Vengeance help

Post by dragonrom

I noticed with the new patch that vengeance doesnt have a cap. This seems like something is wrong. I went into firelands hitting 50k+ attack power on multiple pulls and bosses, putting my dps as a DK tank, into the 20-30k+ easily. I off-tanked Baleroc, because the other tank didnt have dps and was undergeared, i tnaked shadow blades, would get hit by one and go to 150k atk power, and pulled 40k dps.....something just seems wrong, no?

And if this may be intended but not meant to be so strong i think, i would like to know some things about the vengeance to use it before it gets nerfed though of course :D and to just understand it a bit.

1) It seems to only be affected my unmitigated damage, but shields dont count as mitigation, like a cooldown would per se, but instead act as an absorb still giving me vengeance atk power.

2) how exactly does attack power buff attacks, most abilities say something about like 300% of weapon damage or whatever. Now when i mouse over attack power it says something about increases your weapon dps by X. so if im using a 3 atk speed weapon and it says by 500, does that mean that my weapon damage goes up by 1500 min and max?

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Post by TheRazorsEdge

1) It seems to only be affected my unmitigated damage, but shields dont count as mitigation, like a cooldown would per se, but instead act as an absorb still giving me vengeance atk power.

Vengeance ignores virtually all sources of damage reduction.

2) how exactly does attack power buff attacks, most abilities say something about like 300% of weapon damage or whatever. Now when i mouse over attack power it says something about increases your weapon dps by X. so if im using a 3 atk speed weapon and it says by 500, does that mean that my weapon damage goes up by 1500 min and max?

14 AP = 1 DPS

Multiply the DPS by your weapon attack speed to get the increase in base damage. So 14 AP would give a 3.0 speed weapon 3 additional damage.

Taking the same example, if you have a weapon strike that does 300% weapon damage, it will gain a total of 9 damage from 14 AP.

That 9 damage will be affected by armor or other buffs/debuffs on your target.

The only "secret" part is the 14 AP to 1 DPS conversion, which is a value assigned by Blizzard. Everything else is simple math based on the numbers you see on your tooltips.

Vengeance help

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