I respecced Fury recently, and went dual wield.
From what I read here on the forums, I came to the conclusion that it's considered best for a Warrior to go with a slow main hand, and a fast off hand. That is for the same weapon DPS I'd rather have a 2.7 weapon on my main hand rather than a 1.3 and vice versa for off hand.
I wanted to know why is that? What is the advantage in that?
The 2 attacks that are instant that Fury can use and care about your weapon base damage (unlike Bloodthrist for example) are Whirlwind and Overpower, now at level 65 I don't have Tactical Mastery yet (going for Impale first), so I can't shift to Battle Stance every time my attack is dodged because I'll lose about 10 rage per shift (and maybe more on the other shift back to Berserker Stance) which make Overpower not useful yet. Whirlwind, while nice, is more of a "rage dump" for me, when I have that little extra I will use it, but not every cooldown, unless I'm lucky with the crits. Is that changed heavily in 70? I guess Overpower will be used alot more often with Tactical Mastery, but what about Whirlwind?
From the other attacks, I figured the 2 that change with weapon speed are Cleave and Heroic Strike. Cleave will duplicate your main hand next attack to another target at the cost of 20 rage plus the rage from your next attack (as it is yellow instead of white), so it rage cose scales slightly with weapon speed, but it's damage considerably so, thus I come to the conclusion that Cleave prefers slow weapon, though I rarely use it as Whirlwind is better. Heroic Strike is a bit harder, it adds +constant to your damage no matter what speed it is, and rage cost scales exactly like Cleave(starts with 15 though) therefore having a fast main hand is prefered here, you'll "lose" less rage because of the upgraded attack and you'll get it in that much faster(Impale might change it though, it's a bit harder to calculate I think).
That's for main hand.
For off hand, I figured 2 reasons to go with fast.
In PvP a fast attack will interupt casting alot more often, but dual wield Fury ain't the "cookie cutter" spec for PvP, so that's only a minor point, the other one is Unbridled Wrath, that talent gives a chance to gain rage per attack, so more attack equals more rage.
Although I do have the feeling that a fast off hand "eats" alot of my main hand flurry procs, it also generates more, does that equalize(or gives a favour to fast off hand) if we consider that my instant attacks couldn't care less about my off hand weapon speed(and a crit instant attack will proc Flurry for me)?
If you have anything to say, answer, flame, comment, add a question, whatever, please explain your reasoning, the answer: "Go with a slow main hand and a fast one!" has been recited to me a thousand times, the reasoning was always: "Because everyone does that!" which is just not enough for me.
As you can see, I reasoned (hopefully) everything I wrote, it may sound like I'm not giving the readers of this post enough credit for being inteligent, this is NOT the case, if it was true, I wouldn't care for your opinions and therefore wouldn't write here in the first place. The reason is, I often have hard time to make myself clear enough, and maybe adding some words helps this. Also I asked for explained answers, so the least I can do is post explained questions.
I read both the stickies("Warrior FAQ" By RPZip and "Warrior PvE DPS F.A.Q" by Devioususer) neither open posts didn't refer to these questions, I didn't bother reading further through as most posts weren't very informative so I stopped at half the first page or so, if I missed something relevant later on, please excuse me and direct me there. One last request, please in your answer, try to give advice for both my current level, 65 without Tactical Mastery, and to 70 with 3/3 Tactical Mastery, keep in mind that I don't PvP, not with this build anyway, so PvP advice, while welcome, is not really needed.
Have a nice day, and thank you for reading this,
Yuval R.