Well good raid dps requires a good usage of consumables, enchants, gems and of course a good raid setup. I can only do so much dps due to Fs’s perfect raid setup. Each class has its buff that are little by themselves but make a huge all taken together. There is an Arms Warrior, Retri Paladin, Moonkin, Survival Hunter, Feral Druid. Try to aim at a good group Synergy.

I haven’t checked other Shaman, they usually have better gear so it is kind of frustrating to see the drops that never dropp for us, hehe. I am not sure to which Weapon you are referring to. He is using Drakefist Hammer in offhand, it is not really a bad offhand.

I’d aim at same speed Weapons. In my current gear I seem to get 5% more mainhand windfury procs and better synergy from flurry overall. But 2 Syphons aren’t the best choice, since the shadow damage proc, takes away the +20% Shadow damage proc from Warlocks.

I tried Dual Dragonstrikes last night, but they were horrible. I had only 1780 DPS with it (http://wowwebstats.com/lslbnyr5t6o6e?s=1551-1782) and changed back to badge weapons in the try after (http://wowwebstats.com/lslbnyr5t6o6e?s=2860-3184). Imo the Badge Weapons are a real good choice for DPS if you can’t be bothered to do Arena.

Weapons having the same speed is always better than different speed. This alone gives more mainhand windfury procs and 1 additional attack with flurry.

I do not like dual Syphon of the Nathrezims since they reduce the damage of Warlocks and Shadow Priests, by stealing their “Shadow Vulnerability” with the proc. Also from the simulator the badge weapons come out higher than the dual Syphons. Don’t forget, they have a passive bonus of 3% haste, 88 ap, 0.92% crit and 1.33% hit.

The only better weapons are S3 Weapons, or the Sunwell Offhand combined with a S3 Mainhand.

Well as said before, Syphon is not a choice you should make if you value overall raid dps, since it steals the Shadow Vulnerability debuff from warlocks. While it may be interesting to see 60 damage form the syphon proc, instead of 50, you should realize that the warlock behind you just nuked only 10k crit instead of 12k.

If he really wants to value the proc of the Syphon’s he also has to include the Haste, Crit, Hit of the Badge Weapons. For me 3% haste, 0.92% crit and 1.33% hit are more than those 5 dps he gains from the proc (which also lowers raid dps).

Also don’t forget that Stormstrike is like 30 damage per weapon, 60 per crit. Making it 120 damage difference in 10 seconds, 12 dps … but the stats from badge weapons outweigh imo.

Slower offhand will be eventually needed with the Sunwell offhand, but you will no longer have the flurry bonus.