Something I would suggest for your SoR section is to convert everything to DPS. (instead of damage per proc) You can calculate the base DPS of SoR by equipping a weapon, looking at the damage range for SoR, and dividing the range by your weapon speed. The higher number is the base DPS for a 2H, the lower number is the base DPS for a 1H. To figure out the contribution of +dmg to SoR DPS, just use the DPS coefficients - ~9% for 1h, 10.8% for 2h - since weapon speed doesn't matter, including it in the calculations only makes things more confusing.



Don't forget the higher base damage and slightly higher SoR scaling with a 2h weapon.


Using my max +dmg gear (around 450~500 +dmg, 257 JotC), my 1h SoR adds around 100 DPS. Each SoR proc is around 270 damage on my LC exalted 1h, and the weapon has a 2.7 AS.

In the same gear, swapping in the LC exalted polearm (which has 0 +dmg), I would get about 10~20 more SoR DPS than with the +dmg 1h weapon. (Though it helps I have 2H specialization) The trade-off is that you lose some JoR damage, since no 2h that we can use has as much +dmg as a 1h weapon.




One last note on mana efficiency: Paladin DPS can be as mana efficient as you want it. SoR lasts for 30 seconds. It costs 260 mana, and adds 100~ DPS. If you run the seal for 29 seconds.. you get 2900 damage done at 10 DPM. (And throw in a 600~700 judgement for 140-ish mana) If you let spirit tick a few times, throw in BoW - you recover the mana used for the seal. Yes, that eats into your total DPS ... but opportunity cost of mana is removed. (Compare that to a Druid or Priest healer trying to throw a Moonfire or Smite in between heals. It costs valuable healing mana, puts them into the 5SR for little damage done, and is thus "unsustainable". The priest equivalent of wanding wouldn't add as much damage)

Let's see who that would be useful for...

Hunters? Nope, all AP based now.
Shaman? An elemental shammy would have to go down enhancement to use it; whereas an enhancement shammy focuses on physical stats, generally (AP/crit).
Warriors? Lawl.
Paladins? It's alright for SoR-purposes, I guess. (Trade 50~ weapon DPS for 300 +dmg? Seems high when looking at the staff equivalents.) SoC does make use of the weapon DPS though, and the trade doesn't seem to give much of an advantage compared to existing itemization, using what's already out there.


Create a weapon drop that is useful for half a class? Not seeing it.


I imagine Blizzard thinks you should be looking for the 2h weapons with +dmg tacked on. Blessed Hammer of the Naaru, the various blue instance drops...

0/11/50 is a pretty solid healing spec that still lets you swing a big stick for a passing semblance of farming ability and autoattack DPS. Over-reliance on melee stats for a deep Enhancement build is a result of the other weapon buffs sucking horribly in comparison to Windfury, if they became worth a crap such a weapon would be useful (not that I expect this to ever happen).

http://www.wowhead.com/?items=2&filt...97;crs=1;crv=0
Cough.

It's more effective for me to DPS/off-heal as holy spec with a Greatsword of Horrid Dreams and a shield than a comparable-ilvl 90 DPS weapon like the Plasma Rat Scythe simply because so much of my damage comes from spell power, to say nothing of what using a pure DPS weapon does for my pinch healing ability. Any 2h weapon with high weapon DPS and token amounts of +dmg is a complete joke and is useful to no one since a full melee stat loaded weapon is more total DPS class for a real melee class, and it's not enough to matter for a hybrid. I don't see why we can't have a mace or axe at the other end of the spectrum with a bundle of +dmg for a few more white damage DPS over a one-handed weapon/shield with roughly the same stats.

And said shaman can use staves? (Which actually end up with about as much +dmg as 1h weapons, but with more stats)


Right, you have an alternative with the 1h/shield. (And the weapon DPS gain going from 1h/shield to a +dmg 2h would be around 20 - mitigated by armor. +dmg gain would probably be small or nothing, if stave/dagger itemization is an indication of how Blizz wants things)

Take away weapons with FAP, and what do druids get to use? Nothing.

bah. commoner weapons.

For ret or for holy dps? With ret and a SoC/JoC/CS cycle it works out to ~70 AP = 50 spell damage. But if you look at the basic vendor gems, you can get 4 str gems, and 5 spell damage gems, or like 8.8 w/ str talent vs 5 spell damage. Itemization favors AP > spell damage.

For holy, spell damage is the biggest stat, as it scales extremely big with L1 consecration. With 10 second judgment, physical crit is the next biggest stat; assumes you're using a 2h. I'm getting numbers in around 9.4 spell = 22 crit rating, 1 spell damage = 4.4 ap, 1 physical crit rating = 2.2 spell crit rating. Till my farming alt gets up there, holy farming for me . For sustained farming, rank 1 consecration and SoR/JoR looping with blessing of wisdom, use free crit to heal up to full with a gear swap.

I updated the spreadsheet based on Fiola's suggestion that I show the numbers as DPS, rather than as damage-per-hit. This looks a lot more readable!

http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub?k...YUsFx7Ka2stABw

I threw in a libram, since I recalled the Libram of Zeal will add 47 to the spell damage of JoCrusader... I'm not sure if this gets multiplied by Improved SoCr, but I decided to assume that it was.

Not sure why, but in this calculation SoV fell behind SoR again.

As for 'why, God, why are you rolling a holy-specced paladin for DPS', it's kind of like tinkering with an old VW engine, I'm curious to see how much mileage I can get out of a build that really isn't, under normal circumstances, intended to do heavy DPS.

Good point. I'm used to melee crits that double your damage. I've reduced the DPS increase from crits accordingly.

I've also changed the formatting to be rounded to 2 decimal places.

Updated spreadsheet, changed Improved SoR to multiply the whole damage since that will be fixed in 2.10, changed Consecrate to max rank since word is that Consecrate will now scale spell damage. Also added DPS numbers to account for missing spells against higher level enemies.

Does not include any provision for having spell hit to negate that at the moment, since I'm more interested in 'maximum possible DPS'.