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Originally Posted by Goregasmic
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Thanks for doing the math!
If OP mentions midrange weapons I'd guess he's nowhere close to 255 dex and doesn't get raid buffed but I could be wrong.
Hate from procs cap at 400 and its mostly procs with a lot of poison counters IIRC. Frostbringer and wavecrasher have solid hate procs but I'm not sure they go to 400. I know frostbringer is considered up there for hate generation but I've hardly ever seen wavecrasher mentionned, maybe because it is lesser known, maybe because it is so expensive for what it is.
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No problem.
From my understanding the 400 hate cap only applies to the non damage portion of the spell. So the Slow in the case of Wavecrasher, and the AC reduction in the case of Frostbringer. On top of that you should get 1 hate per point of damage done.
This means Frostbringer will do up to 460 Hate per proc, assuming the AC reduction gets to the cap of 400 hate. This is because Frostbringer proc also does 60 direct damage.
If memory serves they changed how much hate slow generates somewhat recently, so I don't know of Wavecrasher would still cap at 400 for the slow portion of the proc. But if it does it would get 400 hate per proc plus an extra 200 hate per minute. I forgot that Wavecrasher is a DoT. You'd get 20 hate per tick.
Regardless, Wavecrasher isn't mentioned much because it is a weird weapon. It procs a 20% slow at level 1, but the slow only lasts 1 minute. This means you need to keep the weapon equipped for a good portion of the fight to keep the slow going.
However, at level 1 you'd be better off just killing mobs faster with something like Venemous Axe of the Velium Brood, which also procs at level 1. The ratio on axe is only slightly worse than Wavecrasher, and the 85 DD will kill lower level mobs, or significantly damage them.
At level 60 Wavecrasher isn't great because the ratio isn't very good, and you are spending a good amount of the fight with it equipped. While you'll get a 20% slow, you'll also drag the fight out longer by killing slower. So you probably don't save much HP at the end of the day. You also get access to better slow procs that last longer, like Truncheon of Doom or Swarmcaller (depending on classs) or Willsapper.
Wavecrasher would have been more interesting on P99 if it was equippable in offhand. Then you could dual wield willsapper and wavecrasher to try and apply a slow as fast as possible. On P99 people generally do more DPS than what the content was designed for, since a lot of players are heavily geared. So the defensive nature of Wavecrasher isn't as appealing on P99. On live where less people had slow weapons and people had worse weapons + lower DPS, it was probably a nicer weapon.