Best weapon style (duel wield,2hnd,1hnd,) Lets put some Demons to rest...

[Seraph20]

<DIV>I have wonderd for along time which weapon style is the best for my bezerker.  I read through these boards and found all types of different comments but no diffinative proof as to which was better.  Finnally I stumbled on to a dps calculator and now i know for sure.  Basically, if you care, what I did was test all 3 of my weapn styles out on the same mob 3 times and took the average.  I realize the weapons i used are not the of equal value but i assumed they were close.  Here were my results.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><U>2 handed Sword</U></STRONG></DIV> <DIV>Summary:<BR>Total Time Spent Fighting:  63 Seconds<BR>Total Melee Damage Inflicted:  993<BR><STRONG>Overal Melee Damage Per Second:</STRONG>  <STRONG>15.7<BR></STRONG>Total Weapon Swing Count:  24<BR>Avr Weapon Delay:  2.625<BR>Total Melee Hits (inc arts):  19<BR>Ripostes Count:  0<BR>Parry Count:  4</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV><STRONG><U>Duel Wield Spears</U></STRONG></DIV> <DIV>Summary:<BR>Total Time Spent Fighting:  57 Seconds<BR>Total Melee Damage Inflicted:  1163<BR><STRONG>Overal Melee Damage Per Second:</STRONG>  <STRONG>20.4<BR></STRONG>Total Weapon Swing Count:  69<BR>Avr Weapon Delay:  .8260<BR>Total Melee Hits (inc arts):  66<BR>Ripostes Count:  2<BR>Parry Count:  5<BR></DIV> <DIV><STRONG><U>1 handed Sword (Beriks Sword of Thunder)</U></STRONG></DIV> <DIV>Summary:<BR>Total Time Spent Fighting:  62 Seconds<BR>Total Melee Damage Inflicted:  989<BR><STRONG>Overal Melee Damage Per Second:</STRONG>  <STRONG>15.9<BR></STRONG>Total Weapon Swing Count:  39<BR>Avr Weapon Delay:  1.589<BR>Total Melee Hits (inc arts):  30<BR>Ripostes Count:  0<BR>Parry Count:  2</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>These 3 summarys are representatives of the other 2 for each weapon and were pretty close stat wise.  Any way I was surprised that my duel wield spears had the highest DPS.  Im interested to see your findings if any one wants to do a similar test.  To find the log parser program just search for it on these forums.  Ill add a link to the post with the program tommarow and if any of you care to know which weapons I used for the test let me know and ill post those too. Thanks  (BTW i do realize im a giant nerd for posting this, but at least im commited.  ; )  )</DIV>

[Styk]

Ok now with these same weapons , buff tides of war + screaming fury, have Ancient ring and FBSS and lets see some parsings.... i want to know if the same dps holds up..... been very curious about the results for awhile now....

[Kitsyne_Darkmo]

<DIV>Still a thought on this ... granted i am only a 23 zerker, but i have found that dual weapons are best in groups, while 2hs are best solo, especially with fury and a few of the other self buffs on to speed up the attacks, i havent honestly found much uyse in 1hs weapons. </DIV>

[Svan]

<DIV>a parse on 1 or 2 mobs for each weapon type is hardly enough data to make any sort of conclusions.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>try it with all weapons of the same quality, like all pristine forged whatevers, or just all regular no stat vendor bought ones. otherwise, you're only comparing the different weapons, not the different weapon types. dw should do about equal to 2h, and 1h should do about 1/2 to 3/4ths of the other two types.</DIV>

[Davish_Darkwolf]

<DIV>Nice parsing, but just one question, what kind of  2h   1h   and  dual wield weapons were you using?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>You can obtain different results depending on the quality, level and delay of the weapons.</DIV>

[VonStein]

<DIV>It also looks like your second encounter had way more hitpoints than the others.... higher level critter???</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Where you using HO's?  Combat Arts?</DIV>

[Seraph20]

<DIV>I didnt use any HOs or skillz, basilcaly i jsut hit attack and stood back.  I realize this wasnt a fair test because i was using weapons that were not similar grades.  My duel wields were forged carbonite short spears 9-28 dmg @1.7 second delay.  My 2hnder is Nerius Pirate Great sword 29-86 dmg @ 2.5 dps.  For the one hander i used beriks sword of thunder.  It would be nice to try the test again with all the same grade weapons.  Maybe ill try that out.  It would be nice to have some diffinative info.  </DIV>