Diablo 3 - Weapon damage based abilities

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How is skill damage calculated based on weapon damage?

I am confused a little bit about weapon-damage based abilities. My minimum weapon damage for my barbarian is 1066. If I use Weapon Throw (which damages "for 100% weapon damage"), I will hit for around 15,000 damage. Based on this little bit of information, and the tool-tip supplied by Diablo, the damage is actually my weapon damage (1066) multiplied by your strength divided by 100, multiplied by the spell percentage (100).

This all makes sense, until I analyze another spell (Earthquake):

Let S equal 12.51 (my strength/100). Let P equal 2000 (percentage based on Earthquake) Let D equal 1066 (my lowest weapon damage)

SPD = 26.67132 million.

Based on this, earthquake should be doing ~3.3 million damage per second. Comparing my standard output (around 40k DPS (according to Blizzard)), to the damage of Earthquake, it just doesn't seem true at all. What am I missing?

possible duplicate of How is skill damage calculated based on weapon damage?. See also How do the damage calculations work in Diablo 3? and What does the Damage stat on the character sheet actually mean? — LessPop_MoreFizz, Jun 03 '12 at 23:51
From what I can tell of these links, which I read prior to posting, they do not explain the difference in damage. The how is skill-damage calculated, is contrary to this and the other two links seem to have nothing to do with this question. If you disagree please point me to what I am missing in those posts. — Serodis, Jun 04 '12 at 00:14
Your math doesn't make sense. 15,000 is definitely not 1066 12.51 100. 2000% is 20 times more than 100%, so Earthquake should be doing 20 times more than your Weapon Throw, or only about 300,000. — bwarner, Jun 04 '12 at 00:28

Diablo 3 - Weapon damage based abilities

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