April News/Discussions

[Concillian]

In a move that should make a lot of warriors and shaman happy,with Patch 2.4.2, a lot of the Epic BOP Weaponsmithing weapons are losing their 'unique' and/or 'main-hand' designations.

The main interesting point associated with this is DW 2 Dragonstrike hammers. The superior scaling of haste makes these semi-lackluster looking weapons at first appearance (only 97 DPS listed instead of 103 DPS for badge weapons and 107 for sunwell drops) actually factor out to be very strong DPS if you have T6+ gearing level and comparable to the badge weapons if you have T5ish level gear.

Given their relative ease in making (it takes significant mats, but can be entirely soloed with the removal of bindings on Primal Nethers and Nether Vortices), they are an attractive option for people wishing to spend badges on other equipment or gems instead of the weapons.

I already have one Dragonstrike (I bought all the Vortices and Primal Nethers from the AH with money earned from dailies) and will likely forge another just for fun even though I don't DW all that often.