Originally Posted by
zurm
I agree with your first point, but the second I'm going to disagree with. Do NOT use mangle, or any on-gcd single target during ROTS unless you are only fighting a single target. The leech and extra damage to abilities makes this a VERY bad decision. You are MUCH more survivable spamming swipe + thrash in an aoe situation when ROTS is up (the exception here of course being if you ALSO took Incarn and are fighting 2-4 targets, then mangle would be the best option). If you are in desperate need of rage, using a GG proc is your better option, since it generates so much more rage in a GCD (and with a ton of targets, it's constantly proccing). Also note that brambles DOES in fact proc GG: easy way to test (which I've done repeatedly on beta) is to proximity pull a mob with brambles and GG talented. Eventually the mob will hit you and proc moonfire on itself.
In regards to your war on brambles... we really have plenty of rage as it is, without the additional rage from the thrash talent; at least, if you take GG, which is the correct answer 90%+ of the time. Contrary to what you said, brambles DOES scale with number of targets... in fact it scales perfectly with more targets, where as blood frenzy can reach a cap where you generate too much rage that you can't use to any real effect (there is severely diminishing returns on additional armor). The extra rage would go to maul which can hit one target. In any kind of AoE situation (ie dungeons) where you're fighting a bunch of mobs at once, the defensive AND offensive benefit of brambles far outweighs the other two options, IMO. This is especially true on dungeons with mob packs that are "swarms" of little adds, like the globules in Eye of Ashara, or spider/imp packs in Vault of the Wardens. And while solo/questing, nothing compares to brambles, because it almost completely negates the damage of most mobs.