Clearing up misconceptions

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About attack-based procing:

I don't pretend to have all the answers, but I'd like to see a bit of discussion--

Procs are triggered with a frequency that adjusts based on weapon speed.  This means that no matter what your attack rate, your number of procs going off will be the same (statistically) per minute.

This also means that the chance for a proc on an attack with a slow weapon is correspondingly greater than with a fast weapon.

There could be, however, a situation where the fast weapon is better.  If the proc rate is really high (say 20 per minute), then your slow weapon may not have enough attacks to proc that many times.  My Smite's Mighty Hammer attacks once every 3.5 seconds, giving 8 attacks in 30 seconds (the length of a seal).  If the proc rate were 20, that would mean I should proc 10 times in 30 seconds, but I have a maximum of 8 due to my slow swing rate.

Not sure if any skill procs that much, but have read rumors about Seal of Light/Seal of Wisdom falling into that category.

It sure would be soooo useful to have a list of the proc rates.  For example, I'm trying to figure out if improved Seal of Justice is worth it.  The talent increases the proc rate by 5 per minute, but I don't know what the base is!  And there are rumors about a 'cap', i.e., once you've proc'd 5 times for example that might be all you get for that minute.  That doesn't sound likely to me (seems too annoying to code--I'd rather use weapon speed and proc rate in a simple formula that gets applied each attack than have to track time).

This is the hardest thing about a new game--having so little authoritative knowledge about game mechanics.

Anyone know?
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Unfortunately, as far as I know, there hasn't been any organized research into the topic. It doesn't seem like it would be hard to establish at least fuzzy number ranges, given suitable scientific rigor and enough data. I'm personally still trying to figure out if there's a decent log parser around, honestly. That would aid data collection immensely.