The irony of 3.2 was that prior to 3.2, for me at least, finding a 2 handed weapon and winning a roll was as likely as finding a nude supermodel in my bed and my wife saying, “go for it”.
After 3.2 though weapons appear to abound for me. Well abound is a strong word, but lets say that of the 8 or so HToC I’ve done I already have Edge of Ruin and Peacekeeper blade along with upwards of 8 epic items both DPS and tanking pieces. Quit literally I have so much gear between my tanking, Arms set, Fury set, and PVP set, oh and tanking PVP set that almost all my bag space is covered in gear. Hell I have 7 leg pieces. Why 7 you ask? Well my staggering leg plates provide a nice 81 def rating that I can’t make def cap without...and I have 3 valor pieces as well as a Conquest Emblem belt, but if I drop my staggering leg plates in exchange for my Valor leg plates...I am no longer at def cap. It’s really sad to be honest with you, I’m in def cap limbo with old gear. THEN if you take into account HIT rating certain items take a back seat when I go fury to get at hit cap so lets just say the "equipment manager" has 7 different "sets" and on each set more than 3 pieces are swapped out on 3 of them ALL gear is swapped out...
On to the weapons though.
Ok lets face it, running 25 man nax every week is...well weak. When you can damn near completely gear out with just the drops from Toc and HToc. In fact they drop two 2 handers that are on par, arguably better, that 10 man Uldar gear (ironsoul)
I’ve warned you already to get in while the getting is good because I suspect blizzard is going to come to its senses and either nerf the hell out of some of the HToC gear and or completely remove the farm badges mode.
Are you PVP minded? Trust me when I say as a warrior getting a weapon PRE 3.2 depended entirely on your ability to get into a nax group. Either that or pvp with a Titansteal destroyer. Now if you Run HToC one time each day you have the opportunity to get TWO weapons out of their better than most Nax 25 weapons. So let me just say if you don’t have HToC on farm mode you truly deserve to get what you deserve....NOTHING. Also ad a weekly 10 man Uldar run too.
If you’re a fresh 80 then you should be farming REGULAR HToC like the place is going out of style. You can nearly gear up in TOC to get to HToC...from a dps perspective at least.
Let me give you some HINTS on how to FARM.
1. BE THE TANK.
2. Create your own group
3. Fill it with warlocks, priests and rogues, shamans and druids
4. Invite NO Pallys, DKs or Hunters.
5. FARM
I was in LFG yesterday and I see a full 5 plate wearers going into HToC. This is ignorant on so many levels I can’t even begin to measure the FAIL of groups like this when you’re trying to gear up, thankfully it was DKs and pallys, way to use your heads warriors.
If you cannot tank then at least create the group and control who you invite. If you HAVE TO invite a plate wearer invite a pally for heals NOT DPS.
So I’ve thus far been unable to get either Ironsoul or Marrowstrike to drop.
I did manage to pick up Edge of Ruin. It’s nice, I like it, it hits hard, it has armor pen, I get 5% more crit with it. I likes it, I can go fury, though I am arms now and doing nice dps.
So the question has been asked, which is better.
Ironsoul?
Edge of Ruin
Marrowstrike?
Well marrowstrike believe it or not has, at least on paper, been proven to give more DPS for your buck than either of these three weapons (I know it’s a polearm). I can’t test this but do know EJ has said it does so it must be true...I Guess.
Does anyone have any REAL LIFE (in game) data to support this claim?
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I'm so pissed, unknown to many, on Tuesday, Blizzard implemented whats called a "hot fix" its basically a debugging with a few fixes. PRE-TUESDAY I passed Rune Edge to my friend because it had less DPS than Death's Bite and wasn't an upgrade for me, even though it has great ArP.
One of the things they "fixed" was they upped the DPS on the weapon PAST Death's Bite (up to 212 from 203)So that its now better than mine, and I passed on it before.
I've done 5 runs and haven't seen it sense!
N3RD R4G3!!1!!
I’m willing to bet money that they will nerf the dps again. I mean when you can get a weapon from a heroic that is on par, arguably better, than a 25 or 10 man raid something just doesn’t add up.
Again I’m gonna say to everyone, get in while the getting is good because I suspect blizzard is going to come to it’s senses.
I got some new tanking shoulders and a new dps helm from ToC last night (replaced my titansteel helm)
Which of 3.2 the one thing I have to bitch about is the death of titansteel.
1. to expensive to make
2. You can get easy upgrades to just about anything titansteel from reg ToC and NOT have to spend money getting it.
My titansteel weaponry and armor sales have dropped to almost nothing. I’ve stopped making or advertising them like I used to. I’m simply selling the ore these days.
AND Eternal belt buckles. With all that new gear going around people are needing buckles. On more than one occasion the AH ahs been completely out and I’ve sold them in the matter of moments when listing them at 60g a pop.
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