My big problem with using the modifier of 2 is that I've heard it often repeated that the Woodsman's Staff is the best pre-Epic DPS for a ranger. Assuming the 2H bonus damage is (Level-25)/1.8 instead of (Level-25)/3 for a 1H weapon (I'd have to track down the source of this, it was some archived ZAM page, and yes I know the delay factors in but this is just for a quick show and I'm likely being on the generous end for the 2Her) you get a 2H dmg bonus of 19 versus 11 for a 1Her.
That gives the Woodsman's Staff a:
((31*2)+19)/35 = 2.31 ratio
Now use my current setup on a 47 ranger of Spined Dragon Claw MH (10/21) and Green Jade Broadsword OH (11/25) and you get:
((10*2)+11)/21 = 1.47
(11*2)/25 = 0.88
So those numbers give you the SDC and GJB being better (2.35 combined) than the Staff (2.31), which seems like nonsense compared to conventional wisdom. The damage bonus divider has to be as low as 1.66 (instead of 3 for a 1Her and instead of 1.8 as I used above) before the Staff starts to edge out even this two so-so weapons. It would have to be much lower for the Staff to clearly be the best DPS pre-Epics.
The MOD value of 2 in ((DMG*MOD)+BONUS)/DELAY function seems to only be valid in finding the Magic Number of your weapon's damage and doesn't seem an accurate portrayal of your overall damage outlay. I believe parses show the Magic Number only accounting for 10-15% of hits against dark blue targets. The Max Damage calculation I proposed before doesn't seem to accurately represent it either, but the truth must lie somewhere in the middle it would seem.
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