Edgemaster's Handguards

[jobanaaa]

http://www.thottbot.com/?i=12420
What do you think? Any use for Warrior?

[fer]

I think its good, but I dont know of other maybe much better items.
The issue is, does +7 in skill weight up 2 +20 in stat points and more defense.

[Ei]

not nearly as good as some other drops ! Like reviver claws

[zilch]

Depending on how the + skills weigh up for damage and crit ability it might be good for an orc shaman with 2h axe so you get a +12 to axe. but like other people say sacrificing 200 hitpoints or the bonus other stats prolly far outweighs that.

[Selm]

If you look at how much you miss etc when you haven't capped your skill, there seems to be a somewhat wide gap when I am training a weapon up like if I had switched. Given this observation I would say that every point in/over on a wep skill prolly helps a good bit. I miss like hell and do horrid damage even when I'm beginning to near the cap on a skill I'm raising from it being low. I was wondering this too when I saw those, if people noticed the same thing or not.

[jobanaaa]

Reiver Claws are good. no doubt. I was looking forward to them. But +7 can be somewhat better if we whould know for sure how is it working. How weapon skill 312 is better than 305.

[Doodle]

its almost +1 ½ lvl, that got to count for something

[wurzeltim]

hmmm what does +7 to axe (for example) mean, i think of +dmg oder +crit% ...
i ask because im also curious about the +5 to axe from orc racial ..go troll or orc for warrior?

[dr_AllCOM3]

for pve it might be good, but for pvp it's more or less worthless

[Tivoli]

It adds to your hit chance and your crit chance for those weapons, on raids with the high end mobs the +skill will help warriors with rage generation and holding aggro.

[Rekcah]

Tivoli = answer god :wink:


IMO, I wouldnt wear them on my warrior, as I see it a warrior needs more HP then hit/crit chance. But then again maybe you want more rage? Hard question.

[Firecrak]

Very good for a sham, if I saw a warrior wearing these, i'd laugh.....hard.

[Afgar]

Why are these even good for a sham? PvP it hardly matters. a level 50 can hit a level 56 pretty much no prob.

+7 skill is no different than +5 pve. I'm pretty sure all mobs have maxed defense for their level. I can see this helping a little bit but not much

[Firecrak]

You can't argue with +3.5~ crit chance.

[jobanaaa]

+3.5? o_O
Got any proof?

[Firecrak]

+5 to axe/sword etc has been proven to be roughly 2~% chance to crit....extrapolating that to 7, you can see where I get my info. Ask sint about his orc warrior's crit rate.

[Zuka]

Each skill point is 0.6% increased crit chance, so 5 skill points is 3% and 7 is 4.2%.

Just test it, pick some weapon skill you have that is low (like unarmed) and watch it go up as your skill increases.

You can also create a new char and test it, very fast.

Regarding the item, I personally find it useless for a warrior simple because it's mail, decent for a hunter that likes to melee, and same for a shaman (I could just say useless).

Even though at this level I had more mail pieces than plate with both my warrior and paladin, what I want to find is a plate, not a better mail with fancy color.

[Zuka]

Double post, delete please.

[wurzeltim]

god damn! now i have trobule with deciding, if i should go orc or troll =)
i like the troll style and their racials, but the orc dance and racials are also nice ... grml ;)