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Betrayer of Humanity Vs. Aesir's Edge
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Escutcheon
Has there been much extensive testing done with Sword spec vs. Mace vs. Poleaxe recently?
I know one extra hit at most every 6 seconds sounds lame, but considering that they can both crit and in a perfect situation that'd be 400% damage every 6 seconds. I know it doesn't exactly go that way, but I wonder if the dps loss is really so significant.
I guess there are things to consider such as; does it proc off of special abilities and if/when it does does it just mimic the ability it proc'd from?
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divineplyr
Has there been much extensive testing done with Sword spec vs. Mace vs. Poleaxe recently?
I know one extra hit at most every 6 seconds sounds lame, but considering that they can both crit and in a perfect situation that'd be 400% damage every 6 seconds. I know it doesn't exactly go that way, but I wonder if the dps loss is really so significant.
I guess there are things to consider such as; does it proc off of special abilities and if/when it does does it just mimic the ability it proc'd from?
ive been doing ALOT of testing, even had to spec both axe spec and sword spec as my duals and spent hundreds of gold regemming and reglyphing to find the answer to this myself.
All i can say is if that sword spec procs more often than ever 6 seconds and perhaps a small crit chance (like lets say Sword Spec: has a chance to create and extra attack every 6 seconds and the extra attack crits) then that would be in par with the current axe/polearm spec. However, as it stands even if you attain a higher level sword (this case being aesir's edge) than your current axe (Betrayer of Humanity) the axe spec would still be better.
There were some times in which teh sword spec would beat that arms spec, however on those cases almost all of my double strikes actually crit and that is just a perfect environment scenario.
Therefore: Sword spec - the sucks
Axe spec - clearly superior
This is quite frustrating as the only weapon upgrade for Betrayer of Humanity in ulduar is lotrafen or that dark edge of depravity.
Also i tried fury DPS with both aesirs edge and Betrayer of Humanity and guess what, Sword spec arms still yielded a higher DPS on single targets, however on controlfights such as yogg saron and freya i would recommend fury over arms.
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