Why is Into the Fray better than Bloodshed for WW barb?

[Kindran-11838]

Rend can’t crit at all. It doesn’t matter how you apply it. Here is a post from SvR explaining more than you probably want to know about Rend.

@sVr-21743

Tested everything I could think of to test about rend. Here is the summary:

• Rend’s base duration is 6 seconds, not 5 (the tooltip is straight up incorrect).
• Rend’s selfcast damage is only calculated off mainhand. The off-hand can be any off-rolled weapon for supporting purposes (CDR, AD etc.). WW, and therefore Ambo’s, oscillates between mainhand and off-hand.
• Rend scales with CHC & CHD but CAN NOT crit.
  • Each Rend tick has (1 + CHC * CHD) as a separate multiplier.
  • Only CHC and CHD that you see in your detail sheet, will scale rend. Any debuff-CHC (Iceblink, Multishot, Corpse Lance, Bash, etc.) will not scale Rend.
  • Battler Rage:Bloodshed has 0 effect on/for Rend damage (except for the base rune crit), because Rend does not crit.
  • Battle Rage:Into the Fray does not have a cap, increases CHC in sheet and therefore works with Rend.
• A Rend instance snapshots CHC upon cast.
• Selfcast Rend does proc Area Damage.
• Rend applied by Ambo’s does not proc Area Damage.
• Ambo’s has a proc-coefficient of 1 and applies a Rend on each WWs tick.
• Ambo’s does apply the equipped rune from the skillbar.
• Ambo’s does oscillate between main and off-hand, since WW does.
• Ambo’s pride can’t exceed the Lamentation cap of 2.
• Rend:Bloodbath explosions count as a separate Rend instance but are capped at 2 due to Lamentation. This makes Bloodbath by far the best DPS rune (doubling the damage output).
• Rend ticks every 12 Frames (0.2 seconds). Damage is accumulated and displayed every 48 Frames (0.8 seconds).