Right, I decided to look at my logs to see how good an approximation the 2DMG+Damage bonus (or just 2DMG for off hand) is for weapons hits.
This is for a ranger in his late 40s with around 200 STR Equipped with Wurmslayer and Lupine Dagger.
Across a variety of mobs the Wurmslayer's average hit was 54, the Lupine dagger's 16. Factoring in delay that is a ratio of 1.52 (54/40:16/18). The formula suggests the Wurmslayer in primary should do 1.5 ((25+25+10)/40:(9+9/)18) the damage/delay of the Lupine Dagger.
I'm not going to lie, I'm surprised at how close the expected figure for the relative value of the weapons was to how they performed in the field. I'll look at the results under different tests to see the differences; most of these fights were against low dark blues, meaning I had decent ATK versus the defenders AC, allowing the DMG to come in to play. I suspect against more difficult mobs we will see that having low delay becomes more important (as damage bonus is not mitigated by AC, unlike DMG).
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