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LOL...Why cant enhance Shaman go for 2H?
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GenXCub
the largest reasons come from the fact that Blizzard points shamans towards dual wielding. If you look at Dual Wielding for Death Knights, it's like an afterthought compared to the nice talents shamans get to benefit dual wielding.
Do BIG BIG criticals matter if, over the course of 20 seconds, you do the same amount of damage? I'm sure PvP would be the only place where that matters, and if you're basing stuff off criticals when everyone has resilience out the butt, then it's not a very good decision.
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2H'ers are bad for sustained dps because of all the abilities that proc for us when we crit. The more times you swing in a given period of time, the more critical strikes you can get in that time. Keeping up flurry is a big deal for our dps as it allows us to stack maelstrom procs faster. Lava lash is an instant attack that requires dual wielding to use. Storm striking with 1 handers does similar dmg as with a 2H (provided using same item lvl weapons). Besides that, dual wielding scales better with AP and with enough hit will beat out the 2H in white dmg.
On a lvl 80 dummy, I go from around 2k dps dual wielding to 1.6k dps with an equivalent 2H.
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Gore, actually the weapon speed has little to do with the windfury cooldown. If the only thing we cared about was being able to windfury every 3 seconds, we'd want weapon speeds (after haste) to be divisible by 3, like 1.5 and 1.0... as it stands now, with 2- 2.6 speed weapons, it can only WF once every 5.2 seconds, that's a lot of wasted time after the 3 second cooldown expires. You'd certainly do far more WF's with daggers hasted down to 1.0.
The reason you want slow weapons is so that when WF does proc, it hits harder, as well as Stormstrike, as they both do damage based on the listed weapons' damage.
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