Just as the title says. Had a Silent Hunter (29-54, 1.8, +7 agi). Replaced it with a Coldrage Dagger (31-58, 1.5, Frostbolt proc), damage went down about 6 points on the character sheet.
I’ve swapped out gear just to make sure it wasn’t the 7 agi (took some stuff off w/ the former dagger on) and it wasn’t (went down about two points of damage).
Backstabs hit less with the Coldrage too; I thought weapons no longer factored in attack speed when calculating ability/auto damage?
Auto attacks were never normalized as far as I know.
What was normalized was the attack speed used to calculate extra damage on many abilities(some abilities were left unnormalized).
The difference you are seeing in backstabs is likely randomness. 29-54 base is not much different from 31-58. To actually notice the difference you would need to basically do many backstabs with each weapon. Around 500 or so. Then compare the two data sets statistically.
I’ll have to do s’more testing then. Doesn’t affect autos; they’ll do less, got it.
Yep. But they hit more often so it will be higher dps :). Plus you get weapon procs and poison procs.