by StPauli » Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:51 pm
I did quite a bit of parsing of shield specialist during beta and though shield specalist definatly adds a nice chunk of DPS 2hander wins out over 1hander all the time if they are from the same expansion. VS undead is a bit trickier since its so random on short parses that you may well out dps the 2hander with the 1hander, but on long parses the 2handers always win out. shield specalist added about 400dps to my parsing when i was on beta, and was near the end of beta so I doubt any of that was changed. My parses were w/o buffs except haste, so I am not sure that buffs wouldn't effect it, but I think buffs would increase both by the same %.
I did parses using crystallos raid weapons as well as several beta raid weapons, cryst weapons are about what the 1 grp weapons are at now so should be a good comparison for the groupers here.
These parses were with maxed offensive aa prior to expansion release i think, they were definitely done with the same aa if not, the only difference was I purchased shield specialist. As far as I can remember the only buffs I had were the 100% haste buff from the npc. These were 10-12 hour parses and the test dummies unfortunately are undead flaged so have to divide the dps in about half to figure what the dps would have been vs live mobs. These parses were also done from the back side of the mobs. the 1hander would have had a rune 3 proc aug on it, the 2hander a 7 damage aug.
Cryst 1hander pre SS : 1432dps
Cryst 1hander post SS : 1795dps
Cryst 2hander (slasher from fire 2) : 2001dps
I have parsed out the dps increase for damage augs and it is far smaller then you would like to know, I don't have the parses infront of me but i parsed out the difference once between 2hander w/0 and aug and 2hander with 7 damage aug and it came out to about 10 dps increase (cant remember if this was after i devided it for the fact dummies are undead or not, parse would have been done with only 100haste buff) I would suggest you use the rune proc on your 1hander over the 1hand damage aug, id have to parse them out to tell you for sure, but Im betting you wont see much of a dps upgrade from 3 damage aug.