Originally Posted by
fateswarm
Those are two misconceptions. One, 20% haste is not compared to 1% haste, it is 1% haste 100% of the time compared to 20% haste for 10 seconds when used, and when used correctly.
Also, there is no "automatically better" reality here. Rawr gives troll racial about 400 DPS points in normal 372ish gear. It gives goblin 200 DPS points. First of all we see those are not spectacular differences, those are differences one gets when upgrading a ring to a tier higher (so we're not talking about any fireworks here, it's mostly minor optimization). Second, since the difference is so close, if the troll racial did not have 10 seconds but 8 or 5 it would become worse. Even if equal it would be practically at a disadvantage when it has to be managed manually because on paper one assumes an environment of perfection, which is rarely doable unless you approach Patchwerk or you are really good or lucky.
In addition the argument of "it can be used on burn phase" is completely irrelevant since Rawr does use it on burn phase so the points it gives to it are there. If it didn't use it there, it would be ranked much worse (and it is not ranked spectacularly high now).
[Also, any "in future gear" arguments are largely irrelevant since those differences are there for all to see on normal gear and for BiS gear now. Those are practical numbers, the gear is known to a significant extend; there're no really much of a "future" in wow, we know it in a large part; and before you know it, a new expansion comes, the level resets and here we go again.]
[Also, the goblin racial is not really flat and unscaled completely. While it may not scale with haste it will give higher damage on characters with higher spell power, higher crit, higher mastery, higher mana, etc.]
edit: Actually I want to point out the whole "it scales" argument is completely wrong. The two racials do exactly the same: 'increase in attack and casting speed', there is absolutely no difference in quality; only in quantity and restrictions in duration.
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Hence we conclude again we have a mathematically better racial that is practically harder to approach its complete potential because simply it has to be managed while the other one is de facto used optimally 100% of the time by design.
If goblin racial was mathematically equal to troll, troll would become substantially worse due to the management required.
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Actually I want to point out the whole "it scales" argument is completely wrong. The two racials do exactly the same: 'increase in attack and casting speed', there is absolutely no difference in quality; only in quantity and restrictions in duration.
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and we haven't even gone to the 'indirect DPS' of the rocket jump (similar to boot enchants)