Dal'rend set vs Axe of deep woods + flurry axe with edgemasters

[Ichinoez 0]

So i'm playing Elysium and there really aren't many weapons choices for a fury warrior. I'm wondering which is best

I'm an orc and I use edgemaster's with dal'rend set at the moment. I'm considering Axe of the deep woods + flurry axe might be better since I get the 5 skill in axe racial combined with deathbringers +7 axe skill

Guild is having real bad luck with Deathbringers so i'm ignoring that for now

 

Has anyone compared these and seen any difference?

[Lollies 0]

Not a whole not of difference imo.

I run Dal's the 50 AP pretty good to make up for the damage on flurry axe. etc. I'd say the increase would be minimal

Once you get DB, Id say swap to the flurry axe or farm a felstriker.

not much difference in 307-312 skill.

Yea i think we've had like 10 books from 10 kills on ony. DB doesn't exist ;)

[Storfan 24]

Contrary to what Lollies say, 307-312 weapon skill is actually quite a big leap. As an orc I would definitely go with Deep woods+Flurry axe.

[Lollies 0]

Its around .16% hit if im correct? as it diminishes after 307? I am be wrong, just sharing what i know. Appreciate the correction if you're correct though :)

[Storfan 24]

8 minutes ago, Lollies said:

Its around .16% hit if im correct? as it diminishes after 307? I am be wrong, just sharing what i know. Appreciate the correction if you're correct though :)

The main draw of weapon skill isnt the +hit it provides, its the glancing blow negation. I will not go into details but weapon skill is the BEST stat you can get.

[Yoga 3]

What does weapon skill actually do? A glancing blow is a normal white hit against a monster of higher level than yourself that can not crit and deals reduced damage. You will always have 40% chance to land a glancing blow against a boss, and these hits will only deal 70% of a normal hits damage. What extra weapon skill does is reduce the amount of damage lost by glancing blows. Without going into too much detail, you want to have 315 weapon skill in order to make your glancing blows deal full damage. There is no concrete information what 1 point of weapon skill does, but in order to make it easier to calculate things later on.. we simplyfy things and say 1 weapon skill increases the percentage amount of the damage done by glancing blows by 2.

 

The 2% per weapon skill isn't totally true but if you use it as a "guide" here you will get 12*2% = 24% more dmg on 40% of your with attacks. 24% more dmg on 40% of your white attacks means ~ 10% more dmg in all of your white attacks -> ~ 10% more rage gained to use abilitys.