Originally Posted by
Kronik85
It doesn't look like DKs scale badly at all from some number crunching I did a few days ago, at least not in the 56X range. Here are some results from Patchwerk sims of people on my realm. Obviously this is only as accurate as each module is so I'm not saying that this stuff is gospel but if we want to talk about this sort of thing then SimC seems like the best tool for the job.
DK (me) Frost DW and Mastersimple 310888 DPS ilvl 562
STR:7.11, AP:2.66, EXP:7.86, Hit:4.41, InvHit:2.33, Crit:3.40, Haste:2.87, Mastery:4.57, MHDPS:8.57, OHDPS:4.31
Warrior Fury 305425 DPS ilvl561
STR:5.09, AP:2.24,EXP:12.41, Hit:14.01, InvHit:2.25, Crit:5.55, Haste:2.67, Mastery:4.55, MHDPS:10.96, OHDPS:4.88
Rogue Subtlety 315488 DPS ilvl 565
AGI:8.89, AP:2.39, EXP:4.46, Hit:3.31, InvHit:2.77, Crit:3.42, Haste:3.98, Mastery:3.53, MHDPS:10.43, OHDPS:2.25
Hunter BM 308511 DPS ilvl 568
AGI:8.94, AP:3.32, EXP:5.96, Hit:5.69, Crit:3.55, Haste:3.7, Mastery:3.77, MHDPS:6.43
Warlock Destruction 338954 DPS ilvl571
Int:8.40, SP:6.38, Hit:8.60, Crit:5.19, Haste:6.12, Mastery:5.07
Mage Fire 304353 DPS ilvl564
Int:8.18, SP:6.16, Hit:9.89, Crit:5.26. Haste:5.47, Mastery:5.21
Priest Shadow 272776 DPS ilvl567
Int:6.94, SP:5.27. Hit:8.34, Crit:4.09, Haste:2.46, Mastery:4.66
I also gained 1 iilvl on Wednesday my latest sim was reporting an extra 6k damage (317009 DPS) from that 1 ilvl. What it looks like the problem is that the OP outliers are just much better at cleave and AoE rather than gaining more stats and dps from gear than we do.