desabul wrote:
As a follow up, I have a question about how to arrange the speed of your MH/OH weapons.
I know with rogue it is best to place slowest, highest dps weapon in MH, then place a fast weapon in OH for poisons. How do shamans typically arrange their weapons, based on what?
2.6 speed or slower mainhand, 2.6 speed or slower offhand, windfury on mainhand, either windfury or flametongue on offhand (based on AP and how geared the shaman is), and the basis for doing this is maximizing the number of windfury procs from the main hand. Weapons that are too fast don't make the best use of windfury, and having a fast offhand weapon will cause windfury to proc off the offhand (NOT ideal) and consume the hidden cooldown, preventing it from proccing off the main hand.
That's the Reader's Digest version, there's a lot of other stuff that goes into it but basically shamans want the slowest weapons possible, and they don't want their offhand to be faster than their main hand.