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I'm jelly that Barbs get the best of both worlds by getting belts that have life steal in addition to LoH on all the usual items. As a bear spamming WD I would really like to try some life steal while hitting [80k dps] * [3 bears] * [280%] * [# of mobs] = 672k dps per mob. Even a modest 2.5% on weapon should give me over 3k heal per second per mob which would help save me from blowing myself up on reflect all the time Sadly, finding a weapon with good dps and life steal is quite troublesome which makes me all the more jelly that Barbs can get it on belts without sacrificing anything.

Your math is slightly off because main stat adds that % of weapon dmg onto the original 100% so you'd have a total of 2100%. Since your original question was how much weapon damage you'd need, it's 20000 / 1.5 / 21 = 634.9...

There are so many problems with the AH that I've lost count... Not being able to search for damage ranges on offhands, rings, and necks is my most frequent annoyance. Not being able to access it from within the game world makes it so that you have to leave your game and lose your NV stacks whenever you need to bid on an item about to expire. Everyone tries to snipe auctions in the last 1 minute of bidding (they fixed this in WoW by adding a couple minutes on whenever someone bids). When you search for an item by name, you can't search for specific stats.

It's not that Blizzard doesn't know about these problems and how to fix them, it's that they don't want to. While it's admirable that you put some thought into this, but I'm sure you know it's for naught. Btw you didn't consider that they have to localize the UI for every language that they support so although the changes may be fine in English, they may not in another language.