Vindicator's BrandFollow

Depends on what your AP and +hit is now.

If your armor overall provides enough AP and +hit that you don't need it to be buffered by the VB I'd say go for the S1 Wep, but if you need that extra +hit and +AP on the VB to say competant stick with it.

Might help if you gave us your armory, or told us your importants stats and where you are raiding.

My armory is in my signature. 1373 AP 209 +hit 19.84% crit.

If thats the case I would say go S1. Especially with precision.

A few notes.

The stopwatch and neck were both drops that nobody else wanted. Our guild lacks a raiding shammy or DPS warr. I know they are not ideal, but they are purple and were better than what I had before. Saving my badges for the leggings with +haste. So I'll just have to wait for Worgen.

The cape is exclusively for +hit. I have the Veterans epic cloak as well and swap them out as needed.

I've already completed those two quests and vendored the rewards, I'm pretty sure. Vendored the trinket back when I still had bladefists and the cloak I passed on because I have the veterans cape.

I had bladefists breadth, but it looks an awful lot like the grey vendor junk that drops off of elementals....so yah, accidentally vendored it and didn't realize it until after it was already too late.

I appreciate the feedback on my gear and everything, I know it is lacking in spots and am slowly but surely working on that; but there is one thing I want to know for a fact.

Will the the added dps from gladiators slicer justify buying another set of mongoose mats, considering

a. Jaedenar's low-pop economy is jacked
b. saving for epic flying
c. trying to lvl BS for drakefist hammer (which will also cost a pretty penny)

If I was dealing with an unenchanted brand, it would be a no-brainer. But I wonder if its really worth the investment in mats to bring a mongoosed gladiator blade to a fresh kara guild when the brand is getting the job done sufficiently for now and I have other competing interests for my gold.

I don't anticipate using swords for BGs or arena (maces, drakefist), so the resilience on is more or less a wasted stat for me.

I guess I would just like to know how much glad slicer will increase my overall dps and then I can decide how important an upgrade it is.

Thanks for not flaming me yet.

points up*

thats good advice there, i second it.

For a trinket to replace blade fists you might want core of ark or the trinket from mech.

Its good to deal with someone who knows what their doing. Most of the time we poeple here have to assume complete ignorance.

The pvp stuff and raid drops will be what your aiming for anyway after you get the stuff in the link i gave.

If you have enough honor head for those.

which proffesions are you?

Before the stopwatch dropped, I had Bladefist's Breadth & Hourglass of the Unraveler. I used some of the quest reward trinkets here and there, but always preferred Bladefists and Hourglass. Thus I would wendor the quest reward trinkets since I had better at the time.

Ater I had completed all those quests, I accidentally vendored Bladefists, mistaking it for grey vendor trash that drops off of elementals. A dumb mistake, but one I could not reverse once I had realized what had happened.

Then, when the Stopwatch dropped (after I accidentally vendored Bladefists), the only trinkets I had aside from Hourglass were my PVP trinket and Riding Crop.

I just run with the stopwatch to avoid some damage on trash pulls. I already have a plan to get a better dps trinket (romulo's poison vial). May go for the Mech trinket if it takes too long for the vial to drop.

I am a miner/master hammersmith (only 341), so I have no plans to roll for fool's bane or save honor/AP for the MH glad mace (but will need the OH) as I will soon have my Drakefist Hammer. The upgrades to DF are expensive, but oh well.

So, since everyone is talking about something other than my swords, I'm guessing the consensus there is to buy the Gladiator's Slicer and grind gold/mats to mongoose it?

BTW tenjen, that link you posted is broken.