Maybe i missed something, but ive been getting 2h Mace and 2h Sword drops with intellect on it? My question is why? TIA
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Because shaman, paladin, druid, evoker use those I think.
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Cause Holy Paladin.
On a rogue? Seems sus/wrong/weird
Fine for a pally or evoker if sword and fine for shaman, druid, paladin, and evoker if mace since all of those use those respective weapons even if spreadsheet dorks say it is unoptimized.
Ive been getting them as random drops. I dont do healers so thats why i was asking. I always thought HPally was shield/offhand. Only used staff/polearm for my druids, and staves for my evokers. I wasnt aware they could use 2h sword/mace.
I dont believe Shaman can use 2h. Paladins are strength for 2h or use a 1h/shield for holy. Not sure on druids or preservation/aug evokers.
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Holy Paladins can choose either 2H or sword and board. Their Legion artifact weapon was a 2H mace, actually.
Shaman uses two hand mace, and maybe axe, I know for sure mace. It’s part of the complaint they removed two hand from enhance.
Gotcha. I thought they were main hand/off hand only
just confirmed my evoker can equip the 2h int mace and 2h sword. Learn something new every day lol
Most prefer to have the board cause of defense and because one of the spell requires a shield, so I’m not surprised people forget that they can use 2H int weaps too.
I think you figured it out, but yes holy paladins can use 2H weapons even as holy and arguably should since it would benefit their DPS capabilities more than a 1H would but I don’t know how significant the DPS difference would be…it isn’t like the armor from the shield is going to let them “tank” anything that melee’s hard anyway.
Depending on what content you are doing, some drops respect your set loot spec while others can drop anything your class can use/equip or just random gear entirely. For example, I almost always have my loot spec set to unholy to guarantee I get 2H weapons and DPS trinkets. If I have it as frost, I could get 1H weapons and if I have it as blood I would be ineligible for DPS only trinkets and eligible for tank only trinkets of which nearly all tank trinkets are somewhere between hot garbage and all but useless.