Originally Posted by SavoryBeetle
For 1), Boevis showed that the feral attack power + kitty dps to weapon dps ratio is increasing, which indicates that we will drop farther and farther back from pure dps classes. The stat comparison was intended to refute the belief that druids made up for this dps difference by gaining more from stat increases than other melee classes. Since no items will just have strength or attack power, however, we should to compare the effect of the other offensive stats on cat/rogue dps. For those who don't read the druid dps theorycraft, strength and agility have an almost equivalent effect on cat dps, with agility pulling ahead slightly. How does agility compare to pure attack power for rogues?
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About the same - arguably a bit behind. Pulling up ye olde spreadsheet, we find that 1 agi generally adds about 2.1 AP of benefit. If Agi is slightly better than Str for a druid, and Str gives, what, 2.4 AP? Seems to me that the benefit of agi for druids is competitive with the benefit for rogues.
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For 3), the Pillar of Ferocity gains 47 strength over Wildfury Greatstaff because we are going from a purely tanking weapon to more of a tanking/dps hybrid weapon that Blizzard seems to be converting all feral gear into. A dps comparison from Terestian's Stranglestaff to Pillar of Ferocity would be equally invalid. Itemization will cause a lot of fluctuation to the exact value of dps upgrade, and we shouldn't take that into account when looking at overall scaling.
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Sure, but the underlying point remains. Rogues are using 1H weapons, which means
a) They don't increase in damage as quickly as 2Hers, so saying that druid weapons scale more slowly than 2Hers does not meant that aren't at a reasonable place relative to rogue 1Hers, and
b) 2Hers tend to have vastly more stats than their 1H counterparts, which helps compensate for a raw gap in weapon DPS.
I mean, even if you neglect the stats on the items in question and compare straight weapon damage to FAP (which ignores the details of itemization and tracks ilevel pretty well), they're still gaining 15 FAP on the weapon damage, and hence scaling at ~80% of rogues, which isn't too far out of the realm of the reasonable. And when you consider that in reality the sword in question is more like a 4.5 DPS upgrade due to the change in weapon speed... again, I see no evidence of a scaling problem for druids.