Weapon speed normalization

[Essaya-shazzrah]

Is weapon speed normalization in effect in classic wow?

Wowwiki tells normalized speed for daggers was 1.7

This would affect for example ambush damage.

So which does deal more ambush damage;
Torturing poker 21 - 39 Damage, 1.7 speed, 21.18 dps
Claw of the shadowmancer 27-51 damage, 1.9 speed, 20.53dps

If weapon speed normalization was not in game shouldn’t claw have higher ambush damage, and if it is, then torturing poker would be better

[Lyman-nethergarde-keep]

Weapon speed normalization is about lets say a 4 second weapon dont get 4 seconds worth of attack power, but is set to a faster calculation.
The weapon damage is still completely counted.

[Hplovecraft-mirage-raceway]

I’m trying to recall playing rogue 15 years ago here

A slower swing generally would give better crits but a fast weapon - on rogue - would give better poison application chance - and weapon enchants application

I think - and this again is my aged brain - was that a sword rogue, combat rogue, tended to do more damage over all in an instance due to the higher white damage from slice and dice

But that a rogue with daggers had far better burst dps

My son used to play combat rogue with THUNDER - apparently rogue burst tank - with swords - was a thing late Vanilla and TBC

[Turin-dragonblight]

It is, weapon normalisation was added long before 1.12.