Quote Originally Posted by pythagoris View Post
All of that stuff gets removed when you start the fight, idk why you think that this stuff is going to get your logs pulled when people have been doing it for the last 4+ tiers. All this stuff is no more of an advantage than resetting a boss and having 5 combo points going into your first slice for the pull and that has never been something people have considered worthy of banning logs for. Quit talking out your ass while you are ahead.
The buffs arent removed once you enter combat. If you change specs yes, if you change gear or change trinkets _before_ you use the abilitys yes. Procc trinkets and rings however, does not get removed. Any One Use effect is removed but not proccs, hence the fruit basket-exploit that let you pre procc trinkets + 715 ring then change and keep the bonuses.

Having say 24 sec of 96% increased attackspeed over having 18 sec of 67% is a significant damage increase at pull, due to how cooldown stacking works.

From https://www.warcraftlogs.com/help/ranks/

Ranks will be removed when players use in-game exploits that include any buffs that should not be possible given the gear/talents/specs that players are locked into once in combat. In other words, a rank will always be considered invalid if any lingering bonuses from gear, talents or specs are used by a player once in combat. Gear swapping for unintended bonuses is always going to be considered an exploit by this site.
As you can see.