Originally Posted by Morelis
If my memory serves me correctly the damage added by the AP bonus on the WF proc is not subject to the OH penalty, the weapon damage however is.
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This is in response to Jessamy as well, and is provided simply for historical reasons:
Pre 2.1 and the WF5/WF4 bug fix, the 50% offhand damage penalty was being applied twice: once to the damage dealt by the two windfury attacks (which was not a bug) and once to the attack power gained by the strikes (which was a bug). In other words, the main hand was getting the full 445 AP, whereas the offhand was only getting 222.5 AP -- and then getting reduced further once the offhand penalty was factored in. Therefore, given the exact same weapons in both hands, OH windfury attacks were actually dealing slightly less than 50% of the MH damage, rather than the expected 50%.
There are several reasons why most of the community didn't notice that this was occuring:
1.) It was much less common to have two of the same weapon equipped because pre-2.1 the only decent slow offhand weapons were from arena, heroics, or Tempest Keep (Al'ar)
2.) At higher levels of gear, that AP bonus gets lost in the noise unless one is specifically looking for it
3.) Even if people used the same weapons for MH/OH, most of us Min/Maxers used WF5/WF4, meaning that we were expecting that our OH WF damage would be slightly less than 50% of our MH WF damage.