So this is my main and I have a DK alt. I’ve specced my DK into using 2 1handed weapons just for something different than another character swinging a 2 handed weapon. I don’t usually raid with him since it’s hard to find time to even do LFR on 2 characters. I’m wondering do 1-handed weapons other than greens ever show up in ZM for DK or does the game just assume we only use 2 handed weapons? I’ve been stuck with the same 2 green weapons since my DK turned 60 . I’ve been checking the ZM quests constantly and I’ve never had a 1 handed weapon show up from one or drop from a treasure, cache or anything!
You have to get a quest item to drop in ZM that will unlock cypher weapons; otherwise, you’ll never see them. I think you need to have already upgraded cypher gear to 252 before the quest item will even drop. Otherwise, there’s a few rares that drop ilvl236 1 handers, and the dune rares can drop a 246 1h mace.
Tbh you’d probably be better off just running some m0’s for gear at this point; or wait to see if the prepatch has catchup gear.
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Thanks, that might explain things since I haven’t gone too far into the quest line on that character.
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This is just the nature of the personal loot system and frosts loot table having both 1h and 2h weapons.
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Imagine if frost loot spec dropped only 1H weapons and Unholy 2H.
That would be crazy.
It’s crazy that nobody has fixed this yet.
Seems so simple and easy to do.
So we will prolly get it 2 expansions from now.
2h frost does exist.
I would prefer 2 loot specs for frost:
Frost - 1h
Frost - 2h
That’s the only way that I would change my loot spec back to frost since I never want to see a 1h weapon drop ever again. It would also allow those that prefer 1h weapons to have only 1h weapons drop.
Unholy and Blood would have 1 loot spec each (unholy - 2h and blood - 2h).
I’d want something similar for any other spec that can use multiple weapon types.
A shadow priest, for example, would have a choice between shadow - 1h/oh and shadow - 2h loot specs.
For another example, ww monks would be set up like my frost DK example above: windwalker - 1h and windwalker - 2h loot specs.
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Yeah, I’ve lost count of how many mech workshops and taz street’s I’ve done on my DK trying to get DW going for this season… without ever seeing a 1H drop.
Kinda tilting ngl
100%.
But if you want a 2H weapon you can easily just always be in unholy loot spec which is what 2H frost players have done all expansion. It’s the exact same loot pool without 1H weapons.
There is no way for Frost players to target 1H only weapons.
I understand the problem you have trying to get 1h weapons to drop. That’s why I proposed 2 loot specs for frost - 1 for 1h weapons and 1 for 2h weapons.
Honestly, it bugs me that I have to set my loot spec to something other than frost to make sure that I never see a 1h weapon. I’m not an unholy DK and I never will be. I am 2h frost.
I want to set my loot spec to frost in a way that filters out all 1h weapons. You want to set your loot spec to filter out all 2h weapons. Multiple loot specs for frost would allow us to both filter the weapon drops down to the options we prefer while both of us set our loot specs to frost.
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Unholy is the 2h frost loot table.
We kind of ran into this issue before. Cata had such bad loot tables that 1h weapons was a huge talking point during firelands. People didnt want to nerf themselves because the loot table was garbage. 1… just 1, 1h str dps weapon in the entire raid that had like a 1.4% drop rate.
You are literally saying you just dont want to see unholy and would rather see frost on a loot spec. I dont care if my loot spec said cotton candy, if I was able to target the optimal weapon set I would set it to it.
Frost loot spec is literally DW only option to get the gear they want and they have to slog through weapons with better drop rates to hopefully get their 1h weapons. Exactly what happened in Firelands. Or better yet, make every single weapon drop into a token that you can turn in like they did with CN.
They should have taken this into account when doing this design change to frost. Put a modifier on Frost spec that increases the drop rate of 1h weapons… something. Going into ZM and having to spend anima on 11+ Weapon boxes just to get 2 1h weapons is bad design. All that 2h has to do is open 1. Just swap to any other loot spec and you have your weapon.
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