Next time tell those buffoons that blizzard equalized both 2hand and dual wielding so it wouldn't matter as it's about the preference. That being said, if you weren't using heirlooms, and you had both, go with the better stats, that simple!
Until 60 dual wield will be a bit better because of the more flexible enchantments. Dual crusader/lifeleech=invincible mode
Depends on your enchants. I'd argue a crusader + 1h agility > 2h agility. Either way doesn't make you an idiot, though because it really doesn't matter at all.
I used my staff just because I thought it looked cool even though I have a crusader dalrends and agility thrash blade. /shrug
Using staff, I'm 70 at the moment and feel things just going well, also I like jump in to tank some dungeons that havn't done yrs.
No significant difference. You can point to trivialities all you want, the bottom line is they're both very good, and you won't actually notice a difference, even if there is one. Which there isn't.
No, I'm regurgitating my entire 1-90 leveling experience, where I tried both.
AoE is only so effective, and stops being nearly as effective as soon as leveling stops becoming completely trivial in the first place. It's still useful if you're a Brewmaster, so in that case it may be relevant. Except the OP said he was leveling windwalker.
I'd appreciate you not inventing reasons for my posts, because you know nothing about me or my experiences. Try being not quite so arrogant, it will make you not look like such a jerk.
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Double mace is the best because of the haste on them. It is such a tiny amount and if you have boa gear you are doing 5 times the dmg you need to anyways so it matters little. At 30 or so you can spit out the dmg ppl were doing in progression Kara, mags and gruuls runs. Based on that alone you should be just fine.
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The best reason provided to pick one or the other so far.
"Privilege is invisible to those who have it."
My point is that just "feeling" the damage won't let you know whether one is better or not. A 5% difference is hard to notice while playing, but does make a difference overall. It's going to add up to an enormous amount of damage over the entire 1-90 experience, however. Even a small damage increase may well cut hours off your leveling time.
Diplomacy is just war by other means.
If you can't feel the difference, then the difference doesn't exist. Not for this context, at least.
And no, small percentage gains are not usually relevant in leveling. If you're killing mobs in two hits, increasing your damage by 10% won't actually increase your killing rate by 10%. It might if you're chainpulling, and are literally never out of combat, but sadly mobs tend to be spaced much farther apart than I'd have liked to be able to do this effectively.
Small percentage gains will start to matter once you hit Pandaria, and solo combat takes more time and has more downtime. But then the argument that you should be SCKing falls apart, since you won't survive doing that with an appreciably useful number of mobs (not without significant downtime, at least with WW, which is what the OP is playing. If you're BM, go nuts with the aoe-pulls).
You don't two hit things outside of like level 10. (which isn't even true at all for pandas, cuz you don't even get heirlooms till like 13)
The best place I found to level was instances, and I was certainly not two shotting those elites.
10% dmg increase = 3% increased leveling speed
6 days played to get to level 90 = 144 hours
0.03 * 144 hours = 4.3 hours
Well, I was a tauren, so I did have heirlooms at 1. And things certainly were dying in 2-3 globals for quite some time. Twoshot may have been a slight exaggeration, but it takes quite a bit more than 2-3 seconds for a 5-10% increase in damage to turn into an increase in killing speed.
Yeah, if you're soloing dungeons, then small percentage increases are useful. But that's rather atypical play, and not something people immediately think to do. They probably should, I suppose, but tuning advice for what someone is actually doing is going to be more useful.
Your first problem, was listening to someone in LFD.
Generally speaking, the less intelligently someone tells you to do something, the less they actually know what they're talking about.
"Staff is higher DPS"
"Why?"
..."lol ur a noob. l2p" = "I have no fucking clue what I'm talking about"
If they're not willing to tell you why DW was the wrong way to go (which at endgame, it is not.) why it's relevant to low level content.
Frankly. DW sims higher. I've been stuck with a staff for most of progression (people kept stealing my offhand) and just got a new fist weapon last night.
I did not notice a significant damage increase (though I still need to rebalance stats and get it enchanted.)
I'm guessing though, that uptime on enchants is going to be higher.
What? If you can't see it, it doesn't exist? Killing things faster is obviously beneficial, even if you don't notice it. 1% faster kills are 1% faster kills.
And if you deal 99% of a mob's health with each hit, increasing your damage by 2% is going to double your effective killing speed. Made up examples are made up. You're not going to be facing things that have exactly your damage per swing times some whole number health. You're going to do random damage with each hit and mobs will have wildly varying health. Even a single point of damage can make the difference between killing something in X hits or in X+1 hits.
Diplomacy is just war by other means.