Quote from duxI always found it pretty odd how the weapons in wow would do, say, 300 damage but only do 120 or so damage a second. As shown in that picture.
"Damage per second" means the weapons average damage divided over the time between swings. Lets do some math, based on the weapon in said picture:
Mininum damage plus maximum damage , divided by 2, and then divided by swingtime = 332 + 498 = 830 / 2 = 415 / 3.2 = 129,6875 (rounded up : 129.7)
Then you can just do it the other way, DPS times the weapon-speed: 129.7 * 3.2 = ~415
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