SotC buff in 1.12, an Oboard threadFollow

Here is an interesting thread from the Oboards. I have no idea how big of a deal it is, but it's an interesting thread none the less.

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No, it's definitely giving a much bigger dps boost than it was before. Try it in game if you haven't already.

I think the point that the last post you quoted was trying to make is that before the latest patch, the game would use the hasted weapon speed to calculate the damage increase from attack power, but now the game is using the original weapon speed, even though you're swinging 40% faster.

So for example, say you have a weapon that does 50 dps at 3.5 speed -- an average of 175 damage per swing. When you turn SotC on, it gets hasted by 40% and becomes a 2.5-speed weapon that does an average 125 damage per swing -- faster speed but lower damage, so the weapon still has the same dps.

Now here's the part that changed. Say you have 1400 AP with SotC up. 1400 AP is normally worth 100 dps. With the old SotC, it would take that 100dps and use the hasted weapon speed (2.5 seconds) to calculate the extra damage -- 250 damage per swing, giving you a total damage per swing of 375. At 2.5 seconds per swing, that's 150 dps.

But since the patch, it uses the original weapon speed of 3.5 seconds to calculate the extra damage -- 350 extra per swing, for a total of 475 damage per swing. But you're still swinging it at the hasted speed of 2.5, so now you're doing 190 dps.

It's a pretty significant boost. I have no idea if it's intentional or if it's just a side effect of the way they changed hasting/slowing effects. (I've got a pretty healthy pessimism about Blizzard giving us nice things, so I'm going to guess it's an unintended effect that'll be nerfed soon.)

"Fury Seal"?
Anyway, the only time I use SotC is when I'm judging it (which is a lot of the time when I am using SoC), or when I am going up against a tough elite, putting on JoW or JoL then putting up SotC with my 1-hand and shield to try to get more procs out. But with the dps increase that I see now, I might use that as my main seal even over Command when I am PvEing (my dps jumps from about 105 base dps to about 166 with BoM and SotC).

Yeah, I remember it, but it's been gone out of the game for a few months now. Also, I thought it was a blessing instead of a seal, but I may just be remembering things wrong, I only got the chance to use it a few times before the patch switched it around.