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Originally Posted by Zuranthium
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No it isn't. You obviously haven't even tried.
It's only a matter of how consistent someone is able to be depending on the weapon delay they are working with, and how much effort they want to put in. Back in 1999 it was common for a melee character to have zero haste, and that's still the case for a new server or a corpse run. When you have 4+ seconds to spare between swings of your Two-hander, you should absolutely be offhand weapon swapping if you care about increasing your DPS. Same for when you have 3 seconds to spare (the typical attack speed even while hasted, for characters at the levels where they have lower amounts of haste); it can be performed consistently with that much of a window.
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Are you truly hanging your augment on unhasted people in 1999 and corpse runs?
I would appreciate specifics about what gear combo makes sense outside the allegation that if you aren’t reliably clicking 6 times a second (presumed 40 delay with 3 seconds to spare) you aren’t a tryhard.
Personally with 91% self haste and a 38 delay 2h this just isn’t happening with manual mouse clicks. Not without the chance of slowing the 2h swings even on occasion which is a more significant dps loss.
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Originally Posted by Zuranthium
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If "nobody" is going to do it, even just 1 time to hit a record parse or for a solo artist challenge, or to save the party/themselves from death in a close fight, then they are bad players.
This game is not competitive, and the mechanics involved in weapon swapping are not exactly fun, so it's understandable why most EQ players are bad/lazy. But people DO care about leveling faster, so everyone should be aware of the mechanic and use it if they care to put the effort in. It's similar to only moving/casting inbetween meditate ticks as a caster. Most people are too lazy to even do that, but I did it a lot and got more performance out of my characters. It's satisfying in the cases where it makes a difference in being able to hold down multiple spawns on recharge or not.
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There are about a dozen ways to turn a battle with a hybrid and almost as many with a warrior using discs, procs and instant clicks. Outside racing and some pull tricks this is a slow game that rewards thinkers, not quick clickers. We carry wort pots, mystic cloaks, serpent blood potions, leatherfoot caps, and repeatedly quest soulfires. We deliberate over gear choices and prepare for everything…the game seldom surprises and when it does a Wuoshi Scimitar isn’t saving the day.