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Originally Posted by Samoht
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A pair of Acid Etched Short Swords at 37 would be unstoppable, and cost less than 1k total. Replace one with an Ykeshan War Club at 40. These drop like candy for people camping the Hierophant's cloak in Seb, so they'll be even cheaper. Sure the ratios suck, but you should have haste by then, and the stun proc is an aggro magnet.
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These (and the mechanicly identical SSoY) will be worse agro than fast .5 ratio weapons until you can get your dex up enough to proc them with decent frequency. For reference, a 105 dex gives 1 proc/min main-hand and 0.5 proc/min off-hand, scaling to double that frequency at 210 dex (keeps getting better up to the dex cap of 255.) If your dex is 105 and your group is killing a mob every 30 seconds you won't even average one proc per mob when dual wielding proc'ing weapons and you'll give up a lot of threat and a fair bit of damage output for that occasional proc.
I found with my warrior that proc'ing weapons available before L46 were very weak, you're way better off working with casters who aren't afraid to root and rogues/monks/rangers who have enough sense to back off to max melee range. Root plus better damaging weapons and using Taunt when you have to works so much better than relying on procs.
At L46+ there are significantly better proc'ing weapons available. My warrior gets excellent mileage out of the "noob combo" of Sarnak Warhammer (8/20 procs stun) and Trochilic's Skean (10/25 and proc's a v high agro stun poison but is off-hand only.) Any time I can group with a slower, especially a shaman who can also buff my dex, I'll swap out some hp/ac gear for dex gear and ride the procs. So long as the slower is alert enough to wait for a proc or a couple rounds of my attacks before pissing the mob off it works well. The Sarnak Warhammer sells for around 3k these days, not a huge sum at L46. The Skean is a nodrop dropped 100% of the time by Renux who is killed as part of the Rogue epic, so make friends with somebody who farms Rogue epic or a Rogue actually doing it for himself (or try to buy loot rights I guess.)