Maul vs. Lacerate

I have seen a few posts on this recently so I thought I would put in my 2 cents. I won’t be dealing with Mangle here as I treat this as a Secondary Threat Ability, you use it when its off cool down.

First let’s look at the Mechanics. (http://www.wowwiki.com/Threat)

Maul has a static threat of 322 at a cost of 10 Rage.
Lacerate has an upfront 285 threat at a cost of 13 Rage.

Now when you look at this you think lacerate is terrible. There are other considerations though.

Maul is an "On next attack" ability. This means that Maul converts your next white attack to a Yellow Attack. Lacerate is an "Additional" attack. You get your normal white attack as well as the Lacerates Yellow Attack. It also no longer matters if the target is Bleed Immune as the majority of threat is up front.

Based on this, if you use Lacerate as the Primary Attack, you will generate a lot more Rage which will allow you to keep up the Mangles and even Rage dump the Maul's.

Razor

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