In my opinion it doesn’t matter much. Yes slam and the other perks of the big SK’s are very nice. Same goes with Iksars regen and ability to poop sock a Greenmist. The better your gear and levels the less racial perks matter. Your stats inevitably cap or get closer to capping. Npc hitpoints scale on an insane level. Bash and even spell stuns are a dice toss (aka team effort). Even an extra 20% dps from a 1.0 ratio 2h compared to a .8 ratio 1h won’t matter much when the charmed pet is going 5x your dps. I frequently switch between 1h and 2h depending mostly on how much my own dps matters. Casting between swings is easier with a 2h too.
In the low levels even starting strength can be super frustrating. Slam/bash does a noticeable amount of damage and almost always interrupts. That and quick 1h’s (jade/lam) use the same skill as the knight variant (ebon/noc). You could level to 60 without using a 2h but they do make jousting easier. Damage shields with a slow 2h will do half the damage as even a knight 1h. Also a Reaver from 30+ is easy-mode even without slam on a small race.
In the end it doesn’t really matter. Stats and race mean nothing compared to level and gear. I did solo up a 56 gnome warrior I found very easy. That was mostly due to the 40% spell haste clockwork arms, root nets, and fungi tho. That and not getting stuck on staircases in HK with a noble chasing me down. If a DE warrior was my favorite look I would have gone that path instead. It would have been harder without the extra haste but you can bum buffs easy enough in a high population zone.
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02-26-2020, 12:32 PM
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