Originally Posted by
mostdeadlygeist
Let's break it down together shall we. I'm inclined to believe that the armory displays your haste including the icy talons 20% attack speed buff (but it's not combined in game, you have to highlight your attack speed swing stats) as well as the 10% haste on top of that. Factor in unholy aura for another 5%, plus your haste, and you have huge natural amounts of haste as a DK--basically hitting a soft cap pretty easily. I don't know where else it would get that number unless it is factoring in icy talons.
Ok. Great, still with me? I'm not sure if this is ESL here. Please reread when you get the chance.
Your auto attack is incredibly useful information, especially as frost and moreso if you're 2h frost, which is the point of this thread. If you aren't using a swing timer to time when to use OB and FS, you're not playing the spec efficiently. Since haste affects your auto attack speed, this is very important information and is part of your simulation when haste is calculated since the robot is timing these perfectly with no lag and no missed KM's. 2h frost gets a bonus 35% white damage, so by increasing your haste, you utilize that more. Once you start going overboard, however, the stat will be devalued, much like crit is devalued since we have KM. It's not that it's a bad stat, it's that beyond a certain point you'd be better off with something like MS. Basically, if your haste is so great that your gcd starts to fall back between each swing, you're probably hurting yourself since at a point you will be rune starved.
I'm not criticizing sims. If you read the post I state that no one is going to mimic them so you shouldn't take them as gospel. Once again, reading comprehension. Also, the fact that you think a swing timer has 0 affect on performance...I'll just leave it at that.