2.1.0 Patch Notes

[Taelas]

It does matter. Prot scales much better with AP up until it gets to the point where you can use rage every cooldown. Afterwards Fury scales better. Also, white damage scales slightly better with AP in a Fury build.

I tested in on my warrior. With little more than 1.2k attack power, I could Devastate every GCB and only after unlucky misses would I not have enough rage to keep spamming it.

Deep wounds in a DW build isn't a huge deal. it's about 2% of total damage. Less than a 2H build because of the quick attacks (DW overwrites itself) and the lower MH weapon damage.

Of course it scales worse than it would with a 2H build, but it's still significant damage. A 2% DPS increase is still substantial.

Whatever the attack power is with prot, it will be lower with Fury. The 250 is rampage, the 1.1 is imp. berserker.

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Okay, you're not making much sense. Let's say you have two different warriors. A has 0/20/41, B has 17/41/3.

A has 500 strength, granting 1000 AP. With Vitality, this becomes 550 strength, for a total of 1100 AP. He also has 500 AP from non-strength sources, for a grand total of 1600 AP.
B has the exact same stats, 500 strength and 500 AP. He gets 10% more from strength--for a total of 1100 AP from strength--as well as 10% more from the 500 AP--550 AP--for a grand total of 1650 AP.

It seems to me you're only counting the Improved Berserker Stance bonus when doing specials. It affects white damage as well, y'know.

Of course, this is only within Berserker stance, but as we are discussing DPS, there is no reason to consider Battle or Defensive stance, save for the occasional Overpower... which B has a much higher crit rate for.

Eventually you will end up doing a WW directly after a BT. At this point your BT cooldown will coincide with the WW cooldown. 12 seconds after BT, your BT will cooldown, and 11.5 seconds later WW will cooldown. At this poin thte proper thing to do for max damage is to BT instead of WW. At this point WW effectively becomes usable every 12 seconds, because it's always going to happen directly after a BT.

Yes, I thought of this almost immediately after I posted. You're right.

Assuming endless rage, of course.

My white damage estimation do, in fact, take flurry into account. Deep wounds is a small factor that I ignore. I've found through empirical testing, it's around 2-3% of total on DW builds and 3-5% total on 2H.

It's not a small factor. 2-3% more DPS is 2-3% Protection simply doesn't have. How can you ignore a DPS increase when discussing potential DPS builds?