Tunnel Gear - Warrior Weapons

[zelld52]

First time being serious about a warrior means I'm thinking about aggro weapons; should I be lucky enough to find groups while levelling. I currently have Swiftblade of Zek, Frostbringer and Wrapped Entropy Serpent Spine.

My intuition tells me that the Swiftblade + Frostbringer will be my best bet while levelling 30-50s. The 11 damage and fast delay of Swiftblade will generate me white damage threat, and the Frostbringer proc is nice bonus for offhand threat. (Once level 40, that is)

When I start to approach 50s, will it be better to switch Swiftblade out for WESS for that mega-threat from the long-duration blind? I imagine I'll need more than Swiftblade white damage threat when there's epic rogues backstabbing.

Or, should I just stick with the Swiftblade through until I get a leet DKP weapon like Trident or something, once the warrior is in its 50s+?

[Naethyn]

Get the best haste item you can afford and then you can use whatever weapon you want.

[Keebz]

Did they unnerf WESS? Last I checked it was terrible. Swiftblade x frosty is fine. Personally I'd just use the root shovel and reaver. If you raid on another char, get dain axe.

[Solist]

Buy dps.

Dps holds aggro.

Reaver, exquisite, rotting frostreaver or KT axe.

Get proc weapons at 60, in a raid. No one cares if you can hold aggro off a twink monk with a tstaff who tanks better than you anyway.

[Jimjam]

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

Buy dps.

Dps holds aggro.

Reaver, exquisite, rotting frostreaver or KT axe.

Get proc weapons at 60, in a raid. No one cares if you can hold aggro off a twink monk with a tstaff who tanks better than you anyway.

Also the more dps you have the less time spent not tanking the mob cos mob is dead earlier [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[zelld52]

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

Did they unnerf WESS? Last I checked it was terrible. Swiftblade x frosty is fine. Personally I'd just use the root shovel and reaver. If you raid on another char, get dain axe.

hmm i woulda thought the threat would be great because its a 1.7 minute duration blind - so even if it gets resisted thats alot of threat. havent field tested it yet

[Crede]

Originally Posted by zelld52 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

hmm i woulda thought the threat would be great because its a 1.7 minute duration blind - so even if it gets resisted thats alot of threat. havent field tested it yet

Infestation/wess aggro was nerfed a few years ago. Nobody uses these weapons anymore.

2h is king. Just grab a reaver or try to get kt axe / frost reaver for minimal dkp if you have access to it as others have mentioned. 2h is also a nice easy swap with truncheon once you start using that.

[kjs86z2]

thread title is "tunnel gear" not raid gear

but yeah...frostreaver and you're good to go til you start dropping DKP bombs on BiS shit

nobody cares about aggro if you're in a standard pug leveling group...and duo/trio non issue w/ er'body on the same page...DPS is king

[PatChapp]

Just use the biggest/best 2h you can afford. Reaver is great as is herby Spade.
Grats now your 50+
If your an ogre,keep the swiftblade. Works fine as an offhand for raid tanking,with a willsapper/trident/red blade main hand
If superior non ogre,it's still worth holding onto for ramping

[zelld52]

thanks for the tips, i thought WESS was still good aggro - the DPS sucks but i remember warriors using it after the DoT aggro nerf.

and no Frostreaver for me because im an elf. i weighed the decision of fashion vs. easy to acquire 2hs and went with fashion.