Originally Posted by Aldriana
I'm not sure I understand; the argument I was responding to asserted that the upgrades obtained via druids and other classes (for instance, rogues) spread across all slots were believed to be comperable, but that the rogues had an advantage due to having a significant portion of that advantage focused on their weapon. If we believe that this is true, then it is necessarily the case that whatever advantage is enjoyed by a rogue if they get a weapon drop is instead enjoyed by the druid if that weapon does not drop; the advantages must be equal is magnitude if the initial postulate that advantage across all gear slots is comperable.
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You stopped just short of the conclusion. Druids will never see such a large relative increase in DPS from a single item the way other DPS classes will. Since loot doesn't drop all at once this is a problem while a group is progressing because a single drop could change raid composition by temporarily skewing the the difference in relative DPS. This couldn't happen in reverse unless the druid enjoyed several armor upgrades in a row before the rogue got anything. Given the nature of discrete armor drops this is far far less likely. The fact that eventually, after every armor upgrade is made, both will be roughly equal is irrelevant while a group is progressing, which can be a significant amount of time.