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Threat building strats?
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shizreborn
I gree with using revenge first, but only if you have to use your rage efficiently. If you are on a boss that pretty much lets you have infinite rage, then shield slam should be first.
The thing with different TPS is some bosses have more mitigation than others making you generate less threat. Or you might just have bad luck.
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Arideni
I would like to add in that your strategy is working fine. Timing your Revenge was a good topic to discuss. Revenge is one of the best threat building moves, but it's reactionary as you know. That said, you almost always want to take Shield Slam first because of it's normally higher threat values...just as Shizreborn said. If you're in a low-rage situation where management is key then obviously Revenge would come first. You can easily think of it as threat-per-second vs. threat-per-rage situations.
With the new Devastate changes, it sounds like you're really trying to take advantage of this newly changed mechanic & that's great. I want to add to this a little. As far as Revenge is concerned, it should always come at a higher priority than Devastate when tanking. This is because of the threat changes since 2.1 you will hit a harder Revenge than you will Devastate (remember, your threat is
very
dependant on your damage as well).
The reasoning behind this is that Devastate scales with gear & Revenge does not...it will always deal higher threat via weapon damage than Devastate. Think of it like this: Devastate's damage (and thusly threat from damage) is throttled by the fact it only deals 50% of weapon damage. Devastate does not have enough innate threat to overpower Revenge.
The state of current itemization leads us to believe there will never be a time when Devastate deals higher total threat than Revenge (presuming equal ranks are used & in tanking gear).
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