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devioususer wrote:
Faster weapons are more consistent in performance (DPS, Threat, Rage gen).
Why are you saying all these things? Why DPS? Why Threat? Why Rage generation? Any explanation? OF course not, there is none
A slow weapon slacks and spikes dps, threat, rage gen. Initial threat is important, and keeping initial threat is also important. A faster weapon has more consistant dps over time. Go download a damage analyzer. One that keeps % of hits, misses, crits, etc... Just because the weapon has the same dps, doesn't mean that you have the same performance.
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Not really, you also swing once exactly at the begining of the battle, so there are 7 swings for the fast one and 4 for the slow one. Also, 10 seconds is a bit cruel to chooose when comparing an 2.7 with an 1.6. For exemple, if it was 11 seconds to talk about, you would have 5 hits with the slow one and still 7 swings with the fast one.
Initial agro, IE the first 10 seconds. Not cruel. This is the part where you establish agro for the fight. And unless your in a well practiced raiding group, it's most likely that when tanking you need to establish some good base line threat.
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True, but the odds of missing in a certain interval of time is higher with the faster weapon, so it's equal here. (a weapon with 1.5 speed will miss 2 times more often than an 3.0 seconds)
You may statistically be more likely to miss with a faster weapon. But
IF you
DO miss once, a faster weapon does not lose as much as a slower weapon in the first part of a fight. Faster or slower does not change your miss rate. Faster weapons have a quicker recovery time factor to consider for Initial Agro. Which is the same idea from before, just with different words.
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Shall I begin to mention the immediate benifits of superior heroic strikes on faster weapons? Heroic strike does not require sunders to be valuable threat. Since heroic strike is a non-gcd based ability, it's your only option for excess rage.
Yes, slower weapons usually have a higher performance with devastate. But faster weapons
DO have higher performance overall.
If you do not want to use a 'faster' weapon for initial tanking, go right on ahead. No one is stopping you.