Why Maces for PvP?Follow

Just as the topic title says, why maces for PvP? (im a lvl 70 combat swords rogue)

well you would answer: dude... read the f*cking manual, maces stun swords don't
stun---> = win

Ok alright, stun is win... but hey i have crippling poison on my weapon when PvPing doesnt that already stun my opponent enough?
Or am i getting a wrong picture here?


Yeah i know im a friggin nub and i need to f*ck off and get me some uberzskill maces and respec hemo bla bla bla.

Offtopic:

The problem is that ive been lvling with daggers >.< as a sub rogue, and switched to combat swords since lvl 54 and it was the hugest DPS upgrade in history so far, and im as cocky as hell, mostly because i had bad memories of the sub tree and seeing all these buffs and nerfs all over the place im completely lost.

Look its like this :

Combat swords = cooking pan
Me = burned sh*t in the pan
Result = Stuck into combat tree

On Topic:

To get back to maces again, can someone explain me why maces are that good in PvP?


EDIT: Changed link, didn't work properly

Edited, Dec 11th 2007 1:56pm by Maverickzzz

It's also nice that mace stuns are on different DR than CS and KS.

You need to learn your mechanics.

Slightly offtopic here.

1. How do maces stand in the world of Raiding?
2. When is a good time to switch to maces (@70 for instance)?

woops stupid me. im confusing "dazed" with "stun", as i said before this isnt my mothers language :) so i make some stupid mistakes here and there...

being dazed is when you see those 3 stars twisting around your head(slowing you down just as crippling poison but that isnt dispellable), being stunned is that spiral thing above your head, right?(same as KS and CS)

yep, and as someone else mentioned above, (i am a "casual" raider weve downed everything up to Curator), am i losing alot of damage switching to combat maces? But on the other hand, i really really like to pvp too.... but what really frustrates me most is that when im getting 2 shotted by MS warriors and really cant do anything about it, i must admit i dont have THAT great gear.

So now is my question : is combat maces raid viable?

Ok thanks for comments,

too bad ive already bought my s1 OH sword :( and 3 weeks back i bought blinkstrike for 1000 g, ill think about it if im switching or not.

blizzard should allow to trade your BG weapons back for honor , even if i only get 1/4 of it back it would be nice.

In pve, all things being equal, sword spec will do 5% more dps then mace spec.

So while a Mace spec rogue might put out 400,000 on a given boss, the Sword spec one will put out 420,000.

It's not that much of a difference, but it does make it that much harder to be #1 if there's a sword rogue in the raid.

On the topic of maces, I've been using fist weapons a while now, and finally decided to go full time pvp. I am going to use the 0/31/30 build with Maces and I am farming the honor now.

My question is, the chance to stun does it have its own diminishing returns? I know that in a rotation you'd throw a kidneyS in there, but I am not quite sure how the mace stun works. Is it likely to proc twice before a KS is thrown in? and if so will it limit it's duration? (and yes i understand that CS, KS, and mace stuns are on separate DR)



Edited, Dec 12th 2007 5:25pm by Tallysien

is there a reason why a rogue cant use main hand dagger and off hand sword
so ucan stll do bs and ambush but u have a sword for bit more dps

though it would be nice of blizz to promote multi weapon handling for rogues in the specs

but i dont see that happening. How would they implement [for now anyway] without messing up the skill trees and their structure?

With a high enough crit % on your gear I think %5 crit damage might outweight 5% extra crit.

I could be wrong though, it'd be up to someone like RPzip to math that out for me.

Offhand weapons have the same accuracy as mainhand weapons, so what?

Uh, neither are right. OH weapons have the same hit as MH.