Weapons Upgrades
I equipped Meazyn with a pair of Glinting Steel Daggers mainly for two x +12 Attack Power bonuses but also because her mele weapons were getting very low level. A nice sideeffect of using even level 31 daggers was their 1.5 sec swing speed: they could slash a level 31 murloc to pieces, they bordered on being viable weapons in themselves! The attack power added about 2 dps (ranged) which would be about a 5% improvement.
She's now level 35 and has donned a Swiftwind blue crossbow that I bought a couple of weeks back as it seemed cheap. This is a nice improvement over the level 30 green bow she has been using for ages: her ranged dps immediately went up by about 20% and the bow is fast too so will generate more crits and each hit is weaker and will draw less aggro. The one thing I don't like about fast weapons is that you use your arrows up so much faster, however I am an experienced enough hunter by now to remember to stock up on ammo whenever I pass a vendor.
Hum, a quick bit of research tells me that a faster weapon gets a better dps boost from fitting a scope so I may have to treat myself to one. When it comes to speed I'm not all that interested in shot rotations: clipping a fast-but-weedy autoshot in favour of an Arcane shot every now and then isn't the end of the world in a ten second grinding fight.
Peter's Moblog
