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Comment by 1898

Tier 1 of the epic hammer craftable for blacksmiths. Required 350 blacksmithing in order to learn it, and can be purchased from any of the weapon smiths in the main cities.

Haste rating means attack speed, and from what I'm told the proc on this increases your attack speed by roughly 30% (although I may be wrong, I haven't done any calculations my self because I don't have the hammer).

This item is upgradeable over time by collecting mats outside of the instance, and eventually completely instance drops.

Comment by 20786

Can someone test out the proc rate on this thing? It'd mean a lot to me and lot's of other people, I'm sure. :)

Comment by 20270

Do you have to be a master hammersmith to use it?

Comment by Zevyr

As of 2.0.7, the proc increases speed by 19.02%

Comment by PainKiller

great weapon....but for hemo IMO....the stun proc in combat just sucks, better go sword or fist

Comment by 31408

I've this hammer (fury), great weapon indeed. I did some testing with ProcWatch and after 1450 hits I got a 1.4 proc/min.

Comment by Gere

Anyone know if enchants persist through the upgrade to Dragonmaw?

Comment by noggtalnivarr

This very nice mace is crafted by having blacksmithing and being a Master Hammersmith.
You can upgrade the mace as you progress in the game. Getting the first level
simply require you to farm all the mats and getting the skill required. The second step
and last requires quite a bit more than that.

The first step - Drakefist Hammer (BS 350 skill)
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=28437

The second step - Dragonmaw (BS 375 skill)
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=28438

- The hard part here is the Primal Nether which can be found in both
normal and heroic raids. They are not so common in normal mode though.

The third and last step - Dragonstrike (BS 375 skill)
https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=28439

- The hard part here is the Nether Vortex that *only* drops in 25-man raids.

Comment by Frsh

This is amazing weapon as a ench shammy main hand. With slow speed and same (or lower) speed off stormstrike is doing enormous dmg and WF crushes everything. I would choose dual wield rather than 2h for PvP shaman couse this speed weaps are rly good. This plus different lvls of WF on both = death on sight for every classes :).

Comment by Exeight

Very, Very nice weapon for Rogue. I dropped my 375 Skinning/LW to make this, and it's not disappointing whatsoever. A great choice if you want your rogue for massive DPS while sacrificing your Subtlety tree for Combat (5 point mace skill).

Comment by 39340

Not the best tanking weapon for paladins. I got it for my paladin and I kind of regret it. Since Paladin tank with holy spell damage, my +130 spell damage one hand sword from Murmur (https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=27905) has higher SoR tick and ticks much faster than this weapon.

It however works fine with Warrior.

Comment by 25840

Get this Baby and a 1.3 or 1.4 Dagger in Offhand. With Combat Potency you melt faces.

I'm almost always on the top of SWstats face to face with a sword specced combat rogue... Sword spec is better than mace spec in raid-pve... i would love to have the same extra attack spec...

Comment by Veelo

does the drakefist buff stack with the blackout truncheon buff?

Comment by muSPK

I wonder if I should go for this weapon as an enhancement shaman or the Axe from blacksmith?

Comment by 50859

I can't decide if this would make a good tank wep b/c of how slow it is... any thoughts?

Comment by 43542

The damage shown is incorrect it should be 81.1 DPS 153-258 and the haste rating is 200

Comment by 34056

Anyone knows if I should take this over my Vindicator's Brand (https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=29124) or should i go Swordsmith for Fireguard (https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=28425)? My offhand is currently High Warlord's Quickblade (lvl 70 https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=28926).

Comment by Refre

The mace expertise has no parent on the epic BS upgradeables.

His effect makes her scale with your equip, and even if is one of the slowest weapon, devastate has no CD and also most of the skills while tanking (GCD apart).

Slow weapons are great for tanking, this one specially, big crunchy devastates with no CD? hello?

If you are thinking in fury a 20% xtra speed is way much powerfull than the axe and the sword, and this scales with your equip ... better it gets, the more powerfull the 20% speed is. Think on some quick 2.1 off-hand from the arena and make your day.

Finally if arena is your doings, the best option is the 2h MS mace.

It's up to you, but it seems for me like maces are the best.

Comment by 97

212 Haste rating is ~20.2% faster attack speed.

Comment by LeChuck

Does this haste rating stack with flurry? (+30% attack speed)... that would be really cheato... about 50% attack speed when crit+proc XD

Comment by 11556

Combat Potency + This proc + Latro's Shifting sword = pwned the speed on it after this proc would be insane giving u so much energy it wouldnt even be funny =].

Comment by 68263

Interested in haste?
Then here's a list of items that will get you lots of haste easily
Blackout Truncheon:https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=27901
-Drops from the semi-final boss in Shadow Lab
Drakefist hammer: https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=28437
-Only Blacksmiths (hammer specced) with 350+ skill can craft and upgrade this baby
Dragonspine Trophy : https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=28830
-from Gruul the Dragonslayer in Gruul's lair, 25-man boss; very low drop rate
Abacus of Violent Odds: https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=28288
By the way, there's a soft cap that blizz has on weapon speed, you cannot drop below a 1.0 weapon speed for ANY weapon. Your tooltip may say 0.8 or 0.7 speed, but the faster you can go is 1.0. Thanks for fatmike for that.
And for rogues only .. any 2 pieces of the Assassination set: https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/itemset=620

Comment by 62037

Been grinding the mats for this hammer and the upgrades like crazy recently. Now have enough soloable mats and working on nethers (farming heroics) and need only 4 vortex. Lucky enough to be in a guild doing SSC and TK.

Now all I need is BS up to the required lvl and I am good to go with a straight out upgrade from lvl 1 to lvl 3. Cant wait.

Comment by 69654

All these nice comments, and no mention of proc rate. How often does this badboy proc? I'm considering switching from my Swordsmithing to pick this up to stack with other haste gear, but I'd like to know the proc rate before I do.

Comment by 62369

farmed the mace in 2 hours - Skald in Blade's edge mountains
the way i farmed it this fast was that i always keep attacking new mobs and then sweeping strikes + whirlwind

Comment by 70588

i'm respeccing for combat maces, but would you be better off with Dragonmaw and then a Blackout Truncheon, or is there another offhand that i'm not thinking of?

Comment by 24737

For warrs...

According to one poster, 1.4 procs/min is 14 seconds per minute, is roughly 23% of the time this will be up. 23% of the time, you will have +20% *white* damage. That puts you at a little less than +5% for your white damage, which, however is not the majority as it is for rogues, but 40-50%, making it a rather marginal +2% overall damage and extra burst damage for each proc.

In other words, while it is still the best, it's not by a huge margin if you compare that 2% overall to the persistent stats lost for the proc. You can theorycraft the benefits of the rage and additional HS's, but critting does the same thing, albeit without stacking. I'm sure it's great for an awesome 10 seconds of recklessness executing though.

Comment by 53456

So i am just about to Boost my BS , is the drakefist worth it? , atm i got the aldor epic sword, should i farm it?

Comment by Squirrely

The proc only lowers the speed from 2.7 to 2.38.
Roughly 12% faster, not 20%.

Comment by 33826

this weapon for pala tanks is really nice. with the fast attackspeed when it procs = more holy dmg (from seal of blood or rightousness) witch in turn = more threat generated

Comment by 19655

With this weapon, Proc + Flurry + Heroism/Bloodlust it becomes a 1.41 second attack speed.

Comment by GenXCub

As of 2.4.2, this weapon is now no longer Unique and it is listed as One-hand, so you may offhand and/or dual wield.

Comment by 152212

The haste proc does not appear to stack, but the uptime is obviously increased by dual wielding. Combined with flurry for fury warriors, the attack speed drops to 1.9. I haven't enchanted mine with mongoose but I imagine that the lightning speed proc from mongoose would stack as well. This may also stack with haste potion.

Theorycraft needed on whether or not its more beneficial to dual wield drakefists versus dual wielding something with passive stat boosts.

Comment by 23149

IDK if this weapon is good for an enhancement shaman i woulld think so since it doesnt say UNIQUE but it IS a one hand so u could duel wield it would the buffs stack!!!!!!! just wondering!!

Comment by 157446

this and thebladefist with its haste rating is HUGE!!!

Comment by Allakhazam

and the other 2 plans to upgrade the hammer to dragonstrike?

Comment by Allakhazam

The proc is LOW on this mace - every 4th fight maybe

I hope the proc rate goes up when you upgrade it

Comment by Allakhazam

If you wanna level BS to use this mace, a good guide is posted here: http://shadowpanther.net/drakefist.htm

Comment by Allakhazam

How is the proc? How is the proc rate?

200 haste rating at 70 is about 12.6% haste?

Comment by Allakhazam

shammy wep ftw ! troll enhancement shaman ! maaaad

Comment by Allakhazam

The Procc Rate is good.
Got it as Rogue

Procc+Slice n Dice+Haste Trinket+Bladflurry=dpsssssssssssssssss
Duno if it stacks with proc from Blackout Truncheon too.

Comment by Allakhazam

If you level up BS to get this, and then drop BS altogether, can you still keep it? Or do you have to maintain Master Hammersmithing?

Comment by Allakhazam

"The proc is LOW on this mace - every 4th fight maybe

I hope the proc rate goes up when you upgrade it"

This isn't true at all, maybe 1 fight out of 10. This thing proc's usually once a fight, sometimes twice, and stacks with flurry

Edited, Mar 23rd 2007 8:05pm by akichanz

Comment by Allakhazam

does mongoose proc stack with the haste from the mace itself?

Comment by Allakhazam

Screenshot: http://worldofraids.free.fr/bc/Blacksmithing/Weaponsmith/hammersmith/hammerofdestiny.jpg

Comment by Thottbot

the previous posters comment was incorrect. this hammer actually only requires level 350 blacksmithing to make. the later tiers however require level 375 blacksmithing. all tiers of this weapon require level 70

Comment by Thottbot

If you enchant this tier of the mace, and then upgrade it, is the enchant lost?

Comment by Thottbot

The enchant dissapears, you simply make a new weapon from your old.

Comment by Thottbot

dunno what to choose, axesmith or hammersmith?
is this better than the planar edge, for an enhancement shaman?

Comment by Thottbot

What's the proc rate? 1%? 5%? 10%? No one knows how to test the proc rate EXACTLY! (hint: procwatch)

Comment by Thottbot

Combat Mace Rogue here...Took a screenshot of my character info window open while SnD, BF, the haste proc from Drakefist Hammer, and the proc from Blackout Truncheon were all up at the same time.

The 2.7 sec swing of Drakefist Hammer becomes 1.32. The 1.5 sec swing from Blackout Truncheon becomes 0.73. More than 2x swing speed FTW. With the carryover effect on BF, we're looking at Quad Damage. Sick.

Comment by Thottbot

I am a level 67 paladin and blacksmith at level 350.
I'm very curious about my speed with my https://www.wowhead.com/tbc/item=19343/scrolls-of-blinding-light and a weapon proc with this hammer and seal of the crusader.

SotC increases weapon speed by 40% and attack power by 412.
The trinket increases the haste by 330 (20,9% at level 70)
The weapon proc increases the haste by 200 (12,7% at level 70)

so correct me if i'm wrong, but this adds up to 73,6% speed increase. or 1,736x normal speed

Would this mean my weapon speed will be 0,7128?
I wanna test it, can anyone tell me if I am right about this? :S

Comment by Thottbot

Master Hammersmith Enhancement Shaman

Abacus of Violent Odds (+260 Haste)
Drakefist Hammer (+200 Haste)
Bloodlust (+30% Haste)
Flurry (+30% Haste)

That's a massive amount of haste for me. I get my hammers down so close to a 1 flat hit rate.
That mixed with Windfury is madness.

Can't wait to upgrade to Dragonmaw and get Mongoose (Increase Agility +120 and attack speed slightly) enchant on it.

Comment by Thottbot

it procs a &*!@load, found it going off like once twice sometimes 3 times a fight

Comment by Thottbot

im on my way 2 makeing this sweet mace...hard though if u dont lvl BS while ur lvling

Comment by Thottbot

Add a Haste Potion to if you're going for the realy crazy speeds m8.

BTW, made this at lvl 68, now only gtg lvl to 70 =/

Comment by Thottbot

Many people here seem to be a bit confused as to how all the haste and selfbuff speed abilities like Snd/BF/Heroism etc. stacks up. so i'll try to explain.

Lets say you have a 3.0 speed weapon and you have 3 buffs that increase your speed by 10 20 and 30% each.

Many people figure them to stack like this:

3.0*(10+20+30)%

or in other words think they get a total of 60% reduction of the 3.0 speed and get to 1.2

The above example is not what happens, this is:

3.0*( (1-10/100) * (1-20/100) * (1-30/100) )

What happens here is that all the attackspeed reductions effect each other. i'll make a fairly comprehensible example to explain:

"Imagine having a cake and you tell your 10 friends to take 10% of the cake each. you wont let all of them take a 1/10th of the cake.. you let em take a piece 1 at a time, so the first one to take a piece gets a nice big piece.. but now the cake has reduced in size, so there for the next person can only take 10% of what is left. and so on with every person taking a smaller part of the cake each time. in the end resulting with only 75%~ of the cake being taken."

the same thing applies to the attackspeed.

3.0 - 30% = 2.1
2.1 - 20% = 1.68
1.68 - 10% = 1.512

On a last comment i think all the haste procs might work together in 1 category.. since X amount of haste converts into X amount of attackspeed reduction. having an item proc 200 haste and another item proc 300 haste that might not be a 20% and 30% reduction seperatly but a 50% by itself. few comments i've seen seem to suggest that it might be 20 and 30 seperatly. but characther list suggests that it would be a 50%, using round numbers anyway.

Comment by Thottbot

I've thought about.. What if I upgrade my Drakefist Hammer to Dragonmaw, wouldn't it be possible to make another Drakefist Hammer? It's unique, but after upgrading, does it still count as i ware a Drakefist Hammer and a Dragonmaw? If not... Oh god...

Comment by Thottbot

great for fury warriors, insane attack speed if paired with the right things.

drakefist
blackout truncheon
abacus of violent odds
flurry
possibly a mongoose enchant

If they all proced at once would be pretty awesome i think

Comment by Thottbot

Thott says it does 84 dps, I thought it only did 81?

Comment by Thottbot

The patch made it stronger, along with almost all other level 70 epics.

Comment by Thottbot

yeah thunder is a fantastic mace, i have a warrior friend (tibbynoodle, jubethos) who just got it a few days ago, he respeced mace spec and loves it

Comment by Thottbot

Yes, i absolutely MUST know which would be better for my enhancement specd shammy (lvl 61 currently) On a side not, i usually out dps everyone in instances (around my level). At first, i thought i would get thunder (im probably gonna do raiding, farming, and pvp on the side) Which should i get? drakefist hammer or thunder?

And, hypothetically, that i get the drakefist hammer, what should i couple it with?

I did some calculations, if this procs along with flurry the attack speed would be as following: 2.70 - 30% = 1.89 - 19% = 1.53 (rounded)
Then: you have a 1.53 atk speed so the new regular dps before adding ap and such would be
(159 / 1.53 + 296 / 1.53)/2 = 148.7 dps with this proc and 121.75 with just flurry.

For thunder, the dps would be 156.6 with flurry and no ap... But im not sure which would be better? sure thunder would be inane with WF crits to about 2.5k+, but with drake fist, 121.75 is minimal dps with flurry without even adding in the offhand...

So, i 'm not sure which to pick, thunder or drakefist and something else

Shamanizim - Frostwolf
http://armory.worldofwarcraft.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Frostwolf&n;=Shamanizim

Comment by Thottbot

To obtain the recipe to make this awesome hammer:

Shattrath City: Kradu Grimblade
Located near the forge in the lower city.
It's like 10 meters east from the Scryers Bank.

The recipe costs 10 gold and you need Master Hammersmith and Blacksmithing 350.

But you can also buy it from the weapons trainer near the forge in Orgrimmar or Ironforge.

Comment by Thottbot

http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z102/z369stott/speed.jpg

too fast for a hammer...

Comment by Thottbot

If I were to drop Master Hammersmith for Master Swordsmith could I keep this weapon? Having the Dragonmaw and Blazefury would be a nice combo.

Comment by Thottbot

I currently have upgraded drakefist to the teir 3 dragonmaw, its nice for pvp with mace spec and the haste rating is good. the lowest ive ever got my MH speed to was 1.06 from 2.70 i had BF snd heroisim mace proc and 2 mongoose going.. was nice but rare

Comment by Thottbot

I was swordspecrogue, but since I switched to maces I just HAD to make a new thott account. Here is my weaponsmithing story.

It starts with me having a lot of extra cash and a blank profession slot right next to my master enchanting (I was a tailor for a while just to make stuff to DE, but in the end it got too expensive, dropped it at about 260), and I wanted a kickass weapon that would make everyone go ZOMGSOLEET. So like I said, I was a sword spec rogue, so I began to lvl up blacksmithing from scratch in the hopes of eventually making Fireguard. The first 100 lvls were fairly cheap, as I lvled up on rough stones and copper and bronze bars. Then it got more expensive.

The iron and steel era wasnt terrible, but over time it hurt my wallet. Once I got into the 200s, where mithril and thorium are more than a few gold per stack, I figured out how to make my enchanting pay for my blacksmithing. Id do an instance or two, get a couple of large prismatic shards, and trade them directly for the bars I needed. After I got past 300, fel iron and adamantite lvling recipies only required a few bars per lvl, instead of over half a stack per lvl. Before I knew it, I was at 350.

But then I began to think: Hey, fireguard is cool and all, but is it EPIC? I know its purple, but theres not anything distinguishing it from any other sword. Also, 1.60 speed is nice, but there are faster weapons out there for combat potency. So I decided to make this piece of crap instead.

/Sarcasm

How many items like this are you ever gonna see? EVER? Well, theres the 2 upgrade of this, but other than that theres the mace that drops off the second boss in Shadow Labrynth, with just under 70 DPS. So I payed the 100g to switch to macesmith, bought 20 primal earth for 45g, traded valuables and shards for 20 primal fire, and bought the khorium and eternium. But what's a mace without mace SPEC?

I'm doing pve, not pvp. Now before you go "OMG NOOB MACES ARE FOR PVP SWORDS ARE DA PVE U SUX!", think about it. I know that as you get further and further into raiding mobs become immune to stun. I know that swords have 5% chance on hit to hit again. BUT, and this is a big but, chance on hit for 212 haste! Thats about 15% attack speed for 10 seconds. By itself that is pretty darn good for a chance on hit, but with an abacus of violent odds, blade fury, slice and dice, you attack twice as fast. Haste also means more energy because of combat potency, which means more damage again. AND 5% crit dmg is nice also.

Not to mention the effectiveness on mobs that CAN be stunned. I have singlehandedly saved my group time and time again from wipe just by throwing in a quick stun. Tank getting hit a little too hard? A mob breaking off and going for the healer? Mace stun will fix that right up, or if ur not that lucky a kidney shot. 3 seconds might not seem like a long time but believe me, it is. Even if its not an emergency, its always good to have stuns. Ive had tanks thank me when my mace stun proced or for using my combo pts on kidney shot instead of eviscerate just because it gave them a breather, even for a few seconds.

Im working on getting the 8 primal nethers needed to upgrade this to Dragonmaw, and I just got enough honor to get the Gladiator's Bonecracker (the OH 1.50 speed gladiator mace) even though Blizz lost 500 of my honor somewhere. O well ill just /wrist more. Upgrading from 360 to 375 BS is gonna be a pain though. From 360 to 365 I've been making Felsteel Whisper Knives even though their yellow, and I was lucky enough for the Ragesteel Shoulder plans to drop for me so I'm lvling from 365 onwards with those.

The moral of this story is, for the most part swords are better than maces for PvE for raw DPS, BUT (and i cant stress this BUT enough) THIS SPECIFIC MACE is better than a comparable sword.

Wow, I typed a lot, thanks for reading!

Jurugar, Lvl 70 Combat Rogue
Madoran

Comment by Thottbot

I think this would be !@#$ing sick for my fury warrior.Another topic id li$%^& bring up while on that note,Would It be worth it to build into fury spec up to bloodthirst,And then go enuogh in arms to get mace/sword/axe spec?i'd have to skip rampage but,WOuld it be worth ti?

Comment by Thottbot

currently farming stuff for this , its ideal for pallys using seal of righteousness when your 'shockadin specced' the faster you hit the more spell damage you also do , pair this weapon with mongoose and it makes a great farming weapon , certianly wouldnt use it in instances as healing gear is much more important , but for pve and pvp its a great weapon.

Comment by psuffix

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Drakefist Hammer

	Phase 1

Item Level 107
Binds when picked up

One-Hand	Mace

159 - 296 Damage	Speed 2.70

(84.26 damage per second)
Durability 105 / 105

Requires Level 70
Requires Master Hammersmith
Chance on hit: Increases your haste rating by 212 for 10 sec.

Sell Price: 11 46

Drakefist Hammer is a one-handed Mace, Bind on Pick-up item crafted by Blacksmiths with 350 skill and Hammersmith specialization.

To craft a Drakefist Hammer, you will need 20 Primal Fire, 20 Primal Earth, 12 Eternium Bar and 8 Khorium Bar.

Drakefist Hammer can be further upgraded by Hammersmiths with 375 skill to Dragonmaw. Due to its slow attack speed and immense Haste rating proc, this is one of the best weapons you can obtain for Enhancement Shaman, Combat Rogues and DPS Warriors.

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