Originally Posted by
Devlin-
Spot on, this is my thought process as well atm. I spent the majority of the time on the first boss rerolling rtb, with a total of 27 casts on the first kill. I seriously did not get either TB or SiW in the first 13 casts, which gave me an astonishingly bad feeling. My buffs went as follows:
BT, GM, JR, BS, GM, GM+BT (full duration), GM, BS, JR, BT, BT, BS.
I did catch up later on, getting a single SiW which I kept into a TB which finally got me rolling on the meters. Ended in 3rd place at 220k dps. But it made me question the validity of running outlaw on progression. Then again, you could just as well get a 6 roll by roughly the same chance as getting as unlucky as I did early on. RNG is RNG. Getting a bad streak at the end of a fight sub 20% could be the difference between a kill and a wipe, and it's out of your hands. Not sure I like it that way.
Looking at wcl, it dawns on me that ranking will become skewed to such a dramatic degree that in a few months time, all you'll see in the top are 6-rollers, making ranking basically worthless for any form of gaging of player performance.
If the top end of both assassination and outlaw are somewhat close to each other, reaching the top tier performance will be much more in the hands of the player as asssassination than it will outlaw, which is much more in the hands of RNG.
With quite a few bosses being single target or with the occasional bursting down adds (not really caring about il'gynoth slimes bf padding, although it's not unimportant), assassination is looking temping.