Originally Posted by
Buraan
Exactly this, I think it is just a stop-gap for mechanics like execute. With the cdr trinket it means barkskin will have ~50% uptime (12/25.5 secs). Like was mentioned also, with the 2pc, it means that we can have quite amazing uptimes on SD, with 100% uptime for ~1.5 mins+ (depending on if you have the cdr trinket).
But the DoC change is interesting, but I'm still not sold on it 100%...yet. It will however devalue RoRo even more in the next patch, even for dps purposes if you pick DoC. The increased mangle crit will make DoC proc more often, but It will hardly make up for dps lost from the HT usage, and (as far as I know) the buff is still quite short. On the other hand, when I was testing the other day, the HTs are HUGE, almost like LoH.