Quote Originally Posted by xod View Post
I worry that making a rotation so complex, and hitting more than one dps point, flank, behind, in the same rotation, could lead to getting killed by aoe. mine isn't really that complicated.

I do touch of death, dragon kick, twin snakes, demolish.. and here's the scandalous part.. dragon kick again, true strike, snap punch. that's the first rotation.. they all start with dragon kick.. well besides the original touch of death.

second rotation, is dragon kick, twin snakes, snap punch, dragon kick, true strike demolish, fracture. and that's basically it. keeping gs3 up and reapplying the 3 dots when they're about to go down. keeping demolish and fracture right after each other is nice I've found, because they both have around the same dot time and touch of death drops right after i apply the first fracture, and usually every two demolish, fracture reapplies.

I like simplicity. i may at some point try and add some behind stuff, but meh, i prefer it simple.
you should really take advantage of some back skill like BS/true strike/ID.BS is a 100% crit chance so its a really good skill to use as much as you can.you should use DK rotation,then BS then DK,like that your DK debuff is always up and you can use BS that always crit.you say you use true strike,why use true strike on flank?you gain a 5% crit chance from the back so take advantage of it.ID is a really hight potency skill,even if it dont crit,it do pretty good dmg.

its not hard to use both position.DK-twin-snap(all flank) then mouve back (BS-true strike(or ID-ID) mouve to flank and snap,go back to flank rotation with DK-twin-snap(between those are just an exemple of 3 skill rotation of back/flank combo.i didnt mention DOT since there no position bonus.).overall you are 80% of the time on flank and go behind for BS/true strike/ID only.you will have a way better dps if you take advantage of those back position skill and its not hard at all.for being more dangerous to get hit by aoe its not at all, exept for some boss that do aoe from behind or demon wall in AK but that the only exeption where you should use flank only.

simple rotation from flank can work but your far from max potential of your class.