Ok need to ressurect this post as ive been getting alot of strange readings when parsing as of late, first of all 2h vs dw before revamp was pretty much tied, but as finding 2 good dw's was a hassle and rgf was pretty easy to get if youre in a decent raiding guild, most people went the way of the 2h'er.
That beeing said ive parsed 100+ hours from 51>56 and the results are abit..unsettling, to start with my weapon combos are 2 t6 imbued cestii's, t6 imbued cobalt great mace , 2 t6 ironwood imbued batons. Switching back and forth with these while fighting armored scorps (+/- 1 level range) for about 6 hours killing 10 at a time then switching to next setup the weapon that by far did the most damage was...unarmed..
Ok before you start calling me a crazy liar here , i must stress the fact that i was in a static group setup which consisted of paladin (tanking) trouby , warden and myself. Str is capped out and then some and only using fbss for haste + trouby haste.
WIth weapons i got the highest dps rating with my cestii's, now that would imply that great mace would do even better cause its slower, but alas it did not, falling 20>45 dps below my 2X cestii combo on average. Now 2h has lower stats then dw but as im capped out on strength anyhow those points dont shift dps and even if they did not by 20+ dps.
What i noticed off the bat is that if unarmed proc goes off more then 3 times in a normal fast exp group it actually do more extra damage then you loose by not having weapons equipped. At adept 3 the procc is like 1100 at the highest and it proccs quite alot when fighting unarmed, also unarmed damage goes up quite abit by raising strength and the average hit is well over 250 damage.
So what does this mean? Not a helluva lot until we have some serious testing and multiple feedback to back it up.
What i truly wished is that they implemented some form of unarmed gloves or made unarmed flagged as "magic" .
Also i would not recommend using unarmed if you are low on strength and without haste backup as that truly makes a differance, in solo mode its not a contest , weapons>unarmed , but with good buffs backing up unarmed>weapons (at least t6 legendary and on non magic required to hit mobs).
I would truly appreciate some feedback on this by as many 50 bruisers as possible as this is to interesting to let go =)
Skull 56 Bruiser
Edit , I continued testing with same group setup killing giants in PoF (Kromtorr camp) for 10+ hours and the fact remains im doing more damage with unarmed then any other weapon in my arsenal
Message Edited by furok on 10-24-2005 05:02 PM