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Windfury has a hidden cooldown of 3.0 seconds. Which means if you have a 1.4 attack speed instead of a 2.8 attack speed, there is a much greater chance you will have hits that do not have a chance to proc windfury. How does that affect your DPS?
Well, let's take a 1.4 attack speed that does 100 damage, and a 2.8 attack speed that does 200 damage. We'll assume WF does 3x normal damage (take out the AP for simplicity). If WF did not have an ICD, then 14 seconds would likely result in 2 procs for 300 each with the first weapon, and 1 proc for 600 with the second weapon, thus both deal an additional 600 damage.
However, with the ICD, it becomes more complex. The first weapon has 2 attacks within the CD, while the second weapon only has one. A simpler way of looking at it is if you add 3 seconds to each proc, the first weapon will take 20 seconds for the 2 procs, while the second weapon takes 17 seconds for 1 proc. Since both amounts of procs equate to 600 damage, the second weapon is going to be higher DPS.
Flametongue is a little different. Its base damage scales with weapon speed, but its spell damage coefficient remains constant, resulting in higher DPS with faster weapons (which is why some people like slow/fast with WF/FT).
That just covered weapon-based procs, now let's look at instant attacks:
Stormstrike and Lava Lash are both instant attacks that are based on weapon damage. While some instant attacks are normalized to weapon speed on their increase from attack power (e.g. a 1.0 or a 3.0 attack speed would both result in the same contribution from AP, even if AP affects white damage differently to result in the same DPS), I am not sure if SS or LL are. However, the base damage IS affected by your weapon damage - thus resulting in slow, high damage weapons putting out more damage on instant strikes.
You should always put your higher DAMAGE weapon (not DPS, but damage) in your main-hand, and your other weapon in your off-hand. Your main-hand should be slow and enchanted with Windfury, your off-hand can either be slow-WF, slow-FT, or fast-FT. I personally prefer slow/slow with WF/FT, and past a certain point I believe WF/WF loses its power (not sure where that point is, however), but if enchanted with FT your off-hand probably will put out similar DPS regardless of speed (lava lash and stormstrike will do slightly less, FT procs will do more).
The reason is that your main-hand has no damage penalty, so you want to make the most out of your weapons. Simply, if you have a weapon that deals 100 damage and another that deals 80, you can either get 100/40 or 80/50, one resulting in 140 damage, the other 130.
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