Feral weapon damage?

[Danbearpig-aggramar (Danbearpig)]

Hi,

I have:

• Balanced Darkwing Stave - ilvl 213, 72 agi, 75 crit, 58 mas (not upgradeable)
• Korthian Pathfinder’s Spire - ilvl 213, 72 agi, 61 haste, 72 vers (upgradeable)

Obviously Balanced Darkwing Stave is better but how important is weapon damage nowadays for Ferals? The reason I’m asking this is because I have some tokens to upgrade gear and I could use those to upgrade the lesser Korthian staff or use the upgrade tokens on another piece of gear and use Balanced Darkwing Stave as main weapon.

So should I upgrade the Korthian staff or use the upgrade tokens on another piece?

(I’m no raider or anything, just want to get the best out of my casual gear).

Thanks

[Dunkiee-arathor]

Feral’s damage never, ever depended on weapons, unlike every other melee spec’s. It’s a stat stick only, so pick the one with the better secondaries.

[Danbearpig-aggramar (Danbearpig)]

Mmm confusing that’s what I thought initially. Do you think this comment is incorrect?

How important is Feral weapon damage nowadays?

In my sims, weapon DPS is always miles ahead of any other stat (currently, about 6x the weight of the second stat, agility). I am pretty sure this is true more generally. Therefore, weapon DPS >> all.

[Xechtinoch-darkmoon-faire]

In classic, weapon DPS does indeed not matter for Ferals. But in retail I am pretty sure it does. You might also want to check this thread in the US forum, in particular the very last post.

How much does your weapon matter? Feral

[Danbearpig-aggramar (Danbearpig)]

Yeah I’m not super familiar with these sim tools but if I look at this, the weapon damage, “Melee” is located pretty high on the list:
https://imgur.com/jgnebGv

[Xechtinoch-darkmoon-faire]

Melee are your autoattacks. Your character does those automatically while you are pressing buttons. They are affected by weapon dps but also other stats.

Using RaidBots is fairly easy. Just go here

https://www.raidbots.com/simbot/stats

select EU and your realm in the drop down menu and enter your character name. Then click “Generate Stat Weights”. It will pull your equip and talents from the last time you logged out, so make sure you did not log out as resto.

After a while, you will get a ranking which stat gives you the most DPS (bigger number = stat generates more dps). Stat weights have a number of drawbacks but I don’t think you need to be overly concerned about those.

[Danbearpig-aggramar (Danbearpig)]

Ah ok, makes sense. Yeah thanks for the info

[Onori-draenor]

@Dunkiee-arathor

Feral’s damage never, ever depended on weapons, unlike every other melee spec’s. It’s a stat stick only, so pick the one with the better secondaries.

They changed that ages ago.

[Thýri-khaz-modan]

@Dunkiee-arathor

Feral’s damage never, ever depended on weapons, unlike every other melee spec’s. It’s a stat stick only, so pick the one with the better secondaries.

This is incorrect.

Take the weapon with highest DPS.
As feral, the weapon damage gets converted into claw damage, which is a 1.0 speed melee weapon, and DPS is the only thing that matter in that conversion.