And just when I declared I’ll spec swords…
Axe vs Sword, Talents, patch 2.3 October 23rd, 2007# Humans: Sword Skill now increases the critical strike chance with swords and two-handed swords by 1%.
# Orcs: Axe Skill now increases the critical strike chance with axes and two-handed axes by 1%.
Source. Anyone find it funny they didn’t mention mace skill for humans? Anyway, 6% crit for having an axe, that’s pretty tempting, and more then that:
New decapitator looks BAD-ASS. Screw the puny swords, screw the maces, axes are THE MANLIEST ;).
BTW: Many opinions and some math (including the flawless mace vs sword spec math) in this topic.
Terhix
October 23rd, 2007 at 4:39 pm
So Basically if your an orc go for axes and if your a human go for swords……..thank god i alredy use swords
October 23rd, 2007 at 7:53 pm
any new swords like that axe?
October 24th, 2007 at 7:36 am
S3 Sword: http://www.warriorpwns.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/10/greatsword.jpg
The difference is minor, it’s not possible to do mathematical estimation to see which spec outperformes the other. Sword gives you more rage and gives very small (but still) chance to land double-crit burst.
There will be people trying to convince you some spec is better then the other, but it all depends. I’m planning an arena setup with a mace rogue now, we have yet to see how we both spec after 2.3, but the point is - if you have mace rogue to stun your target, mace spec is not so useful it would be when you are the only guy stunning in the group.
There are few factors that makes Axe good for me, I’m an orc so I’ll get extra bonus for it (I’ve small bonus for it now, but it’s more a PvE thing atm.) in form of 1% crit, and the more crit I’ve the easier it’s for me to keep the flurry up, the more rage I get, the more damage I deal and so on.
If I were specced for 35/23/3 or 33/25/3 then it wouldn’t be so big problem, sure blood frenzy also benefits from crits, but it’s not as critical in such build as flurry is in hybrid build.
October 24th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
sweet thanks for doin the math for me its really usefull lol seareously im not kiddin lol