It’s Min + max /2 /Wep Speed =DPS
Thats base dmg. Im happy to have explained it to you multiple times. I;ve linked sources and provided calculations. Enjoy your raid.
ggnore pal
None of shaman attacks are normalized, which is why slow is pinnacle for enhance.
So is that the formula for base damage or for dps?
Instant attacks in classis do weapon damage(142-234) + DPSfromAP*weapon speed type modifier(1.8/2.4/3.3)(daggers/1h/2h)+ability damage(which may scale with AP, may not).
If you look at the wording for Devastate you will see the difference between that, and say Sinister Strike
Got 850 dps on grubbis tonight on my rogue!
Placeholder stats. No way the dps is this high.
But it is, rank 48 for rogues on grubbis, top parse is 1k+ (rogues)
The datamined item has idental stats to Obsidian Edge Blade. Those numbers will likely be lowered to be in line with the other items.
Base is Min + max /2
DPS is min + max / 2 / wep speed
Yes so none of it is pulled from top end damage
if you were right you would always deal the same amount of damage with instant attacks dude 
the variability comes from the base weapon damage, which yes, gasp, includes top end damage.
not to mention that you’re already backtracking, because even if top end damage didn’t count, you’d still want a slower weapon for more base weapon damage, which you originally said didn’t matter.
thats literally OBE
We are in MC gear at 50 lol
https:/ /www.wowhead.com/classic/item=18822/obsidian-edged-blade
it could be placeholder stats, but it wouldn’t surprise me at all if power creep is so bad that lvl 50 = MC now lol
Weapon Normalization means for 2hnd every instant attack (Not whirlwind, windfury, sword spec or retal I think, and maybe not slam either correct me thou) is based on 3.3 speed calculation for your attack power.
So its something like 3.3 x DPS (calculated from 14 AP to 1 DPS) + weapon damage = instant special attack swing damage
So regarding instant special attacks, two weapons with the SAME DPS but one being slower, the slower one will hit slightly harder because its dps is the same but its less frequent so the damage per hit has to be higher to be the same dps and therefore it has higher weapon damage per hit on the weapon itself.
Thus having higher weapon damage it will do slightly more damage for instant special attacks.
I get the point, people like arguing semantics. Is it top end. Not entirely. Do slower weapons have higher top end along with higher base damage. Yes if dps is equal.
When people say higher top end , they basically are saying this.
When people say “well ackshually it’s not top end” they are just trying to be right when both points are valid.
I’m sure in 99% of cases where dps is equal , a weapon with higher top end (slower speed generally) will have a higher base weapon damage.
Essentially/ colloquially people are making that correlation and asserting it as top end. Not base damage. But always a 
to come in and tip their fedora and say “it’s not top end”.
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I’m so confused how many people still don’t get this? Ive seen this “normalization” of all attacks all over the place. Who’s spreading this info lmao
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You’re so insanely wrong but I love the chance for this to catch on to the masses and force a completely incorrect meta. Spread this like wildfire.
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Nonono he’s “right”. Right guys? Tell everyone. It’s normalized now.
General question: are weapon speed increases normalized? For example frenzied assault is 20% weapon speed increase.
On a 2.0 weapon 20% is 0.4…on a 4.0 weapon that’s 0.8…or is it normalized @ 3.3?
I believe all that does is make your white hits faster, the AP bonus to weapon abilities is normalized at 3.3 speed.