Filed under: Warrior, Items, Analysis / Opinion, Expansions, Talents, Wrath of the Lich King

I’m noticing a disturbing trend in perusing the Wrath blue posts. Well, disturbing for me, and possibly for any other warriors out there. All that awesome we seemed to be getting? It doesn’t seem that the warriors are finding it quite so awesome. A case in point is Titan’s Grip. The Wrath forums seem to indicate that’s it’s not all wine and roses. There is a lot of math going back and forth in that thread, so I’ll simplify it (probably too much, but that’s what comments are for): At present, the white damage of Titan’s Grip does not exceed that of dual wielding one hand or off hand weapons. This means that the damage increase of the talent must come from specials such as Bloodsurge hasted Slams, Whirlwinds and Bloodthirsts. However, since Titan’s Grip slows the weapons down considerably (fully talented, Titan’s Grip means you swing 20% slower, so a 3.5 speed weapon can be over four seconds between swings) any miss streak can be crippling for rage generation. No rage generation means no rage to use those specials, so that you’re dependent on white damage that’s actually inferior to what it would be without the talent. It seems a little counter-intuitive that so evocative and exciting (on paper, anyway) a talent would actually lead to a DPS decrease.

I find myself wondering if the issue is not with the talent itself, however, but with the itemization of all 2h weapons in the 60 – 70 game.

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