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Originally Posted by Mu
They're great for prot warriors who can't DPS for crap normally so on fights where they aren't tanking you hand them one of these and get a decent source of raid damage out of it. Almost bankrupted the guild bank though, thank god for clearing MC since the beginning of time and never getting an eye of sulfuras so lots of ingots to sell D:
My shaman friend has one, we went on test and specced stormstrike + moonkin and omghuegwrathcrits
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<-- the shaman friend. I got the guild first Nightfall and all the casters went omfg wow when I busted it out for the first time on Ebonroc/Firemaw and eventually C'Thun. I was 0/30/21 when I first got it, melee'd for about half of the fights in game but got tired of it and didn't feel like my DPS was a substantial increase from a 0/20/31 spec (All Nightfall ever needs is flurry) so I went back to a tide spec. Since then, we've made about 5 nightfalls, the rest to warriors and I only reequip it back on for fun in PvP or for CThun/Noth.
As far as the counterweight versus agility issue, I didn't know whether or not the procrate would increase or not with faster swings when I first got it but with raid buffs and my enhancement gear I gain 32% crit with GoA (intentionally stacking crit to keep flurry up for Nightfall). Seeing as 25 agility wouldn't help a terrible amount for me, since flurry's effectiveness diminishes remarkably at the level of crit I have, I took counterweight for it.
I will say that using 2, maybe 3 prot warriors that aren't actively tanking a mob with nightfall is amazing for a raid's dps. 1 nightfall at a time, you'll see the proc pop up every now and then. With 2-3, you can see it on a very reliable basis. The most beautiful place to notice the difference is when you're using 4 or 5 Nightfalls on C'Thun. Tonight, we had 2 bad burn phases where someone would kill the last stomach tentacle right as small eyes and a large eye spawns. Even with both of those, we still killed all the small eyes, the large eye and redirected enough DPS onto C'Thun and with Nightfall up, we brought him to 10% with 2 terrible burn phases.
I would say it's worth it if only to see all the casters bug out at the amount of damage they do when the proc's up.
09/28/06, 7:28 PM
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