Weapon advice for a Rogue nub ;->Follow

Hi all,

This may sound ridiculously, ludicrously, stupid ...or it may sound perfectly feasible .. I don't know, which is why I thought I'd ask for you guy's input.

My rogue just hit 30, and he's cruising (took a long time off playing him due to other necessary side-tracks ... Like SSO ;->). I have the Outlaw Sabre in my Main Hand and the Tail Spike in my off hand.

I'm fully combat spec'd atm, and intend staying that way all the way to level 50 (after which I'll start delving into Assas.

The thing is that now I"m 30, I can go and get the Sword of Omen from the SM quest. This is (I believe) an excellent Off hand sword for this level, and it is my intention to replace the tail spike to use it as such ...BUT ... I had a look at the damage range of the Sword of Omen, and it's slightly higher that the Outlaw Sabre, which suggests to me in would be a better MH sword that the Sabre.

The problem I have (it may not be a problem at all at this level) is that if I put SoO in my Main Hand, OS would have to go in my OH (Tailspike goes to the nearest vendor) .. but the OS is a very slow sword. Is a 2.7 speed sword off Hand an issue, or does the speed not matter, as long as DPS is decent.

Bear in mind that this is a short term issue, as I will be getting the Vanquisher's Sword from RFD for my Main Hand soon ... Sword of Omen will then find pride of place in my off hand.

The way I've always seen it (and bear in mind, I've only got 30 levels of being a rogue to check all of this stuff out), is that a faster weapon adds poisons quicker (my main hand will be fast), and Combat Potency requires a faster weapon (although this doesn't mean too much for a level 30). Slow main hand is desired simply because of the fact that the damage range for an equal DPS weapon will be higher for a slower weapon ... hence dealing more SS damage.

So, in Summary, my question is ... Is it really a problem having a slow off hand weapon, provided my main hand weapon has a higher damage range.

Thanks in advance .. .much appreciated.

Edited, Jun 2nd 2008 7:15am by robertlofthouse

At any given level, you should be able to find some sort of slow sword (around 2.6) for your MH and fast sword (around 1.6) for your OH. That's a fairly important rule, so stick to that. If you don't, your damage is going to drop dramatically.

But don't worry too much about that. Questing should give you reasonable weapons and, if not, you can get one from the AH for a few GP.

nostra

Seriously, this only becomes and issue at lvl 70 when you're working on optimizing your dps for pve/pvp.

Before that, anything you drop/buy from the AH will do. Sure it'd be better to have a slow and a fast sword if you're combat specced, but a slow sword and a dagger will do just fine while leveling. Leveling with a rogue is easy anyway.

nostra

Yeah you should always have a faster sword on your offhand, and a strong sword in your mainhand
having two strong and slow swords would be inneffective, so check the dps in mainhand for each and decide what you want, then find a good offhand to use

For combat levelling, you should normally be using Instant Poison on both weapons. A faster OH means more hits, which means more IP damage. For two weapons with equal DPS, you'll get significantly more damage from a fast OH than a slow one.

There's not much of a difference pre-Combat Potency.

I used Maladath at 60, and it wasn't as fast as other swords.

Combat Potency is really where it matters. Poisons are a very small percentage of your damage.

Sup isn't a raider, and Mak is an alt; we needed DPS and normally he'd come as ret, but he was specced holy and didn't want to respec.

Nethieus is a teribad from another guild. Like I said, we needed DPS badly.