2.1.0 Patch Notes

[Concillian]

Right, I messed up my calculations.

Devastate deals 50% damage. An average attack will therefore deal
(Weapon_Damage + (Normalized_Weapon_Speed * Attack_Power/14)/2 + 25

Using Mavfin's numbers as an example (and giving him an OH identical to the MH):

Main-hand: (2.6*71.7 + (2.4*1500/14))/2 + 25 = ~246
Off-hand: MH/2 = ~123

That'd be the average without crits, before armor... Unless I'm missing something completely obvious.:P

And Bloodthirst is 45% AP. That's ... 675 with the same numbers, even more with Improved Berserker Stance. Hm.

Nope, I still believe a 17/41/3 build would be superior.:P

you again missed battle shout and 1H spec. The most damage you'd add if you took this kind of spec for damage purposes would include commanding presence and DW spec. I'll use 400AP for battle shout, which isn't exactly right, but for illustrative purposes should be fine.

I'm not sure what the +25 is in your analysis, it's 35 per sunder and I just don't know where the 25 is from. It's +175 with a full sunder stack.

you can add around 2.4 * 1.1 400 / 14 + 246 * 0.1 = 100 main hand extra (346) for 12 rage = 28.8 damage per rage just using main hand.

off-hand is (2.6*71.7 + 2.4 * 1900 / 14 )* 0.5 * .625 = 160 add that to MH and it's ~42 damage per rage

These are the numbers with 0 sunders. 5 sunders adds 175 to the MH and brings the combined attack to 681 with damage per rage up to about 57.

compare to BT with rampage and berserker stance. About =80 AP due to the loss of vitality, but otherwise the same... (1900 - 70 + 250 ) * 1.1 * 0.45 = 1029 per 30 rage = ~34 damage per rage.

Devastate can be done every 1.5 seconds, provided you have enough rage... 454 DPS from rage (before armor, crits, dodge/parry).
BT can be done every 6 and you get a whirlwind every 12 (cooldown is 10 but you never want to lose out on a BT cooldown, so practicality makes it 12) So you get
(1029*2 + 2.6*71.7 + 2.4 * 1.1 * (1900 - 70 + 250)/14)/12 = 219 DPS from rage in the Fury build

White damage in prot is not all that far off of fury because of 1H spec. In my gear it's about 30-50 DPS difference in white damage or so, not nearly enough to make up for the yellow damage advantage prot would have if it went live with both hands.

As I said before, I estimate I'd gain 100-150 DPS by switching from fury to prot if the devastate gain went live.

Really, I don't pull these numbers from nowhere. I did the correct theorycraft before mentioning them.