I got around to hitting 80 2-3 days ago and decided HFB seems like a fun spec, plus I could pickup Librarian Paper Cutters from the AH. I always heard they were the best HFB weapons until Naxx, but looking around on shadowpanther.net they don't seem nearly as good as I once thought. Just wondering what opinions are on the ratings from that site, because it lists a few easy to access starter weapons higher then the LPC..which I always thought was best because of it's amazingly fast speed - main hands, and off hands.
So according to shadowpanther, it would seem I should finish my argent tournament grind for a Spinal Destroyer, then put my Titansteel Shanker in the off hand.
What surprised me though, was how high it was rating the Broken Stalactite, even as an off hand weapon it's rating higher for PVE mutilate then a Librarian's Paper Cutter. They are both 130dps, blue level 80 daggers, but the BS has 1.8 speed compared to the LPC's 1.3 speed. I thought having a 1.3 speed would have bumped the LPC to the top of the list, especially for an off hand weapon, at least above every other level 80 blue, but according to shadowpanther I was wrong in that assumption.
Looking over those lists of MH and OH weapons for HfB would you say it's accurate? Or is he placing too much emphasis on the weapon stats alone, and not enough on the actual speed of the weapons?