07-18-2005, 06:33 PM
About WF vs RB
I don't have the math in front of me, but I've seen it. Might have been on this site, I don't know and if you care about the details search it yourself.
But I remember the gist of it. Go to any of the threads talking about rogue and warrior weapon speeds to see how slow weapons benefit from high AP on instant attacks. WF is instant attacks and high AP in one, so it really likes slow weapons. RB adds enough AP to make up for it on fast weapons. Someone did a bunch of math and figured out that 3.0 was the breakeven point.
Your choice of the Excavator's Brand for your experiments was a poor one if you want to generalize. The reason is the proc. Everytime WF procs you get 2 free chances at a brand proc, boosting your DPS with WF past RB. Incidentally that's the route I take, using a 2.7 speed Axe of Deep Woods which has a wrath proc with lifestealing enchant. One or the other (or often both w00t) seems to go off nearly every time WF does.
I don't have the math in front of me, but I've seen it. Might have been on this site, I don't know and if you care about the details search it yourself.
But I remember the gist of it. Go to any of the threads talking about rogue and warrior weapon speeds to see how slow weapons benefit from high AP on instant attacks. WF is instant attacks and high AP in one, so it really likes slow weapons. RB adds enough AP to make up for it on fast weapons. Someone did a bunch of math and figured out that 3.0 was the breakeven point.
Your choice of the Excavator's Brand for your experiments was a poor one if you want to generalize. The reason is the proc. Everytime WF procs you get 2 free chances at a brand proc, boosting your DPS with WF past RB. Incidentally that's the route I take, using a 2.7 speed Axe of Deep Woods which has a wrath proc with lifestealing enchant. One or the other (or often both w00t) seems to go off nearly every time WF does.