Originally Posted by stampy
I already made a failed attempt to update the dips warrior spreadsheet for protties -- everything went fine until I needed to add a column in the ability rotations for devastate, which seemed to have some horrible, horrible effects on the entirely-relative-anchored spreadsheet. I'll pack up a version with added (1h spec, focused rage, defiance for 2.3.2, etc), except for the WW/6xDev cycle that gave me such headaches.
While its obviously not a real dps spec, the dps ability of a prot warrior in good fury gear isn't as miserable as most think... though I am quite curious what the right way to gear/gem is, since the high percentage of devastate damage likely devalues hit (past 9%) and and attack power (50% scaling on devastate).
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Hit is a pretty miserable stat for Devastate DPS. So are, imo, two slow weapons. Using Brutalizer/Swiftsteel with Executioner/Mongoose I was able to pull just under 1400 DPS on Teron in a standard MT group (no enchancement shaman, bloodlusts, or feral druid). The entire damage cycle depends on continual supplies of rage, and is a real simple spam devastate with heroic strike and whirlwind in between mash.
I don't yet have a slower main hand, but if it's rage efficient (can fuel it's own devastate) a syphon / swiftsteel combo might even be quite a bit more.
At the highest end of all possible gear, if you could give yourself a 200 DPS one hander, protection would in fact be the premier DPS spec. Weird eh?