Crystalforged War Axe... downgrade????Follow

nope, but crit isnt calculated in tooltip dps ;)
Its the dps you'd do with 0% crit, never missing and only autoshooting.

Its also why its not a very reliable measurement, 5% chance to miss and ~20% chance to crit already makes a big difference in dps, not to mention a shooting cycle.




Disclaimer: I'm not 100% sure i did this math correctly, so if someone can verify that would be nice =P

The easiest way to calculate your true autoshot dps is (<tooltipdps> x <critchance>) + (<tooltipdps> x <chance to hit>) = <true autoshotdps>

for example with 300 tooltip dps, 20% crit and no +hit (so 95% chance to hit or 91 on bosses):
(300 x 0.2) + (300 x 0.95) = 345, so a difference of 15%...

You only get points for one of your teams per week. The highest earning team will be the one that gives you your points for that week. A 5v5 with 1450 rating earns 25% (not sure on the math) more arena points then a 2v2 with 1450 rating.

Am fairly positive that the new arena axe is the best 2H you will see until t6. And boy are people ******** we get it for 1000 points when others have to drop 3250.

Edited, Dec 27th 2007 11:34am by ithikul

I did this once as well. I was looking at my melee dps for whatever reason, a few hours go by, I bought Valanos' Bow, and I equipped it, equiped my quiver with the same speed increase, and it took me about an hour to figure out why in the hell my attack speed was 3.50.

[wowitem=34014]Waraxe[/wowitem] [wowitem=28587]Legacy[/wowitem]

compare 28 AP(legacy) to 1.09% crit, .95% hit, 98 ignore armor (waraxe), not to mention some extra stamina. The 8 Mp5 on the legacy is nice but imo does not compare to the stats on the waraxe. Using some rough math I would say that the 28AP would be worse even if all the waraxe had extra was the crit. They are in no way equal.

Of course a SV hunter would go for Legacy, but for everyone else, get the Waraxe and put some mana oil on it.

Math: generally assume .2% crit is slightly better then 8 AP.

Edited, Dec 31st 2007 11:30am by Xsarus

Assuming you gemmed it with 8agi, 8 crit and 4 agi+4sta

twinblade:

130 AP
2.345 % crit

WarAxe

92 AP
2.09% crit
.95% hit
98 ignore armor

Comparison

(38 AP and .252% crit) vs. (.95% hit and 98 ignore armor.)

If you equalize (hit and crit and ap) you get

10 AP vs 98 ignore armor. Tough call, I don't understand ignore armor enough to make the call here, but it's not that definitive. If the gear you have pushes you to hit cap then the twinblade is better. If not I'd have to give the waraxe the edge.

I'm not in T5 content though, how is the hit rating on those items? pretty good? I know in T4 content, I don't have to worry about getting enough hit, although there are a lot of items I'm trying to juggle.

Calabar, find a friend in game and start a 2v2 team with them.

Heck, get another hunter and you can both work towards your waraxe at the same time.

There is literally no reason why a 70 hunter should not have the Vengeful Gladiator's Waraxe within 3-4 weeks of dinging 70.

thats what i did aswell, teamed up with another hunter friend(just turned 70) and meraid spec with very low hp. ofc the plan on my side was just doing 10games a week, win or lose, to my surprise 2 hunters acually worked better than expected, have about 50/50 wins. unfortunatly i dont have the axe yet since the first week acually was the only week we have made 10 games sofar since i find it so damn boring, but like others have said all you need is 10games/week for 4 weeks and its yours wether you win or lose.
and to be honest it looks better than the toy axe(legacy)

nope, in fact some people play 5 characters at once.

Edited, Jan 2nd 2008 2:13pm by Xsarus

Dualboxing? Heh, some fellow did a full 40 man MC run pre-tbc all by his lonesome. And that was with Blizzard's blessing. As long as he didn't use third party programs, and had an account for each player it was fine. He apparently controlled nine people with one "group leader". He controlled four groupleaders separately, and the rest worked mostly with macroes and so on.

Can you imagine the leveling though? He said he leveled one party at a time. Five people with the best possible group setup running through all quests and instances, all controlled by yourself and all loot/gear/objectives are for you. It must have been awesome.

I have two PCs and two accounts, so I’m not worried about breaking any rules as such. But as I’ve never even dueled another player before, I’d be entering the combat fully intending to throw myself upon my opponent’s sword. I’ll attempt to draw a bit of blood before I die, but my second character will be doing little more than auto following. So what I’m really worried about is ruining the experience for someone else because I won’t be putting up much of a fight.

But to be honest, the thought of getting that axe for my hunter and something else nice for whatever other character I take in, possibly my druid, is very tempting.

Well, what the heck? I’ll give it a shot. But… umm… that leads to a newbie question. How?

I know absolutely nothing about this side of the game. What zone do I need to go to? How do I actually enter… whatever this thing is called?

Edit:

Oh, and what is the level limit. Can I take a level 67 druid or a 63 priest or can only level 70s enter?

Edit 2:

Wowwiki is my friend. I found what I was looking for here http://www.wowwiki.com/Arena_PvP_System and here http://www.wowwiki.com/Arena_Rewards.



Edited, Jan 3rd 2008 10:23am by Calabar