Marrowstrike vs. Edge of Ruin...part 2

Recently I touched up on the differences between Ironsoul, Marrowstrike, and Edge of Ruin.

Well I was fortunate enough to get Edge of Ruin early on. I’ve had it for something like a week or so now, maybe even 2 weeks. I love it, it’s a huge jump in numbers from my Jawbone. I hit harder and after looking at the stats on it and comparing it to Iron soul and marrowstrike I really thought I had “THE” weapon to have before getting into 1k top end damage type weapons. The Edge has a large strength increase and appears to give a warrior everything he wants.

Well last night as luck would have Marrowstrike dropped. Now I DID have to pay someone 600g to NOT roll for it, but I wanted to test the theory out that Marrowstrike was the better of the three weapons.

When I got it and put it up side by side next to my Edge of Ruin I really wanted to kick myself in the ass. I even considered trying to trade it back to the guy I’d given the 600g to. I was patient however; and went forward with spending another little bit of money on a 85 ap enchant I even dumped some of my honor into a red 20+ Strength gem to socket the Marrowstrike with.

When all was said and done I gained something like 1% crit and lost 50ap. My damage range was also reduced by 13.

On paper I lost. :(

Ever the scientific warrior I went out to the dumbies and started swinging. First just regular swings. Marrowstrike won. The a pretty standard rotation of Rend, Mortal strike Proc Overpower and Execute...Marrowstrike won. ...”wtf is going”, on I’m thinking at this point.

So naturally I wanted to hit a gnome with it. Off to the battlegrounds.

OMG... Now I don’t know what mechanics got fugged up in the last “hot fix” but Marrowstrike hits MUCH harder than Edge of Ruin. I can’t compare it to Ironsoul because I don’t have it but in the battle of Marrowstrike vs. Edge of Ruin, while on paper Edge of Ruin would appear to be the better weapon, marrowstrike was much more to my liking. Literally of the 5 bg’s I did I was top damage in 4 of them. The 5th one was kinda a fluke and I ended up being gang raped in a 6v2 scenario in AB...I was only able to come in 3rd in overall damage done. (keep in mind I spent a great deal of time at the gy cussing at the 5 guys sitting at stables not doing a damn thing...I digress)... But YES Marrowstrike hurts people...badly

I then took things to the next level and found a 3rd person for my 3v3 team and we were off to the races.
Again I’ll say. OMG does this thing hit hard. Pretty regular 6k WHITE SWINGS crits with a back to back OP proc, ms + execute and you’re talking about blowing something up in a matter of a few seconds. Clothy is like dross in a fire (save warlocks who are just pissing me off as of late), druids can’t heal through it, rogues can’t vanish from it, mages get hit with 5k heroic throws by it, women weapons want to have it’s baby and lesser weapons aspire to BE it. We went 14-4 or 5 or something like that (I was up till 2am so excuse me if things are a bit fuzzy). 2 of those losses came at the hands of me being disconnected after I’d already entered the Arena and my team having to go 2v3.

My advice to you is get it, enchant it and kill things with it. Don’t let hunters tell you it’s a Hunter’s weapon either. Ask them how many times they plan on swinging it at something, then tell them to go STFU and need roll like you did.

So was it worth the 600g I spent? Absolutely, I got a bargain.
Randul the Dwarf has a couple of interesting comments on this whole topic as well, in fact you could say he inspired my WANT of Marrowstrike.
http://wheresmedrink.wordpress.com/2009/08/17/marrowstrike-explanation/