DPS Warrior Specs

[Concillian]

Assuming you are just standing and DPSing a target forever you will slam after everyone regular attack. Chances of flurry ever running out are about .7^6 ~ 10%. So if you just assume flurry is going all the time an attack cycle is (3.5/1.3+.5)=3.2 seconds. Every cycle does (800+940)*.7+(1600+2068)*.3=2318 damage. So 2318/3.2=725 DPS against zero armor. Even if the mob is at 30% reduction that is about 500 DPS. Remember, that is all unbuffed. When you start adding things like blessings and WF totem that number climbs very very fast.

The slam model is even more complex than I thought.

1) reaction time / lag will extend the cycle length.
2) if you do ANYTHING other than slam and it triggers a WF you cannot slam until the next cycle without losing damage, because the earliest you can possibly slam is +2 seconds after the white swing (1.5 seconds GCD + slam time). For now I'm going to model using no other yellow attacks
3) you need 15 rage every cycle, which means you need about 13-14 rage per hit depending on if you have improved berserker rage and assuming you'll get anger management.

Interestingly, it's looking as if improved berserker stance + rampage is more damage than axe spec... Actually it should be that much of a surprise... 5% crit is equivalent to about 110 crit rating, which is equivalent to 220 AP in the itemization formula, and for warriors (especially 2H warriors) AP > crit in the itemization formula. So rampage by itself (if it can be maintained at 5 charges) will usually trump axe spec. Rampage + Imp. Berserker stance combined should always be better than axe spec.

Points in impale look to always be inferior to points in 2H spec, so a spec like this:
http://www.wowhead.com/?talent=pVMcdiZE0zVzgRizVo
should be the ideal slam build for raid DPS... provided you can maintain Rampage.