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GenXCub
You still run into the problem of being strike-heavy. Remember, your strikes with a single weapon are going to be at least 30% below a 2h strike (if not more than that). You're using plague strikes and blood strikes and scourge strikes all over the place that are going to be constantly doing 30% less damage than a 2h DK doing the exact same rotation.
What you'll need to do is explain how your build or rotation can get around that mountain of a hurdle.
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GenXCub
Not until 3.2. In 3.1, strikes are Main Hand only. Your offhand is doing 65% normal damage, not to mention white hits have a 21% chance to miss on a raid boss with your NoCS, whereas 2h are hit capped at 8%.
White damage is right about equal for 2h and DW, so I don't think that can be an angle to help DW in 3.1. It's just broken.
What made DW good before 3.0.8 was that you could capitalize on what DW gave you. More hits. More hits = more frequent crits = more Killing Machine. That got moved to PPM. Then there was blood caked blade, it used to allow OH procs to swing the MH for BCB like a rogue's sword spec, but that was changed. Now weapon speed is irrelevant, and all talents that favored DW now do not.
So you're looking to stick with Spell damage, and use as few strikes as possible. Perhaps the IT Machine Gun style, but even then, there's no way to say it is even competitive with 2h at that point.
With 3.2, we'll see how things measure out. I'm sure DW will be better then.
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cakeknight
ok there's two problems with your spec. First off, you designed it for 3.2, but you made it with the 3.1 talent calculators. Second, the way that DW is being made usable is with a talent in the third to last teir of the frost tree, so if you want to DW so badly I'm gona tell you the same thing that everyone else is being told when they try a DW spec for 3.2 without going into frost, it's not gona work so go full frost, or go 2 Hander
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