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Originally Posted by nicemace
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best ratio in main hand regardless of delay (obviously there is a breakpoint, where? i dont know). highest damage in offhand. delay is in(less)significant
say you have a jade mace and a sos. your sos is still significantly better ratio and should be in your main hand. don't listen to any joker that says jade mace should be main hand.
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That's highly reliant on your strength though. Damage per hit is quite low in EQ, and the weapon bonus is static, non-reliant on weapon damage, non-reliant on strength. While the SOS is higher ratio, unless you have a lot of strength gear, the jade mace will out-perform due to the passively high weapon damage bonus being applied as often as it does.
The Jade Mace in the main-hand is actually quite impressive. However, we're missing parts of the calculation: namely, just how much strength actually influences your damage.
At low levels, sure, the SOS is just better in the main-hand, but at later levels with lower STR gear the Jade Mace is substantially better.
Please try to include some actual evidence to support posts like these.
Furthermore, saying ratio doesn't matter as much in your offhand sounds misinformed. Your off-hand has no weapon bonus, so the only way to gauge it is purely based on weapon ratio--the best ratio performs best in your offhand. Compared to your main-hand, where the best ratio -often- doesn't out-perform lesser ratio, faster hitting weapons. Purely due to that weapon damage bonus.