I'm happy I found this thread. I was one of the 100k that ended up getting an invite in the last wave and from what I've played so far I've had this exact question. It feels like there's a lot of factors they are putting into the DPS number, and the mere presence of the DPS number makes me feel like we'll eventually actually care about DPS vs Damage in the later difficulty numbers. I think anyone who ends up playing D3 in a serious manner (such as PVP) will end up wanting to crunch out numbers, and the way the tooltips and other things that contribute to DPS and Damage are currently done it seems like it's going to be a very tiresome process to arrive at a consensus about formulas/numbers. I like the idea they've put in place but I just wish they'd put a little more clarity on it. I actually started trying to crunch out some numbers for the Demon Hunter (the only char I've really made so far) using knowledge from other games but it feels like it's an uphill battle right now.
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