What should I wield??Follow

Hi there. I see no-one more in the know than me has answered, and I'd hate you not to get an answer, so here's my 2c worth:

I wouldn't worry too much about getting it wrong. The weapons are all equal(ish) and will be replaced fairly shortly anyway

I see you're an orc, so the axe racial is not to be sniffed at. As such I would keep the axe and since it is the slowest of your weapons I would wield it in the main hand. This leaves the off hand...

The mace is chance on hit, and as you miss more often with off-hand I would discount that. The proc rate would be too rare to be of use.

I would personally stick with the sword of omen in the off-hand (although I haven't done the maths - intuition tells me, and it's usually spot on), but aim to run BRD or similar as soon as possible as there are some more nice weapons to be found.

I'm sure others would disagree, but that's how I'd do it.

Cool.

Just keep going. As long as you can kill the monsters you're weapons will do. It's when you find battling a couple of monsters at your level is getting difficult that you need to think about upgrading. I know that when I hit 70 I was still wielding a lvl 60 sword and had a number of low level armour pieces. Even now I haven't yet replaced my Azeroth necklace and one ring, but I'm not too worried.

And finding groups for the 50+ dungeons is always hard. Everyone is questing quickly to hit Outlands. Just stay in LFG while you quest and see what comes up...

Edited, Sep 16th 2008 7:39am by KradortheDruid

Don't know where you got it, you don't miss more often with your off-hand, dual wielding gives a 19% miss penalty (on top of any other miss chance you have) to BOTH weapons, this only applies to auto-attack though.

This means that against a mob your level you miss 24% of the time with auto attacks (5% base+19% penalty of dual wielding), unless you have something to offset this, talents, buffs or hit rating on gear. Non auto-attack (IE Execute, Heroic Strike, Bloodthirst, whatever), in above example, will miss 5% of the time.

A disclaimer - This is not 100% accurate, main hand has a better hit chance due to the fact that "yellow" attacks mostly affect main hand, and are not penalized like auto-attacks, but I doubt that's what KradortheDruid meant.

If this wasn't clear, please read Wowwiki page on hit might be more clear.

About your question, as was stated above, as long as you kill mobs faster than they kill you, you are fine. I'd advice not to spend too much time on getting gear until Outlands, as you might be disappointed there by the short time it takes to replace it all.

Have fun,
Yuval.