A reply to a private server test...Follow

I'm sure what you've posted here was done for the benefit of other players.

I'm sure that you will continue to receive no feedback for your effort (Its been 3 days now, granted the shammy forum is a bit slow this week, but, none the less...).

I'm also sure that, as a new poster, you were excited to share this info and may be disappointed at a lack of interest or reply, which can be disheartening.

So, I'm going to take it upon myself to speak for not only the Shammy community here, but for the Alla community in general. A bit arrogant, yes (actually very assumptive and arrogant), but I think I can pretty much sum it up in two points (and am open to suffering a beating and downrating by the community if I am wrong):

1) The Alla community is a huge information share. If you've cruised the boards you will see people exchanging info on questlines, specs, gear upgrades, etc... We all work in game to achieve goals, then share the information with others so that they can be a bit more aware and informed on future labors. We have our share of disagreements, spats, egos, and arrogance, but it is all respected as each of us has earned the right to have an opinion.

2) Any testing you run, ir-regardless of its good intent, is irrelevant to legal players, as is any post relating to the game you may make. You have no real experience of grinding for days, working up gold to change specs, or experimenting with a mish-mash of what gear you can afford, earn or quest for. On legal servers, with registered players, and in Alla, this is what we do. We learn through effort, trial and error, communication, incredible expenses, multiple respecs, and a lot of deaths - then share the info within the community to better each other.

So, thanks for the information and kudos for the thoughts, but, as soon as I read:
'...albeit on my WotLK private server.', I completely disregarded your post.
I shall do so for all posts you make in the future, unless, of course, you decided to play legally, grind like the rest of us, and earn the right to speak.

I look forward to seeing your name associated with the topic "I just bought WoW".

Oz

Soz guys and gals. In the Shammy forums I sorta made an assumption and spoke for all of us. I'm aware it was out of my bounds to do so, but I was pretty solid on my position, and hoped (in arrogance) that I was able to represent the Alla community. As I claimed to speak for the community, I open myself to critique and apologize if I stepped out of bounds or portrayed an opinion anyone is not in agreement with.
Here's what I posted (OP name & topic not here (yeah, I know its easy enough to find))

This issue of private servers has always baffled me. Is there really someone at Blizzard with enough Cajones to smuggle out the server software? Don't they have security? Strip and cavity searches? I can't believe someone can actually reverse engineer this stuff.

Well said!

I know this has been thought of before: Make an Enchancement Shaman with crazy haste gear and see what kind of damage you can do.
I decided to test this so we could all stop wondering.

My main goals were to see how much DPS was attainable, and to determine if Flametongue Weapon would be more viable at such extreme speeds.
All testing was done on a level 70 Troll Shaman, albeit on my WotLK private server.

Burning Crusade Gear:
Head: Duplicitous Guise
Neck: Clutch of Demise
Shoulder: Shoulders of Lightning Reflexes
Back: Cloak of Unforgivable Sin
Chest: Arrow-fall Chestguard
Wrist: Bindings of Lightning Reflexes
Hands: Fists of Mukoa
Waist: Valestalker Girdle
Legs: Shallow-grave Trousers
Feet: Skyshatter Greaves
Ring1: Band of Devastation
Ring2: Band of Devastation
Trinket1: Blackened Naaru Silver
Trinket2: Darkmoon Card: Wrath
Main Hand: Swiftsteel Bludgeon
Off Hand: Swiftsteel Bludgeon

WotLK Talent Build:
http://wotlk.wowhead.com/?talent=hV0hZhxxcoEdIgkgz

Phase 1 Test results:
DPS and Attack Speed:

With this gear, my haste rating is 483, making both weapons have an attack speed of 1.11 with a total DPS of 454.9.
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c187/Trilik/WoWScrnShot_080108_214127.jpg

When buffed with Berserking, Bloodlust, Flurry, and the WotLK Windfury totem, my Attack speed got as low as .42 on both weapons, and my DPS was an astonishing total of 1256.8!
http://i27.photobucket.com/albums/c187/Trilik/WoWScrnShot_080108_213654.jpg

Phase 2 Test results:
Flametongue Viability:

In my tests I discovered with my gear and build, Flametongue weapon is MUCH more viable at insane speeds because my build's bonus to Spell Damage with talents, and it's Anti-Windfury nature with it's low-damage, high-speed weapons that would kill the proc damage of Windfury.

PS: I included Flurry as a buff because with a base crit of 18.56, the high speed of attack and the Darkmoon Card: Wrath, Flurry was almost always in effect and I decided to keep it as a buff.

And people thought I was just lazy saying regardless! Ha! Haha!