Last week saw a buff to our ability coefficients:

Tonight I saw a further increase over last week (post buff) in the average noncrit damageof HS, BT, melee, RB, and Slam by 15-20% but not Execute. Last week's log, this week's log. I can't see any differences in buffs that would account for this difference. In fact, the only difference in buffs that I have heard of was the removal of the Kings' Drums stacking with Mark, which should decrease DPS.

Is this a stealth buff?

Could this be related to the higher % modifier we're seeing on our paper doll weapon damage tooltips?

It looks like they also changed it to modify physical damage only as they mentioned. 8x Chaos Banes did 29k damage last week, but 9x did only 24k this week.

My revised napkin math on haste rating vs crit rating for Fury with my numbers (having reforged ~all crit into hit and kept all haste):

~45 Crit rating gives 1% more crit chance, raid buffed crit chance is ~35%. All damage benefits from crit (although HS is slightly weird with Incite.) Crit also improves Flurry uptime. All crits do double damage. 1% additional crit chance is ~0.74% more crit, so should be that much of a DPS gain.

~45 Haste rating gives 1.37% haste, and that's multiplicatively buffed by Windfury, and Flurry. So 1.37% * 110% * (100% + 25% * Flurry uptime) = 1.82% additional haste, using 85% Flurry uptime. Raid buffed haste is about 74%, so 1.94% haste yields 1.11% more melee swings. White swings are 30% of Fury DPS, so there's a 0.33% DPS gain from white swings alone. 1.82% additional haste also generate 1.82% more rage than base rage regen = (33/3.65) * 0.0182, that's 0.164 additional rage per second. Assuming we can always bleed off excess rage, and that HS does about ~700 damage per rage raid buffed, 45 haste rating also gives an extra 114 DPS from rage generation alone. 114 DPS is about 0.54% more DPS. Haste rating also increases Enrage uptime.

TL;DR: 45 crit rating -> 0.74% more DPS + more Flurry uptime. 45 haste rating -> ~0.84% more DPS + more Enrage uptime

So haste rating looks slightly better than crit rating.

So what about haste rating vs strength?

45 Strength will be buffed by Plate Spec., and BoK to give 45 * 105% * 105% = 49.6 strength, which in turn gives 99.2 AP. My raid buffed AP averages ~8000, so for HS and BT (which scale off AP) 99.2 AP is a ~1.23% increase. 99.2 AP gives 7.1 additional weapon DPS. Using a 3.65 speed weapon that's 25.9 additional weapon damage. Assuming weapon damage is ~3300, 25.9 additional damage is ~0.78% buff to RB, Slam, and white damage. HS + BT are ~43% of all damage (and that RB, Slam, and white damage are ~57%,) 45 strength increases DPS by 0.97%

TL;DR: 45 haste rating looks to come in ~13% under 45 strength for me.


Fluffy hand waving crap:

The math above does not account for how much of the additional rage generated by haste is being wasted from going over the 100 rage cap. With as much haste as I have Enrage uptime is pretty high, over 85%, and it's easy to use Berserker Rage to fill the gaps. Flurry downtime is 15%, which is pretty high relative to what a crit heavy toon runs (5%).

Did some HLK pulls tonight with Eshkol, we're similarly geared except my toon has Shadowmourne and a couple other upgrades. Eshkol is reforged haste -> hit, I am reforged crit -> hit. The extra rage from reforging haste was pretty worthless, I was drowning in rage from ghouls and Infest anyways. Haste does not buff AoE damage either, and crit does. So phase one DPS is dominated by crit. Val'k DPS should also be dominated by crit, so long as we have the rage to keep Cleave on CD. Phase three sees the loss of Infest generated rage and nothing to AoE, so I think Haste would be better there. However, given how much better crit is for p1 and p2, relative to the potential loss in p3, I'm going to move most of my haste back in to crit.

Maybe you may add an icon to track "Battle Trance" to the Buffs/ Debuffs Frame.

No, haste (of any kind) decreases Flurry uptime by decreasing the number of expected yellow swings (which cause but do not consume Flurry) per Flurry.

Haste generates rage, rage generates yellow hits, yellow hits generate Flurry uptime. So haste both contributes to the generation of and consumption of Flurry procs.

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I don't think this is true, when I moved everything into haste and ran with about ~35% crit I regularly saw Flurry uptimes of only ~85%.

Flurry uptime is not a good metric to evaluate Haste with.

Haste does not cause any change in flurry behavior concerning white hits.

Yellow hits have higher chance to crit, but the output rate of yellow hits is limited by global cooldown, higher haste allows you to consume more flurry charges between yellow hits.

But realistically that is a marginal side-effect of haste in all but extreme situations.

Even if your flurry uptime decreases theres no negative interactions between haste and flurry, as crit increases the changes in flurry uptime caused by haste decreases.

Regarding the Haste Affecting Flurry positively or negatively:

From a pure white hit point of view (disregarding special attacks and anything around them) Haste has zero impact on flurry uptime. If you have a 1s swing speed or a 3s swing speed the flurry uptime is purely based on critical hit percentage chance and unaffected from haste. It does not "fall off faster" or anything like that, it lasts for 3 hits after a critical hit and then falls off (or is refreshed before then).

Including special attacks, haste will however give you additional rage (i.e. more yellow attacks) and additional enrage uptime (i.e. more raging blows). Both of these will equate to additional flurry uptime by allowing you to fill more global cooldowns over the course of a fight.

Roughly speaking, for each two attacks you gain through haste you gain one Heroic Strike. It's pretty straightforward math since MH + OH = ~35 rage with 3.6 speed weapons.

So you do gain more auto attacks than special attacks, but the ratio is such that I doubt there's a significant negative effect on Flurry uptime unless you're already at a point where your core abilities are used on cooldown without want of rage.

(A little late, but here nonetheless)

I think you are forgetting the probable incoming buff to bloodsurge procced slams. Since they cost no rage theyll be getting the best boost from IR. It will have to be tested, but i'm thinking just using bloodthirst and slam procs, with raging blow when rage is high will be better if not equal dps.
Also IR will work well in fights with a lot of extra rage generation from damage taken.

Do we know if the active and the passive IR stack?