2.50 offhand weapons

[Vaporz]

Everyone says you want a around 1.5 offhand weapon..... why does blizz even make the 2.50 offhand weapons then?! i dont get it. Most of them I have seen are fist weps. The reason I made this thread is I was thinking about getting "pride" from the heroism vendor.

[Nakari]

Not all DW classes prefer fast OHs

[mmathes339]

Rogues want a fast offhand weapon. Enhancement shammies, and maybe even DWing DKs want a slow one.

[Elanale]

Definitely Frost DKs would want a slow one-hander for both hands.

[Siar]

in fact, out of all the 1hander Dual wield classes, only rogues want the fast OH with the current patch.

Shammies = Slow/slow
Dks = Slow/slow

Rogues = slow/fast

[Tumble]

Rogues want a fast offhand weapon. Enhancement shammies, and maybe even DWing DKs want a slow one.

unless something changed that im not aware of, which happens alot tbh, Enhance shammies wanted a fast OH for the FT proc, but like i said that could have changed i havent played my shaman much in the past few months

[Sullimo]

Everyone says you want a around 1.5 offhand weapon..... why does blizz even make the 2.50 offhand weapons then?! i dont get it.

Obviously Blizzard failed to continue in catering to the rogue class. This should be reported immediately!

As others have said, there are other classes who dual wield - and they want slow off hands. If you have an instant attack that strikes your enemy with both weapons for weapon damage - you're going to want the highest damage range on your weapons as possible, which will require you using slow weapons.

[Melonberry]

Rogues should be fixed to use slow offhands. Solves a lot of itemization problems.

[Nakari]

If you have an instant attack that strikes your enemy with both weapons for weapon damage - you're going to want the highest damage range on your weapons as possible, which will require you using slow weapons.

Caveat: if you're an Assassination rogue, you still want a fast OH

[Bazgab]

The reason is mainly for enhance shamans (which I play), as a 10 man raider there has only been one upgrade per raid tier for slow off hands so I hardly think they are over abundant. Rogues have tons of choices for fast offhand weapons, other classes that need slow weapons have a much harder time getting one. Thankfully most 1 handed dps weapons are "1 handed" so they can be used in either main or off hand slot so there can be a nice even spread of slow and fast ones. Sadly fist weapons have to be either main hand or off hand only due to inability to flip the model or some such.

[Bazgab]

unless something changed that im not aware of, which happens alot tbh, Enhance shammies wanted a fast OH for the FT proc, but like i said that could have changed i havent played my shaman much in the past few months

This has not been true since Ulduar came out. FT is normalized now so slow weapons are better again as they should be. This doesn't stop some baddie shamans that are still running around with fast offhands.

[shortleif]

Gonna borrow the thread a bit.

What if the choices are between a slow OH with higher iLvl, more dps etc. Or a fast OH...

How much is that speed worth considering, energy procs from OH and the higher dmg from KS that a slow off hand would do.

[bbr]

Shamans want slow offhands iirc.

[wulfen13]

Gonna borrow the thread a bit.

What if the choices are between a slow OH with higher iLvl, more dps etc. Or a fast OH...

How much is that speed worth considering, energy procs from OH and the higher dmg from KS that a slow off hand would do.

depends on how slow the slow weapon is!

if its a difference between 1.4/1.5 and 1.8 (I.e the dilema i had was Webbed death V's Daschal's bite - 1.4 156.4 dps Vs 1.8 178.9 dps)

i tried both and ultimately found that the daschals bite was better in this instance as it gave me afr more dps (had to use shiv to manage my deadly poisons a bit more though)

that was unti GSS fnially dropped for me and took the argument completely out the equation.

[IRBoNZi]

surprised i didnt see facepalm yet. I did rl tho. This is basics.

[wulfen13]

surprised i didnt see facepalm yet. I did rl tho. This is basics.

yeah indeed it is, but maybe not everyone wants to come in just to add useless crap to a question - sometimes they actually liek to help others which is nice to see

I always figures thre was no such thing as a silly question - only silly answers.

we ask questions to learnwithout them trial and error would be a big part of our lives, lol