Originally Posted by
SparChar
I'm pretty sure your DPS is higher with Shiv at the cost of lower atk speed and less utility. To be honest, I still prefer the Shiv poke more.
You do realize saying "higher dps" at the expense of "lower attack speed" is counter intuitive, right?
DPS is damage per second, which means the burst of damage that shiv provides has to be measured against the time it takes to reproc the shiv, which might mean a 20 point increase to DPS, while an attack speed increase adds a percentage modifier to multiple components of dps, by increasing the rate of crit procs and increasing the number of attacks in general, which cumulatively will lead to more damage in the long run.
PD is the better long term purchase on the sole principle that multipliers are better than static increases in the long run.