Which of these T7 2H is preferred?

[Tanker1]

Looking at these two 2H weapons, I am confused as to which is best. Also, which adorn to use? Will the 20% haste adorn stack with other haste items, such as Cloak of Flames? The damage range on this seems way spread out. Is the crit increase a major factor? Thank you for any advice!

[Etchii]

I use the bo of flowing blood with the adornment that procs a power tap. 

 Seems to work great for me.  If i get LoM during a long fight, i just let auto attack do the work and I will slowly gain power for taunts, or a few more CA's.

I love melee crit chance items, 1/4 of my attacks are crits =)

[Tanker1]

They finally changed the graphic on the Bo of Flowing Blood to actually be a lot of red blood flowing and dripping. Alas, it's only during combat. not while on your back. Still, it's a great change to the animation.

[Etchii]

I bitched up a storm on the forums here when I saw the particle effect on the bo vs the axe that drops called bloodbath (i think thats the name)... lol

[eyes007]

Depends on what you want to do really, I use the Hamer because of it's awesome tank stats. Whenever I'm tanking I switch to the hammer as I have a +10 defense adornment on it. That added with +5 parry and +5 defense is a good way to get some good avoidance. The added bonus is the hammer has only a slightly less attack rating than that of Marr's Fist and Wurmslayer so it does decent damage too.

The Bo is really good for long fights, high strength leads to decent auto attack. I wouldn't add another dmg proc to it but as Etchii says a power tap will be useful. I'm also starting to see now the + to crushing/piercing/slashing adornments that are fabled (on DW it's +5 to whatever skill for increased damage) are almost a waste of time The procs that give extra health or power, or have a status attack (slows mob attack speed etc.) are the real gold winners.

Also the haste adornment won't stack with Cloak of Flames. If anything with so many haste items out there, buying a haste adornment is also a waste.

[delbranson]

Personally, I would go with the hammer for a number of reasons.

For one, the wider spread of stats is going to provide a little more overall benefit when you're already holding very high stats from group buffs.  Two, the skill bonuses are great for a tanking bruiser.  And three, while the bo staff provides that 2% crit bonus, the hammer makes far better use of the crits you are getting already.

Automelee critical hits provide the max possible damage of the swing plus a small % bonus.  To maximize the benefit of melee criticals, you should focus on your weapon's damage range (to get the biggest possible hits) and delay (for the most opportunities to hit).  As you may notice, most weapons are a damage ratio of 1:3.  The Bo staff is an improvement above most weapons in that regard with a ratio of 1:5.6, and while I dual wield normally, I do switch to this bo staff when below 30% health to maximize my near 100% melee crits from the eagle expert AA line, it being the best damage range ratio weapon I have. The hammer is a bit slower and so will hit less often, and the hits have 2% less chance to crit than otherwise, but when it crits, the hammer hits for max damage with a 1:8.8 ratio.  1:8.8 damage ratio is what I would call durn good, and is to me the most appealing aspect of the hammer.  As well, the overall benefit to melee criticals over the bo staff is only going to be made more significant as you are hasted by equipment and spells (lessening the difference in delay) and as you improve your chance for critical hit opportunities by other means, eagle expert AA line, other equipment, group buffs.

I would say the damage ratio of the hammer is the superior factor here in improving damage output, rather than the additional 18 strength of the of the bo staff as previously suggested.

[Tanker1]

Yay! Thank you all for the replies. Good stuff brought to our attention. Thanks for your time.

[Raidi Sovin'faile]

And as for availability...

Fabled Raid drop vs Instance Drop

Blood Bo is selling for like 3pp on my server atm at the lowest. The Hammer is either non-existant.. or maybe the one time I saw it it was going for like 40pp or more.

That can affect your decision somewhat... unless it drops or is being sold within your price range, the Hammer might not even be an option to some folks.

[faxoff]

the hammer is like twice as good as the bo is. the delay is higher, which means more combat arts in between swings, and the damage range on it is excelent, which will make for a much higher hit with dps mod and crits than the bo. i have the maul of the wardens fist and the bo, and the principle is the same. i do 300dps more on average with the maul than the bo. + that proc is nice, and the hammer has awesome stats. i would really like too aquire it and test it against the maul too see which is better. wishing i had done that back when they were 5p, but i didnt know much about game physics then.

[Cocytus]

Hammer > Bo.