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Post by
maniacfox
I keep seeing people say that fast weapons don't really work for Windfury, presumably on the basis that the damage per hit is too low.
But surely Windfury has a 20% proc chance, or so the tooltip says. So surely although a faster weapon wouldn't Windfury for as much damage, it would proc more often which equates to about the same thing?
For example a slow 3.2 speed weapon would proc on average once out of every 5 hits, whereas a fast 1.6 speed weapon with say half the damage output would hit 10 times in the same period of time and therefore on average proc twice, so the damage would equate to about the same.
I am working this out right or am I missing something obvious?
Post by
66520
The 'obvious' thing is that Windfury has a hidden 3sec proc cooldown, during which you can't WF again.
The 1.6 weapon will proc twice, but there's a chance one of those procs will be during a cooldown period, in which case it simply doesn't happen.
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Post by
maniacfox
Hi thanks for the advice both of you and the about the hidden cooldown, nice to know these things :)
I currently wield 2H and the annoying thing about it is the inconsistency. For example in one fight I might get a crit and a windfury all in one go and destroy a mob in one hit and then in the next fight nothing procs, I miss a couple of times and the fight goes on forever.
I thought that by switching to DW that at least my DPS would be a little bit more consistent and if I picked my talents/buffs correctly I could keep the overall DPS the same or higher than 2H?
Post by
rayford
Overall you'll see more consistent damage when DW. True, you don't get the big numbers. But you get little numbers more often, which overall, actually ends up being more damage than a 2h.
99% of Enhancement Shammies actually DW. Simply because we don't have to worry about some crazy 2h Windfury triple crit stealing aggro from the tank and the mob WTFpwning us.
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Post by
BahamutOmega
I've noticed...don't know if I'm seeing things, but I've done testing with weapons, and faster weapons proc more even WITH the 3 second internal cooldown (which btw bliz did something to on 2.2 to make it either not there anymore or independant to each weapon it's on instead of counting for both because WF procs ALOT more for me since 2.2) Also, where as 2 handed weapons are good for massive damage especially on a proc, DW will give you more over all consistency and will be more likely to crit and keep your flurry up since you will have two chances to white crit whiel swinging (also to note. Windfury procs, though yellow in damage, WILL activate flurry).
EDIT: On a side note, IF you can manage to get the Arena fist weapons
Vengeful Gladiators Right Ripper
and
Vengeful Gladiators Left Render
(or equivalants, any set of weapons with equal speed) and DW them, that tends to be one of the better weapon setups for DPS.
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