Warchief Tyrandor wrote:
1600 atk unbuffed seem very beastly - I don't have anywhere near that since I'm focusing on pvp (i.e STA) a lot, I'm actually a bit surprised you're not hitting much harder then that...
Armory link?
He said he had about 1500ap unbuffed (1600 was his BS crit). As for the numbers, they seem very reasonable. I have 1520ap unbuffed and am using the same MH weapon as him (and a riftmaker in my OH for mute). I know when I was combat daggers my average, unbuffed BS crits on normal mobs were around where he's saying his are. I know as playing 41/20/0 my average mutilate crits are around what he's getting. Remember, unlike most posters who are like "yeah I usually ambush for like 4.2k," you know because that one time during a solar eclipse, when they had every buff avaliable, they managed to crit an ambush for that.
In any case, yes mutilate generally will outdamage BS by a decent amount crit vs crit. As far as sustained damage, both of your builds are generally good. On pure tank and spank fights combat daggers still has the potential to do more sustained damage mathematically (at the crit rates and gear levels avaliable to us right now). However, 41/20/0 is a sustained damage build... it's quite good for raiding. On a damage per energy basis, mutilate generally does still outdamage BS even with the crit boost BS gets. It also generates more CP. However, it does do better at higher crit levels as we saw at level 60 (when 41/0/10 was beating 15/31/5 in raids). At lower crit levels, CD might be a better choices (but is boring as hell :/).