for combat than for assassination. Even on heroic Chimaeron I'm barely pulling ahead of him much of the time becuase, despite being hit capped and maintaining my uptime and positioning fairly well on that fight, the bugger still manages to dodge a number of my mutiliates, ruptures and envnoms. Should I therefore be considering returning to a combat spec?

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