Infraction for NBarnes: 6. Do not post unless you have something new and worthwhile to say.

• Chicken · 02/04/09, 10:17 AM

Post: Dual Wield Builds
User: NBarnes
Infraction: 6. Do not post unless you have something new and worthwhile to say.
Points: 1

Administrative Note:

Message to User:

The fine folk in the dual wielding thread are interested in dual wield DPS, and do not particularly care for your hybrid specs, or your looting woes.

Original Post:

Starting a new direction in this thread, I've been wondering and working on hybrid DK specs. As someone who often offtanks Naxx but also spends a lot of fights just DPSing, I'm very interested in optomizing my spec to both tank and DPS. As people have said, rightly, splitting my focus means I can't do either as well as a focused spec, but I'm curious to know exactly how much one would have to give up on the tanking side or DPS side in order to include some capability for the other role.

I've been working on DW variants of this, mostly due to the fact that I'm a lazy casual and only recently came into weapons better than a Runeblade of Demonstrable power; I got a RSoC and an Avool's on the same day, so DW it was. You can see my DPS gear and spec at my Armory, and my tank gear is mostly of similar grade; about 28k unbuffed HP (of course def capped).

The other thing I am now looking at is 2h vs DW. Of course, within a week of getting the solid 1hrs, a 2hr finally dropped from Naxx for me; a Wraith Spear. So now I'm looking at 2h alternatives to my current DW tank/DPS spec.

The spec itself... works for most of my needs. My DPS ends up in the 2.4 - 2.5k range on PW. One of the questions I'm working on is how much of the shortfall between my 2.4 - 2.5k and a more robust DPS output is A) gear, B) non-dedicated DPS spec, or C) I fail at DK.