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drats · 05/19/07, 3:59 AM

Lujaar, Disquette has been making a shaman dps simulator script:

[Shaman] Itemizing Enhancement at 70

The quick answer is that slow offhands are better than fast ones. I didn't really believe it either until this week. Pick up a fast dagger and slow cleaver and try it our yourself.

When my MH was 2.2 and my offhand was 1.8, I found that my offhand was using a lot of my WF procs. I actually think the bug isn't as simple as WF5/4 working around the lockout, but that's a different matter. What's important is that I switched to a 2.6 offhand (a green that is only 59dps) and saw a significant increase in dps. Since I probably won't get a chance to clear Gruul again before the patch, I'll have to run some instances to get more specific numbers.

If there is a 3s cooldown on WF, you want your mainhand to attack as close to 3s as possible. The best way to achieve this is get a weapon that has a flurried speed of 1.5 or slightly above. In the WF5/5 world, this will basically ensure that your offhand won't be eating your mainhand windfury procs very often.

05/19/07, 3:59 AM	#254
drats Don Flamenco drats Tauren Shaman <Optimus Prime> Kel'Thuzad	Lujaar, Disquette has been making a shaman dps simulator script: [Shaman] Itemizing Enhancement at 70 The quick answer is that slow offhands are better than fast ones. I didn't really believe it either until this week. Pick up a fast dagger and slow cleaver and try it our yourself. When my MH was 2.2 and my offhand was 1.8, I found that my offhand was using a lot of my WF procs. I actually think the bug isn't as simple as WF5/4 working around the lockout, but that's a different matter. What's important is that I switched to a 2.6 offhand (a green that is only 59dps) and saw a significant increase in dps. Since I probably won't get a chance to clear Gruul again before the patch, I'll have to run some instances to get more specific numbers. If there is a 3s cooldown on WF, you want your mainhand to attack as close to 3s as possible. The best way to achieve this is get a weapon that has a flurried speed of 1.5 or slightly above. In the WF5/5 world, this will basically ensure that your offhand won't be eating your mainhand windfury procs very often.