Originally Posted by sadris
Yes but not all Druids have HOTW, and it is a perfectly fine assumption to make that resto Druids may, at some point, loot a feral weapon. Why should their upgrade path be in a state of perpetual decline?
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HotW is a fundamental feral DPS talent. A warrior could spec arms and not pick up mortal strike, and run around auto attacking every 3.6s; but that would make him stupid, not nerfed.
Resto druids arent built to do melee dps. A resto speced druid
should see scaling declines in his melee dps ability as compared to feral druids or any other class who spec for melee dps; otherwise, what is the point of having specs in the first place?
Don't confuse being a moron with needing a buff.
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Similarily, a prot Warrior may loot a two-handed weapon; they wouldn't complain that its undervalued because fury Warriors get more out of it (Imp Berserker Stance). As stated in my original post, do not take into account talents or self-buffs as the evaluation of the weapons must be done alongside other weapons, not alongside other weapons plus talents.
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A prot warrior who is running around with a two handed weapon, despite no instant (except ww I guess), and getting no benefit from one handed weapon spec or devastate, is also quite stupid. Two handed weapons are useless to a protection warrior... and
that is why we dont complain that its undervalued. We understand that we are not meant to do certain things, such as swinging two handers; there is no point in trying to do something you are specifically specced to be bad at, and then complaining that youre bad at it.
Again, don't confuse being a moron with needing a buff.
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One could say that Warriors get 10% less AP than Druids per point of strength, but their Deep Wounds talent would make up for it and as such, their base weapon DPS should be lowered.
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One could also say that warriors get 19% less AP than druids per strength if deep wounds is capable of doing any damage at all. Any spec that can use a two hander has no +10% attack power or +10% strength talent.
To be fair, a warrior with 500 str and a gorehowl does in fact get a bigger gain from deep wounds than they would from 10% str or ap. However, a warrior with 500 str, 250 agi, and a gorehowl would see MASSIVELY better dps getting 1 AP per agi on top of strength than they would see from deep wounds.