Wow. I just read an elitist jerks post that reminded me why I love that forum.
Here's the scoop. When you're dual-wielding as a warrior, queuing up an on-next-swing attack makes your offhand (white) swing use the 1H miss table rather than the DW miss table. Which means, if you have 8% hit (or 5% with precision), you will never miss with an OH attack that occurs while the heroic strike button is lit up. The post goes into some detail about how to take the most advantage of this, by making sure your OH swings as late as possible, relative to your MH (giving you more of an opportunity to queue HS).
If you have two weapons with an identical speed, this means not using /startattack until you're within melee range of the target. If you do that, the OH will swing halfway through the MH swing timer. If you use /startattack when you're at range (and take more than Swing/2 to get there), your MH and OH will swing at more-or-less the same time, making it hard to take advantage of this bug.
There's also some other weird bug that can't really be exploited but causes Deep Wounds to do more damage than it should.
Both bugs are substantiated with combat log parses and tests. People were able to get 100% hit rates on their offhand weapon with only 8% hit (that should result in what, an 18% miss rate? I think the base DW miss rate on bosses is 26%, but I could be mistaken).
If nothing else, this makes HS actually something close to break-even in rage generation, since it ensures that your OH white attacks will hit, and if it crits (I get up to 65% crit rates in my mediocre gear) you get another 10 rage on top of that. Wild.
Keep spamming HS, my warrior brothers!
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Theoretically, I think this means you could trade all hit above 8% for crit, which is you take 12% hit and turn it into 12% crit, that's a metric-crap-ton more rage generation.
ReplyDeleteYep. Which feeds into the second bug, further inflating your DPS.
ReplyDeleteSince you pretty much have to spec 3/3 precision, you really only need 5% hit from items, too. I even traded out my PvE belt (with hit) for something that I got with PvP, because it had a bunch of crit on it. Of course, both my weapons have exactly the same swing speed, which means I need to be careful about how I initiate combat, so I can desynchronize my MH and OH weapons.