Originally Posted by
Mihalik
No they aren't even remotly even. SMF will consistently outperform TG by a fair and wide margin.
Altought it's again not that simple. TG will give you better overall AoE damage on Cleave fights. Altought the only boss that would warrant it would be the Guardians in Vaults, but there Arms by far margin outperforms Fury thanks to Sweeping Strikes.
Also the other issue is the item level of your weapons. Heroic 5 man 1handers will outperform LFR 2handers, but they cant beat normal raid level 2handers. But LFR 1 handers will beat normal 2handers. For 2handers to be competitive they really need a pretty fair level margin.
But in all those cases Arms will beat TG with just one 2hander.
So it depends on the weapons you have, it's a choice betwen SMF and Arms really.
TG trails both specs in single target dps, and trails Arms on Cleave. So considering existing bosses in raids your choices are the above.
This if you are optimizing. If you dont care, play whatever.