2.1.0 Patch Notes

[WimpySmurf]

Devastate change: I'd be surprised if a devastate isn't the best DPS option for non-T5 equipped warriors for raid DPS now. Wimpy changed from Fury to Prot when he saw my spreadsheet showing comparable Prot DPS to Fury. He said he only dropped about 30 DPS or so in Karazhan. This buff to Devastate will be more than 30DPS. Other builds don't start doing better than Prot until Prot is limited by the GCD for devastate spam (or it hits the threat ceiling with the extra 67 TPS from the devastate spam).

I didn't run Kara w/ the Prot build. I ran most of last fridy morning as a 5/15/41 build. I was doing about 400DPS duel-wielding in instances with WF totem. I swapped back to 0/43/18 in the afternoon and was doing near 500DPS with the same crew of people. At the time I had about 1370AP, 10%Hit, 19%Crit and I use Vindicator's Brand Main Hand and Latro's Shifting Sword Offhand.

Things I did notice was that I didn't pull aggro off of Tiga until I started to HS every swing. And I could start to throw some HS's in since with a 12rage devestate my rage would steadily climb towards 100 and the best dump was HS. Specced Fury I had to pay more attention to my aggro. Devastating every GCD was possible from the start, especially if I got a charge in.

The change to devestate could definately bring Prot up in the DPS charts.

-WimpySmurf

EDIT: clarified a few things.