Shaolinz wrote:
Backstab does NOT have a major increased crit rating over mutilate people.
Mutilate is two attacks, and even a single mutilate crit pwns a BS crit.
At 30% crit strike, mutilate has a 55% chance of a single crit whereas backstab has a 60%. Do the math.
That's true. Mutilate scales very well with crit. However, I think I should point out that most people don't have 30% crit. Top end gear is focused more on AP and hit for raiding and stam/resiliance for PvP. Crit is still there obviously, however we lost a decent amount of our crit from 60->70. While you can gear yourself to have 30%+ crit, you do give up a lot of things (IE: hp, ap, etc..). The "crit" gear suits that you can make for that level of crit will be okay for PvE but will get eaten alive in PvE (IE: under 7k hp).
At 30% crit mute has a 51% chance to crit and BS has 60% crit. At 22% crit, mute has a 39% ish chance to crit, while BS has a 52% chance to crit. In either case, the crits are obviously nice. However, mute does decent base damage anyway... and also has best in class CP generation.
At any rate, mutilate will always crit less often than backstab.... it's just in the math. Anyone considering a mute build would be wise not to base the majority of their decision on BS vs Mute discussions. There is plenty more to a mute build than mute itself. You are, after all, putting 41 points into assassination to get the tallent.