It has come to my attention that the DPS on the Wrath server [Ragnaros] is nearly double of what it was on Blizzard servers. 22k? 25k? 30k dps? By mages, hunters and warlocks? No. The ABSOLUTE TOP would be a Fury Warrior with shadowmourne - dealing less than 23k dps. The standard is to test a guild's DPS on Deathbringer Saurfang in 25 HC.
I have much, much proof of this via old forums:
http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/...of-DPS-classes
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/534914-/55886296
http://www.engadget.com/2010/05/06/i...lysis-by-spec/
http://forums.elitistjerks.com/topic...in-icc-normal/
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2592646273
...there's more.
However, checking the forums here I see discussion and screenshots of ridiculously inflated damage of 24-30k by nontraditional classes. I've asked several high-end players (gear-wise at least) and what they claim is in agreement to the Warmane forums. I used to play on other EU Blizzlike Wrath servers, and the top DPS would be a 6.7k GearScore Retribution Paladin or Fury Warrior dealing around 15-16k DPS (Ret) and 15-17k (Fury) on Saurfang 25 HC (no icc buff). Are you telling me that players here are nearly twice as good as all of the top guilds on other private servers and all of the original Blizzard retail Wrath servers?
Typically private servers will have something broken in the talent tree that should lower a class' DPS, but here it's not the case. Can someone provide an explaination/prove me wrong/agree the dps here isn't Blizzlike? Those are the only three possibilities. I came here with a bunch of buddies (and family) and we're eager to start progressing from scratch, but its off-putting content will be breezed through due to unusually high DPS. The only thing I can think of is that the "broken" talents soup up class' DPS here instead of reduce.
Regards,
Some dude with Target Dummy set to hearthstone.