no more combat swords?Follow

Have been away from my addiction for about 2 months but have kept up a little with all the changes that have taken place as well as with the new expansion. My question is even after looking briefly at the FAQ page, is combat swords dead?

As a rogue I leveled and loved combat swords, but from what I've seen in both the FAQ page here and briefly skimming through the various rewards on different sites that you can get from quests and drops I just don't see any decent 1h swords, but more daggers and fist weapons. So am I just out of luck and need to turn in my lovely merc swords that seemed to take forever to get and pick up a nice pair of fist weapons or daggers?

Combat Swords is still perfectly viable, you just need to find the swords to use it with which is a bit harder in LK.

blue daggers from AH with mute spec will outdps most pre-naxx weapons both mute and combat spec.

Maybe in the future they will add more items for us and fix our specs a little. We'll see what it is at that point, but until then that's pretty much how it is.

Right now in optimal simulations, Mutilate seems to be slightly better total DPS output in a raid environment than either Combat build. But it should be noted that Mutilate is harder to deal with and takes more attention. Also, the OP was talking about leveling builds which optimization of DPS isn't as much of a concern.

I posted my preferred leveling Mutilate build in another thread, may as well post it here too, just in case.

If you're going to stay combat, there are several good main hand fists from quests (you'll want to pair it with a fast, fast, fast off-hand dagger) and a couple of decent swords too. Off-hand swords might be the sticky bit, but I remember coming across at least one (in Grizzly iirc).

Good luck!