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[Olon97]

The facts that MAP increases very easily and very quickly for the Melee classes means that that jump of about 8 to 10 DPS on a weapon is closer to a 20 to 30 DPS improvement due to stats.

That implies that there is some sort of multiplicative effect. Other than the weapon speed (a stat independent of DPS) serving as a multiplier for instant attacks, there isn't a multiplicative effect with weapon stats and attack power dps.

When a warrior has a 40dps 1h, they likely are getting ~60 dps from attack power. So 100dps regular attack damage. getting a 50 dps weapon with no change to attack power takes them to 110 dps regular swing damage, a 10% improvement, not the 25% improvement it would appear to be at face value.