Dual wield on warrior

[DeMenT]

Hi.

I sDual wield on a warrior any good, or should you just use 2H

[Karza]

IMHO, Dual Weild is not worth it. The offhand miss rate is just too high to make it effective. I consistently do more damage with a 2 Hander taking the same amount of damage.

As it stands now, Sword and Board or 2 Hander are more viable options.

[Hellhammer]

Karza is right... the dual wield method is just not effective right now due to the very high miss rates. ore damage can be dealt with a 2H weapon. I will never use a sword/shield combo, but that's just my playing style.:)

[travin]

So I am just not sure about this... everyone talks about miss rates... but it seems that I kill things just as fast with dual wield. I have no hard evidence on this statement... just a feeling. Can anyone point me to an add-on that is a reliable source for DPS? That can be reset. I want to try and get some harder data on this. All I ever hear people say is you miss a lot! Well you swing a lot too. I know you hit more with a 2hander, but does your DPS really get higher then dual wield? I do the hover over the dmg in your character screen thing. And it looks like dual wield does more dps then my 2hander. Says something like 31.7 main and 23.4 off hand and with a 2 hander it says 40.3. This was a few levels ago at level 25. So if that info is correct. Then I would be doing like 55 dps with dual and 40.3 with 2hander... don't know... but I want to find out.


Has anyone really looked into the dps on these? Or do we just get pissed off from the misses and say it is crap. (I say we because other then my curiousness at the moment I think it is crap too) I am just so disillusioned with my warrior I can barely login to the game. I am just looking for the silver lining...

[Ei]

imo dual wield shouzld be rogue&hunter only!

[Ellestar]

Cosmos shows DPS, % of misses etc.

Also, you can try Showdown UI mod. http://www.wowrankings.com/showdown_manager.htm

Blah blah blah.. Ok, wtf does this thing do then?
The Showdown! UI mod is a quick combat status visual, that allows you to skip the use of the combat log, and rely on a graphical version of the battle. It keeps track of the following information durring the course of the battle for both the Player and the Target:

• Total Damage Done.
• DPS over the course of the combat round.
• Total Hits, Misses, Parries, Dodges, Blocks and Resists.
• Total Percents for each of 4)
• Total Estimated Hitpoints Remaining.
• Combat Damage Ticker

Other information that is displayed:
• Total 'In-Combat' Time
• Battle Balance Indicator.
• Damage reduction of the target. (Melee attack only)
• Players current Armor.