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First off for ArPen and Frost you can not Sim it. The Sim uses a stand still tank in spank scenario. My DK sets at 62% passive ArPen from gear alone w/o any gems. So I decided to see how much of a difference gemming frull ArPen vs Str in game and not Sim'ed would actually be. In tank in spanks ie Saurfang, Fester, Rot, BQL, it was anywhere from 400-600 dps increase so if your a min/maxer thats a nice net dps increase. But where ArPen falls way off the wagon is on movement fights. I noticed that on heavy movment fights I lost 1000+ dps. So its a loss of dps for 8/12 fights in ICC.
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Basically, Arpen is only marginally better at high gear levels and only in specific fights. Aka: not worth it.
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I could be wrong but I feel like ArP is not worth pursuing as a frost dk.
Theoretically yes there is a point where that stat outweighs strength, but I feel that level would be when gear is no option (like in a 25HM ICC guild that is sharding all drops). At lower levels of gear you would have to sacrifice too many other important stats or rely on trinket procs too much to make it overshadow strength.
So in short yes it is possible, however a more economical approach is via strength. Just evaluate your situation and decide. If you are in a situation where you have to choose between a lower level item and something with ArP, well go for the ArP. It's not terrible for DW frost, just keep that in mind.
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Here you go
to see the damage of top Frost DKs.
Im gald u linked that. Take the top DPS there Thoreck. He's gemmed all ArPen. If you load him up into
http://www.askmrrobot.com/WowSimulator.aspx
he does 12300 avg dps, if you replace his gems to Str he does 12475 avg dps. Now that is Sim'ed for a stand still tank-n-spank. All the sims have str>arpen even at top gear lvls for dw frost.
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Dude... No.
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