And he seems to be back to assassination with his 522
. I'll stand corrected that he's been running combat through the tier, but I'd also assume he's had decent/better weapons for combat and the 4p since week one. That said... I'm still not sure what you're trying to argue. That combat
is keeping up with assassination before we're near-BiS (~530 gear) on a single target, that Assassin's Resolve is responsible for assassination being ahead due to synergy with +% damage done (your original argument), or...?
I haven't said at any point that combat is terrible, just that, in normal gear, for 99.9% of us, assassination is ahead both mechanically (for non-cleave) and in practice on single target, assuming similar weapons, and is likely to surpass every other class in the game, in addition to combat. Any short trip to WoLogs should show that.
Edit: went back and caught the line "let's not talk about normals" - so we'll stick exclusively to heroic rogues, but I think the world top 100 is still not representative, especially since this thread started directed at normal mode raiding.
Edit 2: WoLogs finally has rankings up for the first 6 heroics, and for everyone running public logs,
assassination is still ahead on every fight with the possible exception of Megaera/Council (who only have 1/5 combat rogues), where blade flurry can be used - in other words, it's
not single target, which is what I mentioned earlier; cleave is still combat territory.