Originally Posted by Boevis
Is upgrading from a +41 spell damage item to a +82 spell damage item? You should know perfectly well that it's not. I understand the comparison you're trying to make, but that's a bit of a silly rhetorical question.
The OH certainly doesn't add as much DPS as the MH, but it does add significantly more than druids are getting from the "bonus stats a 2h has over 2 1h"
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This is somewhat ignoring the fact that OH DPS is probably a tool with which Blizzard uses to balance Fury Warrior and Rogue DPS vs. hybrid DPS classes such as Druids.
Just because it is a "negative" for a Druid doesn't mean it's wrong or unintended, after all.
Like was pointed out by the person above and me earlier, there is a bit of give and take here--it's just as "odd" to be tanking with a 2h+Shield as it is to be using a 2h with 1h weapon balance while DPSing. That's probably why you see it as somewhere in-between.
Either way, weapon DPS is only a tool with which the class can be balanced around, and hardly the only one. The fact that FAP weapons are scaling in a logical manner is evidence that it is being considered as such, and that Druid DPS will be balanced around it in the future. There's nothing particularly screwball about it, really.