Prot: To rend or not to rend?

[Sylviane]

I rend when either a) there is some sort of air phase (Sindragosa) or b) a tank swap fight, where I'll throw it before I taunt to help keep me over the threshhold.

[Dominic42]

I rend when either a) there is some sort of air phase (Sindragosa) or b) a tank swap fight, where I'll throw it before I taunt to help keep me over the threshhold.

As has been said many times before, using that one GCD before an air phase to cast devastate/SS/revenge instead will always be more threat. Your second point is the only situation I can think of where rend is more threat because you used the GCD before taunting to do it.

[Senor Blackmetal]

Meh, obviously it's your call. Rend really doesn't help a ton, but hell... if for some odd reason you have the extra GCD, why not? A little bit of something is better than nothing at all.

[staart]

Meh, obviously it's your call. Rend really doesn't help a ton, but hell... if for some odd reason you have the extra GCD, why not? A little bit of something is better than nothing at all.

Which is never, unless you didn't spec into devastate.

[Kysimir]

Yeah but sorry I started leveling my 1st toon (warrior) in BC and the 1st rule of warriors was - no rending

Screw the minor increase...rend is horrid

Actually, if you manage to keep a 75%+ uptime, then rend comes out to about a 2.2% DPS increase at 16k DPS.

[Shelly]

One thing I should have mentioned though. Rend probably isn't going to hurt you too much, just make sure you don't have that stupid add-on that proclaims you've managed to put rend on a raid/world boss.