Warning for A Man In Black: Trolling

• Snowy · 12/07/08, 10:50 AM

Post: In-Depth Protection DPS Discussion
User: A Man In Black
Infraction: Trolling
Points: 0

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

This isn't an issue worth pushing. If people want to talk about how to maximize their prot DPS for when they OT, that's perfectly legit. It won't matter down the road when the dual-spec feature arrives anyways. I understand it's not the most compelling topic, but you don't have to post it in then.

Original Post:

Originally Posted by Jayde

The Fury DPS thread is--rightfully--full of tweaks to gain 1% or less in terms of personal DPS. If a Fury Warrior can make a tweak to add 100 DPS and a Prot Warrior can make a big change to add 100 DPS, it's still 100 DPS for the raid. To simplify is as you said is akin to going into the Fury DPS thread and saying "Dual-wield 2-handers, BT, Slam on Bloodsurge, use HS when having excess rage. Repeat until dead." No point in doing that really.

Any such advice this thread might have will be completely overwhelmed by "Hearth and respec." In the fury thread, you're talking about pushing a DPS ceiling just a little bit higher. Here, you've got a much, much lower DPS ceiling, ever since prot warriors were redesigned to do much more damage with abilities that rely on the warrior having aggro (Imp Def Stance, Revenge, etc.), so pushing to the limit of that ceiling accomplishes little.

The advice that goes beyond "Wear DPS gear, WW/SW/CB on cooldown, Devastate spam" can only be resolved by sitting down with a spreadsheet or simulator, neither of which currently exists. No amount of anecdotal evidence is going to say Rend is better than WW or vice versa, and no amount of anecdotal evidence is going to say that DW is better than S&B or vice versa.

Unless and until someone writes that spreadsheet, all we have is the rough shape of how to gear and DPS. And, honestly, I doubt anyone is going to do it, because if your DPS really matters that much you're going to hearth and respec.