Event Weapon

[Ursu 0]

Hey guys,

does anyone know if the Event Sword from the Headless Horseman is better than the 463 dungeon loot weapons despite being Agi based?

Much apreciated if someone knows this.

The Horseman's Sinister Slicer

[Vlad 419]

I don't know honestly, but my instinct tells me that it's probably not a DPS gain to use the Agility weapon. Mr. Robot weighs MH Weapon DPS at 8, whereas Strength is only 3. I'll get back to you.

[Ursu 0]

Any News/Opinions on this? :D

[Beeba 4]

Opinion, foregoing that much strength for a minor amount of DPS from an agility weapon will likely end up in a big loss of DPS overall, since the weapons are so close in item level. Beeba being a warrior as well helps me understand the use of non-strength items. One problem is that other abilities that do not use a weapon will suffer such as Dragon Roar, for example. Perhaps if the comparison was with a 415 weapon it may be worth considering but I am not sure. If you dual wield these it would be a bigger difference than a flask versus no flask.

I was poking around and found http://www.maxdps.com/warrior/fury.php with a number of one-handed agility weapons on the list for fury warriors and the Horseman weapon does appear to have more dps than a 463 but not sure if it still includes the non-weapon strikes like mentioned above. I find it odd but it may be correct.

Edited October 25, 2012 by Beeba

[Scrounger 3]

I am pretty sure that there is no definite answer for that. Try importing your armory into simcraft or something similar and simulate your stat scaling factors. For me it looks like this:

edit: removed the broken table

So for me Str would be 2.79 and Wdps 5.78

Now simply calculate the relative value of the weapon compared to your current one or - if you already have 1 or 2 of the swords - simulate with and without the AGI weapon.

Of course the best way to see is just trying ;)

Hope that helps, even though its no definite answer.

Scrounger

Edited October 25, 2012 by Scrounger