It actually is 9% as shown in the weapon skill thread, although Anidal is utterly wrong in the rest of his post.

[Grips of Silent Justice]

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I specialize in 2-handed swords, 31/30 spec using slam MS rotations. We haven't been to BT/Hyjal yet, but it appears that the amount of attack power there challenges my build.

Does this sheet account for increased weapon damage talent? I'm not seeing it included in the calculation. Is it added as 5% to base weapon damage, or as 5% on top of the total damage?

Is this correct? If so I think it would be useful to include in the spreadsheet to make a 30/31 type build instead.


Slam calculation:
Since it's not normalized, I see that it takes (AP/14)*(speed). Does that take the hasted/flurried speed of the weapon, or the base?

I would assume it's the weapon speed at the time of the cast, which would make it slightly less dps during flurry/heroism cycles. This is kind of important if your swing speed drops to less than 2.5. If slam uses the base weapon speed, then it looks like there would be an AP cutoff point where you would want to just use slam after autoswings and skip the mortal strike (because you can't fit them both in the swing time). If slam is calculated from the hasted weapon speed, then you'd want to be using mortal strike and not slam.

Using the base weapon speed, you might have enough attack power to use slam and skip MS. Using a hasted speed, that's probably not the case and you would just want to auto-ms through those cycles.

Note it gets more complicated for bloodthirst... I'd let excel handle that one.


So essentially what I'm noticing is the difference between the 2H MS and BT builds somewhere around 2.5 - 3K attack power, and it would be nice to see them modeled against each other.

Not sure what you mean. You can play with the spreadsheet yourself to compare the two builds for a given gear setup. Just plugin your gear (or whichever gera you want to look at) and change the talents between a 31/30 to a 30/31 (although something like 20/41 could possibly be better)

The spreadsheet allows you to change your build however you like. 31/30/0 is not a common raid build. Blood Frenzy is the best thing a MS warrior can bring to a raid in the vast majority of encounters. Also don't forget slam costs half as much rage as MS or BT.

I seem to be having a few errors with the sheet, as in Excel crashing if I use the buff checkboxes, and the SEP button completely corrupting the sheet. Is anyone experiencing
the same issues, or is that just me?

The spread sheet shows that pillagers win in dps over the slient justice by the way.

Yes, but it actually seems that Elemental Sharpening Stones STILL give more DPS than Adamantite Ones. Could this possibly be true?

Need the plan, now..

Sure, more crit > +dmg.

For a while now I've been rather surprised that the spreadsheet showed a fairly large dps drop going from Bloonmoon to the S3 2h axe, and I finally noticed last night that the S2 and S3 2h axes are listed as maces in the item spreadsheet, and so aren't using axespec. Fixing that showed S3 gives 20 more dps than Bloodmoon

I tested some gear setups and I'm relatively sure that the spreadsheet don't calculates T6 4-Piece-Bonus (for 17/44).

I am not sure if it does or it does not but 5% to your Bloodthirst is not going to do much to your overall DPS. From WWS parses BT is ~16% of my DPS. So 5% more damage to it results in a less than 1% boost to my overall DPS.

Warrior T6 DPS gear is bad because of the AGI and the set bonuses are not good enough to make up the difference to be had from using the superior gear choices for each slot. Only the Shoulders (for 17/44) are a best in slot item.