Monk 1hb vs 2hb

[Ruhtar]

Autistic weapon swapping is essential for 2h use on a monk. If you're not willing to do that, use 1h.

[Rokzor]

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

Autistic weapon swapping is essential for 2h use on a monk. If you're not willing to do that, use 1h.

[Pint]

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

Autism is essential for a monk

[Bardp1999]

Everything I have heard is the "2h bonus" is lack luster at best but I suppose time will tell (if anyone is actually left on Blue in 2 months)

[Troxx]

Originally Posted by Bardp1999 [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Everything I have heard is the "2h bonus" is lack luster at best but I suppose time will tell (if anyone is actually left on Blue in 2 months)

Everything I’ve experienced and parsed on my 60 warrior, paladin, and monk since the patch is the opposite of what you’ve heard.

The paladin in particular with his shitty knight attack values and tendency to hit lower rather than higher saw a massive increase (percentage wise at least) in his damage with the damage bonus going from 11-12 per hit to 40 per hit with a 46 delay weapon.

[skorge]

Why not find a mob that spawns at the same level and does not buff and run the numbers? Kill said mob 100 x. Look at the numbers.

All these parses don't matter if the mobs aren't exactly the same.

Someone has to take one for the team to really do this right.

[monkeydoc]

I'm grinding out levels 57 and 58 on two mobs that are always the same level. Using epic/SoS because I'm a scrub. I probably contribute a parse several hundred fights after a while. What would a comparable 2H be? Don't say TStaff due to aforementioned scrub status.

[HedleyKow]

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

I'm grinding out levels 57 and 58 on two mobs that are always the same level. Using epic/SoS because I'm a scrub. I probably contribute a parse several hundred fights after a while. What would a comparable 2H be? Don't say TStaff due to aforementioned scrub status.

Imbued Fighter's Staff

[Jayzeus]

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

I'm grinding out levels 57 and 58 on two mobs that are always the same level. Using epic/SoS because I'm a scrub. I probably contribute a parse several hundred fights after a while. What would a comparable 2H be? Don't say TStaff due to aforementioned scrub status.

Peacebringer 28/30 no proc

[Raev]

I had fun hanging out with Chillwin! However I kind of sucked that fight as I a) died b) used primal fists for 10% of it. It's also worth noting that I don't have any AoB items and our bard failed to proc his epic for us. Which is why from a scientific standpoint there is really no need to be empirical when the answer is so easy to calculate:

• Abashi's: (40*2 + 29) / 30 = 3.63
• Fist of Nature + Fist of Lightning: (15*2 + 11 + 15*2*0.78) / 18 = 3.57

So Abashi's should do a bit more melee damage on average, especially against high AC targets as it now has a higher damage bonus than 1H, while the Fist of Nature will compensate with the procs. My sperglord calculator suggests:

DI = 2.5 average (spore king area w/avatar):
FoN/FoL: 103
Gharn's/FoL: 100
Abashi's: 98

DI=1.8 (KT w/avatar, 100% MR)
Abashi's: 76
Gharn's/FoL: 76
FoN/FoL: 74