Itemization problem, please add your 2 cents

[Griffonheart]

Thus, the slower the weapon, the bigger the damage range, and the more damage your instant attack deals.

This is the part I don't understand. Wouldn't warrior use slower weapons too? But so far they have no complaint about using weapon with 2.0 or quicker weapon.

[Snake-Aes]

It's because, while they do lose devastate damage, they gain a LOT from heroic strikes. Those are weapon damage + some damage, and are "on-next-attack" mechanics. Those benefit so greatly from a fast attack speed(and the smoother rage income) that they get the better end of the deal with a fast weapon.

[Moses]

It's because, while they do lose devastate damage, they gain a LOT from heroic strikes. Those are weapon damage + some damage, and are "on-next-attack" mechanics. Those benefit so greatly from a fast attack speed(and the smoother rage income) that they get the better end of the deal with a fast weapon.

Soooo change HotR to 50% damage and give it some other boosting effect, like better AP scaling or something.... of course that is just gonna push us back into caster weapons again prolly. Maybe make it weapon DPSx300%... might even get away with 400%. The better they make HotR work with weapon dps though the less likely we are to use spell damage weapons which are what is (as of right now) the best bet still right?

[Griffonheart]

It's because, while they do lose devastate damage, they gain a LOT from heroic strikes. Those are weapon damage + some damage, and are "on-next-attack" mechanics. Those benefit so greatly from a fast attack speed(and the smoother rage income) that they get the better end of the deal with a fast weapon.

Thank you Snake. I've never leveed a warrior above 10 so could use as much info as I can ^_^

[Blutreich]

it's a warrior tank weapon who cares?

i'd rather complain about our best tank weapon being
Titansteel Guardian
damn being stuck to caster weps!

[Rasmfrackn]

Heroic Strike is the problem... Make heroic strike scale with weapon speed but leave it as an ONA, and rip out the stupid inherent threat (damage for threat is the way to go these days), and everybody gets to use nice slow weapons like we're supposed to. We have HotR, they have devastate, DKs have a bajillion instant attacks or something.

-- And yeah... the fact that HotR isn't enough to make us want to use melee weapons in the first place is another big problem we need to work out.

[Warcraft]

Well why don't all of you guys, or at least the ones with beta access, head over to Ghostcrawler's feedback thread and point out that Hammer of the Righteous needs to work equally well with fast weapons, since there are so many of them? I've only seen a few comments about it there. Most people just praise it for being a fun talent and leave it at that.

[Vanifae]

Well why don't all of you guys, or at least the ones with beta access, head over to Ghostcrawler's feedback thread and point out that Hammer of the Righteous needs to work equally well with fast weapons, since there are so many of them? I've only seen a few comments about it there. Most people just praise it for being a fun talent and leave it at that.

I created a thread about it and Dorvan has another thread and many people mentioned that.

[Jessiespano]

The spell damage weapon issue is why I'm in favor of changing Reckoning into a mechanic that increases our threat from weapon damage, either through something like Necrosis or the old Windfury Totem as holy damage. Either way, our auto attack damage leading to Holy damage (and thus more RF threat) would help to make actual weapon damage matter. it still doesn't really change the whole weapon speed problem, but it might be enough to make us forget about Titansteel Guardian.

[Sharlos]

It's because, while they do lose devastate damage, they gain a LOT from heroic strikes. Those are weapon damage + some damage, and are "on-next-attack" mechanics. Those benefit so greatly from a fast attack speed(and the smoother rage income) that they get the better end of the deal with a fast weapon.

Soooo change HotR to 50% damage and give it some other boosting effect, like better AP scaling or something.... of course that is just gonna push us back into caster weapons again prolly. Maybe make it weapon DPSx300%... might even get away with 400%. The better they make HotR work with weapon dps though the less likely we are to use spell damage weapons which are what is (as of right now) the best bet still right?

I'd rather change Heroic Strike to scale with weapon speed like SoR dos.

Pladins used to favour fast weapon speed until they changed SoR to scale with weapon speed, they should do the same with heroic strike

[Spacemagic]

Do DK's use a 2-hander to tank or two 1-handers?? if it's the latter, then maybe this sword is for them. It seems even faster than warrior tank weapons im used to...Sun Eater 1.60, King's Defender 1.60...etc. I just saw it and thought DK.

[Grehn|Skipjack]

Do DK's use a 2-hander to tank or two 1-handers?? if it's the latter, then maybe this sword is for them. It seems even faster than warrior tank weapons im used to...Sun Eater 1.60, King's Defender 1.60...etc. I just saw it and thought DK.

Deathknights use 2hers to tank.

[Norrath]

Thus, the slower the weapon, the bigger the damage range, and the more damage your instant attack deals.

This is the part I don't understand. Wouldn't warrior use slower weapons too? But so far they have no complaint about using weapon with 2.0 or quicker weapon.

Warriors have one instant attack that deals damage based on weapon damage: Devastate. It does 50% damage.

Plus, there's Heroic Strike. The faster the weapon, the more Heroic Strikes.

Warriors use slow weapons when OTing because there's not enough rage to use Heroic Strike effectively.

[Spacemagic]

Do DK's use a 2-hander to tank or two 1-handers?? if it's the latter, then maybe this sword is for them. It seems even faster than warrior tank weapons im used to...Sun Eater 1.60, King's Defender 1.60...etc. I just saw it and thought DK.

Deathknights use 2hers to tank.

o well, i tried

[Lore]

As a few people have mentioned - making Heroic Strike scale with weapon speed fixes the problem nicely.

DK's want slow weapons, Paladins want slow weapons, Warriors want slow weapons sometimes but fast weapons most of the time. Not a hard fix.