DPS Warrior Specs

[Concillian]

I still wonder about a rage build in a raid to say 60 or 70 and then a slam spam dump, I used to do this on my prot warrior pre 2.0 all the time when I wasn't tanking, build rage DW then swap in the 2H and spam slam wasn't any better way really).

With Imp. slam, it's not about slam spamming. It's timing slam right after a white swing. There is still a global cooldown of 1.5 seconds, even though slam takes 0.5. The appropriate usage is swing --> slam --> swing --> slam. Fitting this in amongst using GCDs for spamstring for WF maximizing becomes more interesting. You aren't going to be perfect with getting it right after a white swing, which is why I had it with a lot of margin in there.

as far as those two points go, I don't really know where they belong. I guess Iron will. They don't have a whole lot of value anywhere really.

Oh on that note on your pure fury build, is imp zerker rage any good? I know it only maps to .33 rage/s (which seems to be what a lot of the talents map to, hmmm) and the points are once again very likely to be sucked out from DW spec, but that build would be in zerker pretty much all the time you would have that generation. I would think from a gameplay perspective it would at least help with the management of rampage a little since you could help insure you have the rage to keep that up a little. I know it has pretty good value in PvP to get you some rage right now as well. But from a DPS standpoint will .33 rage a second beat out 10% more damage from the OH even for rage generation?

At the level of gearing I'm discussing keeping up rampage is not an issue, except for timing it with the crits. Berserker rage is situationally useful. in PvP it's nice and while grinding where you will have rampage less. In a raid situation it's not so useful, primarily because it eats a global cooldown every 30 seconds. You get the rage, but you give up a hamstring and a chance at WF proc, or a slam opportunity. It's great if you need the rage instantly, like in the beginning of the fight or for filling in droughts. It's also very nice for "in and out" fights like Chrommie... so is anger management.

As far as beating out the OH damage, my model currently isn't using any rage aside from Bloodthirst, so in the model no, but in actuality you'd still probably be better off with the off-hand damage... that gets you rage AND damage.

I just checked it out, and yeah, it takes a better damage per rage conversion than Bloodthirst to make up an EQUAL amount of damage to the white damage lost from DW spec with the 0.33 rage per second gained minus the small amount of rage lost from the damage of DW spec.