Choosing a weapon upgradeFollow

I may be wrong, but I'm not familiar with a 2h mace that drops in WC or SFK. What exactly did you get? It's been my understanding that the warblade should last a Belf pally into his mid-20s most of the time.

I'd also advise you to look at the Pally sticky again. You've switched to Ret now I see, which means you do not want a FASTER weapon speed. You want a nice slow weapon in order to hit your mob as hard as possible, not as often as possible.

As a final point, and I mean this with all the kindness I can muster, would you please consider taking stock of what you are doing and what your goals are? You don't need to race to 80, please don't feel pressured to race to 80, but based on the threads you've started here over the last few weeks, you're taking an unusually long time to level your character relative to the amount of time you appear to spend researching gear upgrades and talent trees and such information.

I almost want to say you're overthinking these things. What works for most people is to go into a quest hub for their faction, pick up all the quests, turn them in, and move on to the next quest hub. You will get the gear you need. Run the lowbie instances a couple times each (for fun, not for gearing) and continue on. You will get the gear you need. If you keep plugging along, you'll have some spare gold lying around if your armor gets 8-10 levels out of date and you want a reasonably priced piece from the AH. If you'd rather grind mobs to level or if you'd prefer to sit in an inn and RP, that's your choice (but I suspect that that's not what you're doing).

You remind me of a former guildie, to a certain extent, who was a great guy, but he'd get his heart set on a sweet weapon from RFK for example and want to run it 20 times until it would drop, at which point he'd then turn and want something specific from SM or RFD and it just continued on and on, endlessly running lowbie instances to get gear that he never really seemed to "need" for anything he was doing. I think he got very frustrated in the end and just want to help you get back on track if that's what you think you need.

Good luck!

I can only add if you get the Addon called ratingBuster you will know exactly what stats you gain or lose , but remember ret pallys need a slow weapon and also that RatingBuster does not take into account any item enhancements or at least seems to ignore them for me.

Certainly that much is true, especially at the OP's level. However, the scenario you provided will never actually come into play at the level cap; there are, to my knowledge, no faster swinging weapons with a higher average damage when compared to slower swinging weapons.

In regards to the OP though, I'd agree with you. Most likely the mace he got has a higher ilvl than the Warblade, so it's unfair to compare the two. If it's got better average damage and better stats, take it. At your level swing speed won't matter as much. It really won't matter till you hit the level cap and start looking at end-game boss drops and such.

Edited, Apr 8th 2009 2:56pm by Wchigo