MentalFrog wrote:
Why do you want a slow sword?
All weapons of a certain level usually have a similar dps, depending on quality.
So, for instance, if you have a 30 dps sword with 2.2 speed, and a 30 dps sword with a 2.7 speed, the only difference is that each hit with the slow sword is for more but more time inbetween, right?
For white damage, these two will give same results. HOWEVER, rogues have special abilities that are entirely dependent upon your energy. Since energy regens at the same rate no matter what your sword speed, you'll do these special attacks at the same rate no matter your weapon speed.
So suddenly speed becomes irrelevant, dps becomes irrelevant, what is left? The per hit damage of the weapon.
So, a slower weapon, with equal dps as a faster weapon, for a rogue, will make stronger special attacks, leading to more overall damage. That is why.
So I guess to answer your question, its not that you want a slow sword, you want the weapon with the highest damage per hit. This USUALLY equates to slower weapons since weapons are balanced by dps, not by damage. IF you're looking at a given range of weapons, its nearly always the slowest that will have the highest per-hit damage.
Blizzard could very easily change this by making energy regen rate related to weapon speed. They'd have to make changes though, since suddenly daggers would be so much better than other weapons, since you can only ambush and mutilate with daggers.
Edited, Apr 28th 2008 11:25am by digitalcraft