Sunfury Vs WolfslayerFollow

So over the past couple of weeks I've picked up both Wolfsalyer's Sniper Rifle and Sunfury (I'm the only person in our raid that would use either even as just a stat stick, so yay me).

However, I thought had remembered Athien making the comment that Wolfslayer's was better than Sunfury so I investigated a bit at TKA and saw that they seemed to agree, as did my DPS spreadsheet.

However, I decided to do a bit of in-game testing and flew out to visit Dr. Boom, and over the course of several tests, lasting between 1 and 5 minutes, Sunfury consistently came out on top (sometimes up to 40DPS more). I do have a +12 scope on Sunfury vs a +10 on wolfslayer's, but I wouldn't expect that to make a difference of ~15+DPS, especially when my spreadsheet had wolfslayer's higher even with the weaker scope.

I assume it is do to latency and framerate causing the slower weapon to clip less, or is just the scope, or is there something that I am just missing entirely?

Edited, Nov 19th 2007 11:21pm by Ieatrocks

http://forums.tkasomething.com/showthread.php?t=8616

That is the spreadsheet I was using.

http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Feathermoon&n=Rockcelot

Shot rotation I was just doing auto/steady, and tried several variations on popping BW, rapid fire, and trinkets in different orders and at the same time.

Edited, Nov 20th 2007 1:19am by Ieatrocks

Look at the spread between the min/max base damage on both weapons:

Sunfury Bow of the Phoenix: 145 (+/- 25 dps relative to tooltip)
Wolfslayer Sniper Rifle: 129 (+/- 23.8 dps variance relative to tooltip)

Not much, but that's a start...a weapon with a tighter spread will likely come in higher on the dps in a smaller than ideal sample (say, less than 1000 shots).

Also, the delay on the Wolfslayer is about 93% that of the Sunfury. That means that if you were to start a stopwatch and auto-shoot a target for 3 minutes with each weapon, the Wolfslayer would get ~7% more shots, which is 7/100 extra shots that can crit and boost your overall dps.

Also, as long as the slower weapon isn't clipping auto-shots with steady shot, you're going to be firing 7% more steady shots if you do a consistant auto/steady rotation.

It depends a great deal on spec (influencing R.Att speed) and a number of other factors that make it so a straight comparison of tooltip dps on each weapon isn't a guarantee of reliable outcomes, but generally speaking, a faster weapon that still allows you to maintain an unclipped Auto/Steady rotation is going to yield higher damage than a slower one.

For BM, especially with all the haste gear that's coming out, I'd probably go with the sunfury though. my 2.8 speed crossbow from attumen already makes it hard to use rapid fire, I wouldn't want to go any faster then that.

Edited, Nov 20th 2007 10:19am by Xsarus

They are so close that it really doesn't matter. I would take the Wolfslayer any day just because its a revlover styled rifle.

2nd...
Can't use a gun while i have the WoW sounds on. unfortunate, because i can make the new ammo pouches but not the new quivers.

if im not mistaken the difference could, with talents,gear and optimal rotation be as high as 20dps. hardly what i would call a small diffrence, atleast not while im trying out gems/gear to get that 1dps extra :P

but as many already said, it depends alot on the rotation(lag)gear and spec.