For mainhand damage, AC actually pulls ahead of SoS mainhand by level 45, and continues to pull ahead further the higher up you go. Jade mace doesn't catch SoS until 60, and even then it's pretty much dead even.
There's a case to be made that perhaps using AC over SoS in offhand (after epic) is the ideal choice. Their ratios are so smokingly close that the 6 second stun proc (albeit not common offhand) on the AC would be worth a slightly lower average damage output compared to the SoS. I guess it depends entirely on what you're doing. Even if you're not the one tanking, the mob not hitting your groupmates for 6 seconds is still a worthwhile thing.
For what it's worth, my real-time experience with IFS vs AC/SoS at level 40 is that IFS consistently drops mobs faster.
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