For PvP it’s not important at all.
It seems your goal it to PvP.
If you plan to raid you will be lower dps due to glancing blow penalties.
After the gnome is geared you could sell stocks for about 2k gold a week to fund edgies tho.
It’s a stinker that wars get 0 skill through spec. For PvP weapon skill doesn’t really matter. Lowers your hit requirement but not a big deal.
As for pve it does make a big difference in damage because of glancing blows.
At 300 wep skill your yellow hit cap is 9%, A glancing blow will reduce your damage By around 35%.
At a skill of 305 Your yellow hit is down to 6%, glancing blow reduction is now around 15%. Big jump from 35%.
At 308 skill your yellow hit is still 6% but glancing reduction goes down to 5%.
Wep skill beyond this point isn’t worth the trouble. Small gains after 308ish.
So that 8 wep skill does indeed make a big difference in pve. This is why people say edgies as a war are a must. Rogues have it easier for sure.
Let me know if my math is wrong, I still need Maladath so hope I’m on point here.
Edge masters are so broken for what they are the only thing close are the gauntlets of annialation from c’thun and still aren’t better but only like by 1 or 2‰* soo your pulling 1000 dps with gauntlets of annialation do you really want to fort out 6k soo you can pull 1020dps well yea if your that kind of guy deffinatly every single dps matters to you but in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t matter the difference is do miniscule and your already pulling a completely broken amount of dps for what classic was meant to be. as long as your haven fun and pressing your 2 buttons ( bloodthirst, whirlwind) and repeat oh and prolly a few heroic strikes you’ll be fine💪
Ahhhh, the good old days. Now they are listed as high as 25k on Whitemane.
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If you need to min/max as a guild requirement then you need edge masters no matter what if you play a non orc or non human. If you play causally then don’t even bother because 300 skill is enough to be competitive in dps. I would sometimes beat dual welding fury orcs with axes on my undead 2h fury build on some boss fights just by lucky wind fury procs. I’m the end everything is just RNG.
Crazy what rampant RMT will do to a server.
Don’t listen to these people, it’s not very important. Getting world buffs is 5x more important to your DPS than weapon skill.
If you are getting world buffs it’s literally irrelevant as long as your skill is maxed without any +skill items.
You will do slightly less DPS than if you had edgemasters.
Unless you are trying to parse it is not even relevant in Classic.
When world buffs and consumes LITERALLY double your DPS, small gains from things like edgemasters are almost pointless and are only a few % DPS at most.
You can SIM it here
https://guybrushgit.github.io/WarriorSim/
Default settings with gnome as race:
With edgemasters = 822 dps
Without edgemasters = 815 dps
As you can see, it’s not a massive difference. Now let’s see what world buffs do…
With world buffs = 1164 dps (this doesn’t even include all consumes)
Without any world buffs = 716 dps
As you can see, edgemasters is only for the sweaty parsers not for normal people. It almost makes no difference compared to world buffs.
World buffs and consumes almost make all gear irrelevant in classic. If you want proof, people LITERALLY killed KT with mostly pre-BIS gear and some MC and ZG loot because of world buffs and consumes. Oh and this was on hardcore mode.
This guy gets it.
This post… 3 YEARS later.
The necromongers around here these days…