Dual Wield

[Nugusta]

Thinking of making a dual wielding fury warrior, provided that can work, did some working out comparing rogue to a warrior. Since warriors can't get any form of increasing offhand damage and it starts at 50% of the base damage, I decided to go for Imp. Battle Shout 5.

Dual Wield Comparison

Im. Battle Shout 5 = 25%
Dual wield Spec 5 = 50%

E.g. Weapon = 85 damage


Warrior

Mainhand = 100% base damage

(46.25+185+85) = 316.25

85 base damage
185 damage battle shout
+25% more battle shout = 231.25
+ weapon damage = 316.25
+ str modifier =

Providing all the above is correct then offhand = 273.75

offhand = 50% less base weapon damage

(46.25+185+42.5) = 273.75


Rogue

(85*50%) 85+42.5 = 127.5 = Dual Wield Spec rank 5

85 base damage
+50% damage rank 5 dual wield = (85+42.5) = 127.5
+str/agil modifier =



If anyone knows the formula on how str and agil effect this would be helpful.
Or an estimated guess at what agil/dex a Rogue and warrior have at 60.

Or just say if its completely wrong

[Nugusta]

Crud Fuzzy mind moving this to Class Discussion? Thanks in advance..

[Solid]

Since the Mortal Strike change most warriors seem to be considering a DW Fury spec build, I think I may try it myself, sounds fun. Not sure how useful Bloodthirst is tho for a 30point pre-req in talent tree, Mortal Strike seems to be a better purchase overall. Flurry is a damn nice passive tho, shame u can't spec Flurry AND Weapon Spec (EG Axes to improve Crit) cos that woulld be awesome, a evenly split Arms/Fury spec!

[Nugusta]

Came up with this relatively quick.

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Fury Warrior - Savage wannabe.

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Fury

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Booming Voice
Rank: 5/5

Rank 1 : Increases the duration of your Battle Shout and Demoralizing Shout by 10%.
Rank 2 : 20%
Rank 3 : 30%
Rank 4 : 40%
Rank 5 : 50%

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Cruelty
Rank: 5/5

Rank 1 : Increases your chance to get a critical strike with melee weapons by 1%.
Rank 2 : 2%
Rank 3 : 3%
Rank 4 : 4%
Rank 5 : 5%

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Improved Demoralizing Shout
Rank: 5/5

Rank 1 : Increases the Attack Power reduction of your Demoralizing Shout by 5%.
Rank 2 : 10%
Rank 3 : 15%
Rank 4 : 20%
Rank 5 : 25%

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Piercing Howl
Rank: 1/1

New Spell:
Instant cast
10 Rage

Causes all enemies near the warrior to be dazed for 6 sec.

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Improved Battle Shout
Rank: 5/5

Rank 1 : Increases the Attack Power bonus of your Battle Shout by 5%.
Rank 2 : 10%
Rank 3 : 15%
Rank 4 : 20%
Rank 5 : 25%

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Enrage
Rank: 5/5

Rank 1 : Gives you a 8% melee damage bonus for 4 swings any time you are the victim of a critical strike.
Rank 2 : 16%
Rank 3 : 24%
Rank 4 : 32%
Rank 5 : 40%

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Death Wish
Rank: 1/1

New Spell:
Instant cast
10 Energy
3 min cooldown

When activated, increases your Physical damage by 20% and makes you immune to fear,
but lowers your defense against all types of damage by 20%. Lasts 30 sec.

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Improved Intercept
Rank: 2/2

Rank 1 : Reduces the cooldown of your Intercept ability by 5 sec.
Rank 2 : 10 sec

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Flurry
Rank: 5/5

Rank 1 : Increases your attack speed by 10% for your next 3 swings after dealing a critical strike.
Rank 2 : 15%
Rank 3 : 20%
Rank 4 : 25%
Rank 5 : 30%

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Bloodthirst
Rank: 1/1

Rank 1 : Activates after dealing a killing blow. Your next weapon attack deals 100% increased damage

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Fury Total: 35 points.

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Arms

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Deflection
Rank: 5/5

Rank 1 : Increases your Parry chance by 1%.
Rank 2 : 2%
Rank 3 : 3%
Rank 4 : 4%
Rank 5 : 5%

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Improved Rend
Rank: 3/3

Rank 1 : Increases the bleed damage done by your Rend ability by 15%.
Rank 2 : 25%
Rank 3 : 35%

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Tactical Mastery
Rank: 3/5

Rank 1 : You retain up to 5 points of rage when you change stances.
Rank 2 : 10 points
Rank 3 : 15 points
Rank 4 : 20 points
Rank 5 : 30 points

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Improved Thunder Clap
Rank: 3/3

Rank 1 : Increases the damage done by your Thunder Clap by 8%.
Rank 2 : 16%
Rank 3 : 24%

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Deep Wounds
Rank: 2/3

Rank 1 : Your critical strikes cause the opponent to bleed, dealing 20% of your melee weapon's average damage over 12 sec.
Rank 2 : 40%
Rank 3 : 60%

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Arms Total: 16

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[sko]

Dualwield misses shitloads...

[Nugusta]

19% more. But can be modified by items with %chance to hit.

How does dual wield work in WoW?

I guess the offhand has a base chance to swing along with main hand? If that's the case then I'll gladly miss out on the 19% loss in accuracy for more damage.

[Driwen]

Originally Posted by Nugusta

19% more. But can be modified by items with %chance to hit.

How does dual wield work in WoW?

I guess the offhand has a base chance to swing along with main hand? If that's the case then I'll gladly miss out on the 19% loss in accuracy for more damage.

I heard it was 25% chance more on missing (meaning [chance to miss] = 0.75* [base chance other weapons have])?

And weapons swing on their own speed, so there is no swinging along with main hand like daoc. If main weaponspeed is 2 sec and offhand is 1 than offhand will swing every sec while main every 2 (atleast that is how I understood it). However offhand does take a penalty on the damage it does, I think it was 50% of the damage it should be doing, but it could be 50% of the base weapondamage. I wouldnt know for sure.

[Nugusta]

How does Dual Wielding work?

Off-hand attacks deal 50% of the weapon's designated damage.
Your base chance to miss when Dual Wielding is 24% as compared to 5% when wielding a single weapon.

^From classesofwarcraft


Hence why I calculated the damage variances between 2 different skills for Rogue and Warrior

I guessed some people would tell me just to roll a rogue so I wanted to see the difference in damage.

[Ashandar]

Originally Posted by sko

Dualwield misses shitloads...

What he said

6 misses in a row is not close to:-

"I'll gladly miss out on the 19% loss in accuracy...."

And its not only me and it is a regular occurance!

Although when it does hit, can be nice

(granted this observation was at approx lvl 30 so who knows at 60?)

[Nugusta]

25% chance to miss, I guess it will miss alot more in general but thats 25% chance to miss per swing per weapon.
If the weapons swing at different speeds as stated above your dps will still be high.

Either way, I'll test it in FB, was just an idea to make the class since it has alot of skills that increase attack speed.

[k9awya]

warriors miss more than enough without dw

[Nugusta]

Originally Posted by k9awya

warriors miss more than enough without dw

Bug or fact?

[Galelawyn]

fact and "working as intended)

[Nugusta]

Originally Posted by Galelawyn

fact and "working as intended)

That doesn't tell me much.

Fact as in it's known to the players.
Working as intended in Daoc terms?

[gia]

I've tried all kinds of weapon setups while leveling my current warrior in .kr OB and dual wield isn't bad.

The overall dps is more or less the same as an equivalent 2hander. Misses are not a problem as long as you're not trying to fight stuff that is more than 2 levels above you.

A tip for dual weilders: sharpening stones! they help a lot when using fast weapons.

Anyway what is better between dw/2h depends on what kind of build you're going for and what skills you are going to focus on. Many skills heavily favor slow weapons: overpower, mortal strike, retaliation, slam. Although with dw you're swinging more often so there are more chances for dodge->overpower.

They are both viable imo.

Oh and btw there is nothing in a fury build that says you have to go dw , fury works great with two handers as well. The only talent that is only effective with dual is unbrindled wrath and after trying it I don't consider it worth the points. One point in anger management is worth more than 5 in unbrindled wrath.