Originally Posted by
Culdreth
Any damage meter worth its salt has settable options where pet damage can be included as overall DPS, set to show separately as pet damage, or not be included at all. I don't include pet damage in my damage meters at all unless on my hunter or lock. and even then, pet damage is separated from direct damage. I've played since 2008, so have a reasonable knowledge of add-ons and game-play. I remember drops in other expansions, but never to the extent of SL. As for comments regarding 2k, that was listed as BURST damage. 1.5k was easily and consistently obtainable since I was a 120 Boomkin at heroic item level during BfA. This isn't a toon that was started AFTER the SL release and level squish.
Keep in mind, during BFA, a reasonably equipped heroic level Boomkin could do 35-55k. Mythic + equipped players were doing between 60-80k in raids and dungeons. So don't be so hasty to dispel the fact that a heroic level toon, after the SL squish, could be capable of 1.5k dps prior to actually entering the Oribos/SL realm. Even Simulationcraft shows DPS on my Boomkin as currently equipped/enchanted/gemmed, should be in the area of 1561 dps at level 54. (Simulationcraft also assumes ideal conditions----upper tier video card, ram, interface, etc.) Last night playing with intermediate video card, 200 meg internet, 60hz screen refresh and 40-60fps play rate, I was hitting around 750-900 dps.