1.
You can't recite recall or flee for four rounds while deathgrip.
You can recite recall or flee right after backstab.
2.
Deathgrip makes you lag for a round until second maintain.
Backstab does not have such a big lag.
3.
There are now mobs, which you can't deathgrip.
There are mobs, which you can't backstab.
4.
Deathgrip does less damage than backstab.
5.
Deathgrip seems to miss more compared to backstab.
There are more chances that at least one the backstabs hit the target.
Did I miss anything?
Does it sound like deathgrip is less damage, more lag and trouble using?
Besides an ability to wraithtouch, whats good left in a deathgrip itself?
Is that the only advantage over backstab to hit some mobs, which backstab can't hit?
Does deathtouch make it?