DBS - Your calculations are completely pointless, as you are not factoring that in Master most fights last longer than 10 seconds - crippling your Magicka and damage output - in which Destruction without crafting falls to around 29 dps. In a practical battle, base Destro does less dps than all other skills, including conjuration. With crafting, it still does less. The OP is correct, you are wrong - simple as that. You can't just use a 10 second imaginary battle. Its false and flies in the face of the actual game and magicka requirements. You also aren't factoring in that DW only needs a small sliver of stamina to do another power attack. DW dps will always be higher than Destruction in a real game battle.
In other words, anyone actually using your "information" is completely wrong from a mathematical standpoint.
Anyone who has played both Destro and DW also know you are complete wrong from actual experience.
Let me say it again, Destruction w/out crafting is the lowest dps - as you will run out of magicka fairly quickly and be doing 1/10th the DPS of other skills. This is not debatable. And again, lol 10 second battles.
Im not wrong in anything, your reply to my post is just showing that your spouting plain BS without even bothering to read my post and comprehend the
FACTS.
My calculation show than a stock meele without crafting skills and without exploits svcks big time compared to a stock destro without any crafting and exploits.
Furthemore in that same post I destroyed ( with only one custom made pot ) an ancient/blood dragon with 3,4k HP on master in 5 seconds and still have mana left for another 5 sec while not using
ANY mana reduction gear.
Even if I didnt use a custom pot and just went with a vendor dmg destruction pot I would anihilate the dragon before my mana runs out - thats without using smithing, alchemy, enchanting, any gear whatsoever and without exploiting bugs and the AI.
Your meele on the other side cant even compare without custom brewed pots, smithined and enchanted weapons/gear - he even needs to exploit the stamina bug to be able to power attack or else he would need to swing his sword the normal way likr a crazy berserker.