Rage Changes and Weapon question

[mrcer 8]

After the changes to the Rage Mechanics, I've seen a lot of people saying that the 1.30 weapons are no longer BiS.

 

Is there an updated thread/list regarding the best weapons for tanking after the hotfix?

[Jeetee 2]

Try stuff. Think for yourself, the only way to truly learn. Or read the numerous threads already outlining this. There's not near as much depth to this game as most of you want to believe.

[SpottedCow 2]

Your rage generation from incoming damage has been greatly nerfed.  Rage generation from attacks is still the same.  Previously, the fastest daggers were best for tanking because you had nearly unlimited rage and could spam HS almost non-stop on any boss fight, which meant you didn't need to generate rage from your attacks.  Since rage from attacks is based on damage, the higher the damage of the weapon, the more rage it will generate per swing.  So you want a high DPS weapon.  Pre-raid, that means Timeworn Mace (2.2 AS with decent dps), same as tanks used in retail vanilla until they could get their hands on a Quel'Serrar.  Deathbringer, off of Onyxia, is pretty good too.  The 2.6 speed makes it a little miserable for 5 mans (because tab-attacking mobs to retain threat doesn't cut it when it takes you 10 seconds to hit 4 different mobs), but it's the highest damage 1h weapon you can get from early content.

Anyway, TL;DR version is run DM West until you get a Timeworn and that will take you through the beginning of your raiding career.  There are a ton of tank drops in West anyway.  When you have enough money to buy an epic mount, spend it on a Foror's instead and make yourself a QS.

[gotmilk0112 10]

The only reason 1.30 weapons were "BIS" is because tanks were rage capped in raids, so you wanted a fast weapon to spam as many heroic strikes as possible.

 

Now tanks aren't going to be rage capped (as often) so you don't need a super fast weapon anymore.

 

At least, that is my understanding of this whole fiasco.

[Undertanker 88]

Deathbringer is 2.9 speed, not 2.6' You are thinking Vis'Kag.

Reason tanks go for a really slow weapon is for increased uptime on Crusader which fuels harder white hits which means more rage per second.