Repruposed dredger (aka armor pen at 19)

[Grabco]

So i have been curious about this item since it came out, the reason being that this item is the only item available to twinks with armor penetration on it.



The value for armor penetration is located under the hit stat on your character sheet. The value I see is 4 armor penetration reduces targets armor by up to 5.03%



ATM i have 1188 armor (37.09% damage reduction) *.0503 = 59.75 armor reduction.



so when i take off fishing hat 43 armor and necklace 6 agi/or 12 armor (55 armor) I have 1133 armor and the percentage now says reduces damage by 35.99



If I was attacking a clone of myself the lava dredger would improve my physical damage against the target by about 1.1%



This percentage goes up if the target is more heavily armored and down if they are less well armored. This is an interesting looking weapon definately unique it is full of stats including some pretty good fire resist +15, (match that with a +10 shadow cloak and some magic resist rings and you have a pretty good anti lock set.) +6agi, +10stam, 4 armor pen, 9 attack power

not great top end damage but really good dps.



at 2.90 speed this is almost as fast as a slow one hander i think SF is 2.7, I put a fiery on it.



This is not the best in slot weapon by any means but you could have some fun with it. might try it against warrior sometime.

 

[iaccidentallytwink]

5%? Damn, that's quite the ArP at 19.

And lol, +15 Fire Resistance at ANY level is OP. Incoming Resist nerf.

 

[Coolzo]

I see some sad fire mages and a few disappointed warriors.

 

[Grabco]

i've been using this thing in a couple of gulches and it's not bad, the proccing speed it was makes it good. dps is the same as BAR but you get your burst damage with the procs (ie fiery). you could also could switch out during a sader proc and get 4 swings instead of 3. just a thought.

 

[Falkor]

ArP is only good when stacked, so i doubt the small amount on the dredger would be game changing, but feel free to test it throughly.

 

[Grabco]

Yeah the ArP is not game changing at all. My math came out to only a 1% increase in damage. So if my weapon damage the like 130 (from character sheet) this would mean 1.3 increase in damage = 131.3.



I am actually more interested in testing the speed coupled with procs. Although I have no hard evidence, I'm finding the weapon seems really good at getting that last hit just before someone gets out of range.



If you are thinking about picking one up I would urge you to do so. It's a fun toy and the rotating gear with fiery looks cool

 

[rishi]

"I see some sad fire mages"



They should be sad, theyre trying to DPS as a Mage at 19.

 

[Lawlpurge]

lol this ^

 

[Twinkytoes]

"I see some sad fire mages"



They should be sad, theyre trying to DPS as a Mage at 19.

Rofl. That's classic.

 

[Conrose]

I wonder if the ArmPen will get switched to Mastery Rating with Cataclysm.