So ive been playing Frost DK some lately and enjoying it. I use a single 2H weapon now. But when it comes to weapons I get a bit mixed up. Do we have certain situations where a dual wield is better than a 2H weapon? Or is one option vastly better than the other?
I’m mostly PvPing.
Thanks
youre gonna get a lot of different opinions on that one especially talking PvP
They do different things so yes you could then argue one might be mathmatically superior on paper but gameplay is a lot different than just what you see on paper
Duel wield is where the devs mostly designed the spec around because it has main hand and off hand hits, and faster auto attacks which is how you proc killing machine your main damage proc
2h although slightly more clunky, comes with just an insane 30% buff to obliterate, when stacked with other modifiers that also increase obliterates damage you can begin to see insanely hard hitting oblits, much harder than what duel wield is capable of
2h is much better at bursting, but outside its cooldowns it falls off much harder than duel wield does, where as duel wield cant expect to reach the same peak as 2h, its damage falloff is less miserable
I personally play 2h myself, out of principle and also big oblits are nice
Tbh, 2H is generally the overall better option because bigger obliterates = more value during Pillar, which is realistically Frost’s only kill window.
Issue is DW supposedly has higher sustain, supposedly through more killing machines outside of Pillar, but I haven’t actually seen a noticeable increase in km procs, while also hitting softer compared to 2H.
Like Chillpills said, Frost was designed around DW, but 2H feels superior in almost every single way, which isn’t exactly a good thing considering Frost has massive design problems to begin with.
Rough numbers, what have you been seeing for oblit crits with dw compared to 2h? Im highly considering going dw for frost pvp since i’d like the higher sustain and x2 runeforge (more consistently, the rime proc for razorice is slow), and the bigger frost strike hits.
Disarms really ruin my day as 2h so i’m hoping it’s less of an impact as dw, since ideally there’s some procs in there to reduce icecap under 45 secs to lessen that.
Try using Abomination Limb to bait the disarm. Start on them and just pop Limb. I feel like 90% of the time if they are looking to disarm me they will do it off just seeing Limb. Once that disarm falls off try to keep your pillars off sync with their disarms.
Also, 2 Obl crits with each KM proc, doubling icecap usefulness.
Thats not an interaction that happens, it only procs once per press of a spell
That’s totally my bad. I don’t know why I thought it was a 1 second thing.
Just play the way you have more fun. I like dw obliteration, but I’ve been hating pvp in wow for years, specialy as a dk, and I just couldn’t care less for meta builds in pve
I think all higher rated Frost DK’s are using 2h now. Flarkness was using dw for a while but even he eventually went 2h last I saw. Nobody is really dying to frost dk consistent damage so anything you can do to increase burst during pillar is going to be the most helpful imo and essentially that comes down to increasing oblit damage i.e. 2hand.