This bow is clearly bugged

WoW Classic Season of Discovery
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My heavy Shortbow says 10-20 damage with it equipped 50-63 is my damage read out.
My new Short Ash Bow says 12-23 damage with it equipped 42-56 is my damage read out.

Right off the rip that is strange to say the least since Damage isnt a read out of APS just Damage per hit correct?

My DPS with the Shortbow is 24.7 (2.50 attack speed)
My DPS with the Short Ash Bow is 28.3 … (1.90 attack speed) it should be ~35% higher from the readout given in green with the bow diff 6 dps (shortbow) vs 9.2 dps (SAB)

I went outside Darnassus found mobs tried each a few times shortbow hits harder?

This must be a bug.

I have video
youtube .com/watch?v=twXu1P1Vq3Q

I just read some forum comments about this same issue in 2019 … 4 years later
I need a better explanation because the DPS readout on the bow itself for Shortbow is
6 Damage per second lets do the math. 2.5 speed 10 - 20 damage … 15 is the average damage, 1/2.5 gives us the actual attacks per second .40 so Attacks per second * average damage = DPS lets see what that is .40 x 15 = 6 OH BIG SURPRISE ITS ACCURATE.

now we do this again for Short Ash Bow 1/1.9 = .5263 APS (12+23) / 2 = 17.5 x .5263 = 9.2 DPS so logical conclusion is that both the Damage #'s and the Speed are the actual Damage per shot and how long it takes per each shot.

Ergo this " Bow damage consists of two components:

  • The bow damage listed
  • Extra damage per second based on attack power

Since the new bow is faster, it’s quite normal to have lower individual hits, despite the higher base damage.
If you find an add-on that restores the BFA (well, BC) character screen, you can see it there. " Post I found on the 2019 thread is bs

The bow is bugged and has been for 4 years? I havent played this game in 15 and just restarted in Classic SoD and you’re telling me this kinda stuff isnt taken care of?

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Based on your explanation and the numbers you gave, it doesn’t look bugged to me.
The damage per hit that attack power gives is based on the speed of the weapon, not the damage.

If you take two weapons that have the same damage per hit but one of them swings twice as fast, attack power will increase damage per hit by half as much on the one that swings twice as fast.

You’re still doing more auto attack DPS overall with the higher DPS weapon, but you will be doing less damage per hit.

Of course this is for auto attacks and doesn’t include things like abilities.

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Slower weapons hit harder in classic era/SoD

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what leynia said

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Attack speed on weapons is not normalized in vanilla. This is likely what what you’re seeing

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… So they went out of their to make it more confusing. ok. awesome.

well at least ty for the reply