12-04-2006, 11:34 PM
One more thing that is very interesting
Okay so I started thinking about rage mechanics pertaining to the normalization formula... white damage gained from +%crit seems to be not normalized... or rather, normalized the same as if you have less +%crit... at least until resilience rating on PvP gear becomes a factor.
So DW is good for rage gen and so it +crit. This means that one of the better builds for rage generation should be one that 5/5 Cruelty and 5/5 Poleaxe spec and Dual wields. What kind of screwed up build takes Cruelty and Poleaxe spec for dual-wielding? Well I would presume a dual wield MS build that went 41 arms...
Oddly such a build isn't as bad as 'common thinking' in the warrior community might have believed... here is RPS, white DPS and total DPS:
Compare that to what I get for a 2H full arms build with the same gear but a R14 2H weapon instead of 2 Rank 14 1H weapons...
It was interesting to me that the two builds came out so close to one another, as conventional wisdom says that DW MS is a no-no. The new rage mechanics mean that a DW MS build isn't so terrible, but you are very limited on weapon used as the damage range on the main hand weapon here is much more critical than it would be in a Bloodthirst build.
Okay so I started thinking about rage mechanics pertaining to the normalization formula... white damage gained from +%crit seems to be not normalized... or rather, normalized the same as if you have less +%crit... at least until resilience rating on PvP gear becomes a factor.
So DW is good for rage gen and so it +crit. This means that one of the better builds for rage generation should be one that 5/5 Cruelty and 5/5 Poleaxe spec and Dual wields. What kind of screwed up build takes Cruelty and Poleaxe spec for dual-wielding? Well I would presume a dual wield MS build that went 41 arms...
Oddly such a build isn't as bad as 'common thinking' in the warrior community might have believed... here is RPS, white DPS and total DPS:
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DW MS (41 arms)
RPS WDPS TotDPS
20% DR 7.05 201 372
30% DR 6.54 176 323
40% DR 6.03 151 275Compare that to what I get for a 2H full arms build with the same gear but a R14 2H weapon instead of 2 Rank 14 1H weapons...
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2H MS (41 arms)
RPS WDPS TotDPS
20% DR 7.28 174 383
30% DR 6.73 160 324
40% DR 6.17 137 268It was interesting to me that the two builds came out so close to one another, as conventional wisdom says that DW MS is a no-no. The new rage mechanics mean that a DW MS build isn't so terrible, but you are very limited on weapon used as the damage range on the main hand weapon here is much more critical than it would be in a Bloodthirst build.
Conc / Concillian -- Vintage player of many games. Deadly leader of the All Pally Team (or was it Death leader?)
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And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.