Classic mechanic discussion: fast weapon/white damage aggro

[Borador]

Originally Posted by Vayder [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

It's true on live many warriors would dual wield lamentations, but...

1) How many pickup group rogues had epic?
2) How many pickup group monks had epic/SoS or T-staff?
3) How many pickup group melee had better than FBSS haste?
4) If swing speed was what mattered, why did warriors use dual Lamentation rather than dual Jade Mace?

The reality is that Lamentation drops frequently, had stats that were overvalued, a graphic people really liked, and the average pickup group required you to generate far less hate than you need to here.

The mechanics for hate are well known, readily available and are implemented on the server.

someone beat me to it, but lammys were common and people overvalued the stats... Like you said, which is why duel jade maces weren't as common, although that's what I used. Literally 2 seconds headstart and I had zero aggro issues.

My rogue was epic'd pretty quickly as well and it was easy to see the difference when a tank had fast weapons, give them a few seconds and aggro was fine. The only thing proc weapons did was allow you to BS sooner if they got a lucky proc early.