lol blew my opinion out of the water...I'll have to get a ne 2h and see how my burst dmg does.
For the rord, my shamman dinged 40 last night, I got stormstrike and....OH MY GOD! I have seen the light. I have two Wirt's third legs
for when I dual wield but SS was hitting harder on my 3.8 speed, lvl 32 two-handed green me than my blue one-hander. And it was hitting damn hard, one-shotting yellow mobs when WF prced and I ESed right after. So Ian't imagine that going dual-wield first
would have been better. I am so looking forward to 44. Link to this Feb 9th 2008 6:17am : Logged Reply to this QuorSage7529 Eellent
lots of good answers here, but what i did on
my shammy was looked at available 2h weapons vs available DW-able weapons, then based my dision on that. the weapon upgrades i had in the offing for my shammy were at level 41 and 43 for the OH and MH resptively, while on the other hand (<.<) the 2h i was using was quite good (bonebiter axe) and available now. no sense spending money onrappy green DW weapons when ive got good a good blue set waiting at 43, so i snagged SS first. in essee, dont get dual wield until youve
got weapons that make dual wielding worth it.
I was surprised at some of the simply bad adve at the beginning of this thread. All Stormstrike is is simply an extra attk with one or both weapons every 10 sonds,oupled with a temporary debuff that ireases nature damage done to the target. Sie this disregards swingooldowns, with a 2H weapon it's basally an extra swing, and if you are not inombat, it will initate your autoattk, giving you essentially 2 simultaneous swings. With a slow swinging 2H that is a kinda big deal! Ultimately, your gain in DPS with Stormstrike is your average weapon damage iludingrits divided by 10. This is fairly easy toaulate with a theorraft mod like Dr. Damage. If you have a good 2H this may be more than you would gain Dual-Wielding 2 1Hs (taking into count
offhand penalties o). This isn't even iluding the bonus in nature damage that will grant you a few more DPS. My rommendation is always to get Stormstrike first, then Dual-Wield, but not to Dual-Wield at all until you've got all your points in Dual-Wield Spialization. This
also gives you a few levels to find 2 good and slow 1Hers, whh isn't an easy task at that level anyhow. Link to this Feb 22nd 2008 1:06pm : Logged Reply to this pwnorama48 Dent
