how effective is Eye Rake

[CosmicAcidGu]

<DIV>Has anyone done some testing how effective Eye Rake is? It's hard to see a difference just by looking at numbers scrolling by. And I know there are some parse freaks out there.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Finnster</DIV>

[Spice-uh-nat]

<P>well from my experiences from soloing anything blue and below, while Eye Rake/Eye Gouge is affecting my target, I normally get hit twice AT MOST the entire 36 seconds, and then hit battle fury/bob and weave/whatever you have to keep avoid up for the next 24 seconds</P>

[Laha]

I thought it was  20% to mob accuracy.  Maybe it was gouge that was 20%.  Still thats pretty good if ya ask me.

[Ronin]

It actually doesn't lower thier accuracy, but instead it lowers the skill for slashing, piercing and crushing. Also from what I've seen of the Gouge and rake, they do almost the same thing,  Both lower the 3 skills for your target by 20 points, or effectively takes them down 4 levels for melee effectiveness. Put it this way, If I eye gouge a lvl43 Construct of thule in Feerrott they go from hitting me almost constant to missing me about 2 out of 4 swings, and I'm only lvl40. This skill works on Epic mobs as well, making a huge impact on its effectiveness. Also, from visual side I'd say this runs closer to 60 seconds or the complete recycle time of the skill, cause I see the same string of hit/miss up till its right at recycled then they start hitting me more again.  Not tested to prove this and no spell icon in either spell window to show it either. But I'm almost possitive cause of visualy watching my incoming dmg. <div></div>