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Originally Posted by DrKvothe
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So you could splurge and go guardian's mace or jade mace for pre-20, although you'll be perfectly fine with sword of skyfire. The best trade-able 1h in the game for pallies just ties with baton of faith for ratio, so there's really no point at all of a 1hb/s for 20+.
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Disagree. Several points:
While there's little point in Bash as a caster interrupt sub-30 (hard to react fast enough because low level spells cast so quickly) you'll want the skill maxed as it's annoying to raise later. Also, when you land a Bash from behind it always stuns, so it's helpful with runners when you don't have a snarer and root breaks.
Unless you have your epic, the Sword of the Morning is pretty much the best agro weapon you'll have available once it starts proc'ing at L50. It is true that you have spell casting in addition to your weapon for producing agro, that does not mean weapon agro is unimportant.
The mobs you fight at 50+ hit hard and often, the extra 25 AC and 50ish HP from a good tanking shield (Clay Guardian Shield or Sarnak Battle Shield) is not wasted on a tank, nor are the resists on the SBS useless.
The epic is an agro magnet, be aware that this is not always ideal on a raid.
All-in-all, there's plenty of reason to raise your 1hs (I've seen Sword of the Morning as cheap as 400pp), 1hb less so unless you have access to a Rod of Faith.
Also, if budget allows for cheap DW pieces do buy them. I don't think AC is quite as powerful here on p99 as it was on live, but it still a bread-and-butter stat for tanks.