I’m asking because my subtlety rogue needs more speed for the shadow techniques passive. My dagger has a speed of 1.80, my mace, axe, and fist weapon all have a speed of 2.60. Does that mean that a lower speed is actually faster, or that my dagger is abnormally slow?
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Lower the speed the faster it attacks
Think of weapon speed as the delay between attacks.
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Thank you for the clarification. Do you know if it makes a really big difference? I really prefer subtlety, but I love my fist weapon transmog and can’t use that with daggers. So right now my main is dagger so that I can use doomblade but offhand is a fist weapon.
Weapon speed doesn’t make any difference any more. It was “normalized” a long time ago.
This means that a slow but hard hitting weapon will now do the same damage as a faster but lighter hitting weapon (provided that the weapon DPS is the same).
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Even with the passive that procs just based on how many times you hit them? The shadow techniques passive as subtlety rogue
Shadow Techniques has this mechanic (detailed on wowhead):
For your first two auto attacks (counting both, main hand and off hand) there is no chance for it to proc. The third hit, however, has a 50% chance. If you don’t get the proc on the third, your fourth auto attack will have a guaranteed proc.
So even if you have a faster hitting weapon, you will get the same number of procs with a slower weapon. this might not be accurate, but the difference is in fractions of a second and likely not worth worrying about.
They normalized weapons way back in the day so that players didn’t have to worry about weapon speed anymore.
The best way to gear for like 80% of WoW players is to put on your highest ilvl pieces and gem/enchant for your lowest stat. Not considering tier pieces of course.
You want 2 daggers as sub.
Outlaw gets away with a dagger in the offhand for more energy from auto procs (it’s that or cp)