Prolonged Power vs Old War

“Victory usually goes to the army who has better trained officers and men.”
Sun Tzu

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Prolonged Power vs Old War

I don’t want to make decisions for other players on how they play. However, the World of Warcraft is a big game and one of the ways that I play is keeping our guild’s Raid Tab stocked up. It is fun for me to do this.

You can see that in our sixth column that there are two empty slots. This is the column for the Potion of Old War; the melee pot for pre-potting and for some later burst phase.

The help that I need from you is if you know whether my thinking is right. I’m a-thinking that the Potion of Prolonged Power is more powerful now because our primary stat is more important especially with Concordance procs over that full minute making your primary stack up higher.

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Potion of Prolonged Power
Item Level 110
Use: Drink to increase all stats by 2500 for 1 min. (1 Min Cooldown)

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If that is the case, then I’ll phase out providing Old War for our raiders. Part of my problem is understanding the Potion of Old War (I don’t play melee), partially because there seem to be two different tooltips! The first is Wowdb, the second is Wowhead.

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Potion of the Old War
Item Level 110
Use: Summons a pair of ghostly fallen warriors that will join you in combat. They may echo your melee attacks and abilities, dealing 113,154 damage. (Approximately 20 procs per minute)
(60 sec cooldown)

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Potion of the Old War
Item Level 110
Use: Summons a pair of ghostly fallen warriors that will join you in combat. They may echo your melee attacks and abilities, dealing 90523 to 135784 damage. (1 Min Cooldown)

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I looked up Feral Druid on Icy Veins and that guide says to use the Potion of Old War. But, I would guess that the guide was updated (or not) a long while ago and might not reflect the importance of our primary stats and Concordance.

The comment section on Wowhead seems to be from the Legion Beta, a year ago, with reports that Old War can give you up to 2.5 million damage for that 30 seconds if you are actively meleeing and stuff.

However, I look at my a Feral Druid in our guild with an ilevel 911 and she has 32,990 Agility. Surely a full minute of Concordance procs and a steady 2400 Prolonged Power would be a very big boost to her power.

So, I’m not sure what to do. I understand that there may be a “burst” factor where on a pre-pot pull with Hero might give enough Haste for the melee player to get a bunch of procs off of Old War. And, maybe that is the answer, carry both kinds of potions.

Does anyone have information to help me along? I asked in Raid the other night and got silence once I explained my stacking theory. Our raiders are not sure and simply following the guide. I’ve been wondering about this for a while and may have asked before in the blog but: let’s pull this question up to the top again.

Thanks