weapons or barehanded?

[yoohoojim]

<p>hi all ive been looking all over the forums and i cant seem to find a definitive answer</p><p> ok first off my bruiser is lvl 15 and will be prolly completely solo  </p><p>now i know that barehanded with str line is supposed to give me weapons that are equal to fabeled   </p><p>but how would that compare if i had my bruiser equiped with updated mastercrafted weapons at all times?  </p><p>which would out dps the other? </p>

[Kram337]

Well firstly you need 17 aa to make the unarmed thing even work well. When i started my newb bruiser on the pvp server, I had 17 aa by level 22. I tried going unarmed until around level 24 then I swapped in some MC weapons and put my aa towards crits. I was MUCH happier with the MC weapons and crits. The procs and stats I got from the weapons made a nice difference and the crit rate more than made up for the dps loss from auto attacking for less.My 2 cents.A lot of others disagree. I'd only agree on going unarmed if you had enough aa to do 448 str and 448 int.

[yoohoojim]

<p>so after 36 AA's going unarmed is better??   see cuz what im asking is if money wasnt a problem and i could keep myself up to date with mastercrafted weapons and addons   would the str line really be that much better?   and im in a pve server so this is strictly PvE speaking</p>

[ganjookie]

i would use a wizard staff!  that INT REALLY helps with procs and my posions.

[Kram337]

<cite>yoohoojim wrote:</cite><blockquote><p>so after 36 AA's going unarmed is better??   see cuz what im asking is if money wasnt a problem and i could keep myself up to date with mastercrafted weapons and addons   would the str line really be that much better?   and im in a pve server so this is strictly PvE speaking</p></blockquote>After 36 aa' then yes it would be better. Of course to know if it'd be better than say 448 int and 448 wis or sta  you'd have to parse yourself for an hour or two. Worth parsing I'd say.