Enhance: Moderate vs Double Attack

[MightyThor]

Question:What's better for group MTing and raid support (not for raid MT)? 5 points into Enhance: Moderate (giving a total hate reduction of ~48% on a single target) or getting the Double Attack (9% double at tack chance) ability?I'm currently specced with 5 points into Enhance: Moderate and it's nice to stick it on an annoying Warlock but it doesn't leave me enough points to get Double Attack.Thanks.

[Wilin]

If you're not tanking, you should probably be trying to DPS as high as possible or help others DPS as high as possible. It comes down to which one would increase DPS on encounters more. Your 9% double attack or your warlock's extra damage possible due to more hate reduction. That's a hard one to nail down, but my guess would be the extra hate reduction on the warlock would get more DPS bang than your 9% double attack.

[vatorman99]

Go with Moderate man, your squishies will love you <img src="/smilies/8a80c6485cd926be453217d59a84a888.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />

[Yourbestfriend]

Get double attack - anyone that tells you different is a [Removed for Content].

[Yourbestfriend]

Btw I'm back!

[Docimodo]

<p>I'd agree with Jaraxx.</p><p>The left side of slaughtering plus dbl atk is just too good for it not to be the first thing you get. </p><p>What else would you want beyond 21points in slaughtering? well... if I were an offtank:</p><p>I'd personally go for either the beginning two skill debuffs in the cripple line to get that mob debuffed down hard and then probably throw the next lot of points into reaching the extend duration of obliterate. thatd leave a few points to throw at decrease reuse of intercede (an ability that is getting a very nice boost soon) or perhaps throw some into increased dps reduction of cripple plus the decreased riposte damage ability!</p><p>If your MT is losing aggro enhanced moderate wont help at all as there will be someone else in line for death! and anyway this way if someone in your group does get aggro stonesphere sentrywatch and interede as well as ppl having chances to avoid and sustain ontop of that will make even a squishy a viable tank for a pretty good long time <img src="/smilies/69934afc394145350659cd7add244ca9.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Wilin]

Definitely Double Attack if you're gonna be MTing. I'd still say moderate if you're one of those mysterious non-tanking guards.

[JKhanh24]

While Moderate is nice for placing on Squshies, it serves very little purpose in a raid if your not MT. Double attack is like many have said, too good to past up ! The 9% may not seem like a big difference, but its IMO Money !

[Wilin]

<p>I guess it depends on whether all your DPS classes can go full burn constantly. I know some DPS that would send monthly checks in the mail for an extra 12% hate reduction and they'd assassinate someone for not giving it to them just so a non-tanking guard could have an extra 75 or so DPS. But, again, we're talking about this mythical non-tanking guard. <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p>

[Kasar]

<cite>JKhanh24 wrote:</cite><blockquote>While Moderate is nice for placing on Squshies, it serves very little purpose in a raid if your not MT. Double attack is like many have said, too good to past up ! The 9% may not seem like a big difference, but its IMO Money ! </blockquote>Moderate does the same thing whether it's cast by the MT or anyone else, it's just a flat reduction to the target, no hate transfer or any other silliness.  It IS limited by group though.So, the dps is probably better, if your the OT, you're not likely to have the real dps classes in your group, so moderate's probably not real valuable.