Infraction for Drwal: Grammar

Kaubel · 04/24/08, 5:18 PM

Post: [Warrior] Future of a DPS Warrior
User: Drwal
Infraction: Grammar
Points: 1

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Hi there guys, I got a question concerning those poor underrated Righteous Weapon Coatings for dual wield. The proc chance seems to be very high, which means if u're off int cd, u should get proc in 2-3sec (5 most).

NOW! Big question!
Have anyone tried this for buff stacking moments? What you do is using it on a good offhand and keeping it in bag until 2-3secs before buff stacking (trinket if u got some + haste pot + drums from party, hero too maybe). Here's the simplier explanation:

Here's the typical battle plan:
0:00
1:00 2min cds (haste pots, drums, trinkets, etc)
2:00
3:00 2min cds + HERO + recklesness
4:00
5:00 2min cds (what the hell, not dead yet?)
etc

My idea:
0:00
0:57 weapon swap from offhand with 28crit sharp stone to offhand with Weapon Coating
1:00 2min cds... +300ap from Coating's proc
1:15-1:30 weapon swap back
2:57 weapon swap
3:00 2min cds + HERO + recklesness ... +300ap from Coating's proc
etc

Word of theorycraft: Let's assume we are doing steady dps. Swap costs us 1s gcd (or 1.5?). Swapping weapons and getting a proc gives us 1sec of no dps, 10sec of dps with 300ap and 1sec of no dps for swapping back. So, 10secs of dps with 300ap buff vs. 12secs dps with 28crit buff (regular sharp stone). That means, the dps with 300ap buff should be 20% better than dps with 28crit. No chance! But that's of course steady dps situation.

Let's assume raid situation with buff stacking, let's say we are at 2:57, right before getting hero + all cds stacking. Now, let's assume steady dps is 1500, and dps on hero time stacking 3.5k (depends on luck really, one time u get 4k for those 15secs of reckl, another u get 3k, because of some unlucky dodges or misses) Let's assing weapon swapings for worst dps moments, the steady dps between 2min cds - before hero and after hero for our situation. So, we got 10secs of 3.5k dps with 300ap boost vs. 2secs of 1500dps + 3.5k dps with 28crit boost.

How much better 300ap is from 28crit? 28crit is something around 60ap, so 300ap is better by 240ap, that's half battle shout, so around 7% (rough estimation).

SO!
3.5k dps + 7% is around 3950dps... for 10secs... around 39,5k dmg
3.5k dps for 10sec + 1.5k dps for 2secs... that's 35k + 3k... around 38k dmg

Weapon Coating may be better with weapon swapping for buff stacking moments then. Of course my calculations are based on misty numbers taken from looking at wwses, but they cannot be far from truth really. So the result of 39.5k vs 38k is close to something real. Swapping to Coating can be a bit better, can be a bit worse.

HAS ANY1 TESTED IT?

Gonna try it on Brutallus the Puss tonight, but I won't have good comparison anyway, since it will be first time in going all out fury on him (usuallu sitting in MS/bf spec with [Nightfall] and buffing all the raid).