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Originally Posted by Poeshoe
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Just thinking depending on your race class, there are oodles of better ratios out there for hybrids/ Warriors (proccing weapons) etc. why would you want a weapon with a huge delay when you could have an 18/26 or a 17/30 or something similar. To each his own indeed. yea i dont know much about damage bonuses, and your right i had it pinned mainly on the delay, not the ratio or the bonus, all i know is i would probably go with a moss/lammy/noct blade/sword of the mourning
Honestly, i was just trying to learn something from this thread, and by doing that i had to tromp through a bunch of troll messages and it just pisses me off that people have to be so completely E-tarded instead of trying to be remotely helpful or informative in any way. So that was my reason for posting to be honest >.<
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A lot of what you assume is true. 18/26 and 17/30 are both better ratios and would have more DPS anyway. The Wurmslayer's high damage output simply comes from its damage/delay ratio. Obviously a weapon with a better ratio would have better DPS. Also, a weapon with the same ratio would have more DPS if it were faster.
The general rule with one-handed weapons when determining DPS is the ratio. However, because the main hand damage bonus is the same for every weapon and because it's a flat bonus rather than percentage-based, if you have two 1H weapons with the same ratio, you should always pick the faster of the two. However, the actual benefit from the damage bonus is pretty small, so in the case of the wurmslayer you'd need a weapon with a close ratio in order to surpass its DPS. The fact is that the wurmslayer
feels worse because of how slow it is. You're not getting a constant spam of damage so it feels like you're doing less DPS, but the math is pretty solid in that it's stronger than most faster weapons you can buy before you're in the high 40s or low 50s.
Two-handed weapons are different (provided the 2H damage bonus is in effect). They're actually the opposite, in that when selecting between two weapons with the same ratio you actually want the one with the lower delay because the damage bonus will be higher.
Obviously, all of these considerations are moot if you're getting a weapon with a specific proc on it such as a BoC, where the proc is more important than the DPS of the weapon itself (though a BoC does have nice DPS too).