Originally Posted by Wizeowel
You forgot to calculate how much dps your shadowpriests and warlocks would lose by you wanding... most wands are shadow damage so they eat ISB debuffs.
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I swept it under the rug as part of my many conservative pro-wand assumptions. When I stack the deck in favor of wanding and it still loses I still get a valid conclusion.
By not including the extra mana regen during wanding I made an anti-wand assumption that breaks with the spirit of the analysis (moreover it's probably the worst mistake I could have made). Thankfully Wizeowel logged in his pve gear/spec so I get a nice estimate of 495-292 = 195 mp5 gained in solid post-Illidan gear. Using wand_mps = -39, the tradeoff coefficient in my conservative estimate improves to 2.97, which is still insufficient to beat frostbolt spam's 1.97.
Even the ~10% improved wand dps from the holy
[Wand of Cleansing Light] (thank you again for your counterintuitive upgrade lists, Rawr) is not going to tip the scales.