Originally Posted by Deathcabby
Thanks for the reply Cheeky! I was/am using version 19 and getting the same results:
(with a level 73 boss, this time with 0 armor)
Sunfury Bow of the Phoenix - Hunter DPS (no pet) 1143.70 (weapon speed 2.90, dps 83.3)
Wrathfire Hand Cannon - Hunter DPS (no pet) 1156.57 (weapon speed 2.00, dps 64.5)
Wolfslayer Sniper Rifle - Hunter DPS (no pet) 1175.39 (weapon speed 2.70, dps 79.1)
The Sunfury Bow has the highest dps of those 3 weapons, but it's also the slowest. Dunno if it's still acting funny or not, but I wouldn't think that the dwarf racial bonus to guns would make the Wrathfire gun do more damage than the Sunfury bow.
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Try plugging in a non-0 value for lag on the Shot Rotation. I can see the Wolfslayer being a bit better theoretically than the Sunfury. You loose just 11.76 damage from the Steady Shot, but gain a 6.9% greater frequency on Steady Shots. Once your Steady Shot damage is higher than 170 (so, all of us) your going to do more Steady Shot DPS with the Wolfslayer.
Hmm, thinking about this more, if you have no haste effects besides quiver you
could achieve a 1.8s cycle with the wrathfire, so your steady shot damage is 52.64 less per shot, but you are getting them at a 31.03% increased rate. The damage cut off is again, ~170 for the Wrathfire to be higher Steady Shot DPS.
If you can get your Steady Shot DPS high enough with the faster weapons it can overcome the autoshot DPS difference (just ~20 between the Wrathfire and Sunfury.) I'm sure we could derive the point this happens for any 2 weapon's speed and DPS values. Of course to do this you are going to bleed mana out of your ass.