Weapon damage vs secondary stats

TheGooch

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With things like Taskmaster Axe and Smite's hammer available, are they actually better than having secondary stats? 11 fury warrior if that matters.

I'm using Pendulum of Doom (ilvl 54 from vendor) to compare.
 
Yes.

Open your spell book and look at your ability like Bloodthirst or Whirlwind with different weapons on them.
 
Any ilvl60 weapon with 4.7 damage per sec, 6 str, 13 secondaries will be best in slot right now. Same with offhand(Runeblade of Baron Rivendare is also very good here). Avoid mastery. These are followed fairly closely by Hatebringers due to the sockets. Note-farm hatebringers now because if the PTR changes that reduce TW gear ilvl end up working retroactively they will be bis.
 
Any ilvl60 weapon with 4.7 damage per sec, 6 str, 13 secondaries will be best in slot right now. Same with offhand(Runeblade of Baron Rivendare is also very good here). Avoid mastery. These are followed fairly closely by Hatebringers due to the sockets. Note-farm hatebringers now because if the PTR changes that reduce TW gear ilvl end up working retroactively they will be bis.
What is TW ilvl reduced to on the PTR?
 
What is TW ilvl reduced to on the PTR?
Last I checked, level 11 TW ilvl was dropped from 60 to 42 but it didn't change existing items. That was a few weeks ago. It may have changed. Or existing items might be nerfed when it goes live. That happened previously with WoD dungeon gear in DF. At that point, you may just want to use Hatebringer instead.
 
I have 4 different toons.

x2 pendulums on Imperatorbel whirlwind does 87dmg but switching to Waveslicer and Hatebringer with vers and gems gets 90 dmg.

Bwiandazugz is doing 105 dmg with whirlwind with Runeblade + Hatebringer

While Briandelsanz is doing 101 dmg with Ruenblade + Hatebringer

ANd Izzylamor is doing 94 dmg with Runeblade + Hatebringer

But the goal wasn't even to boost the Whirlwind dmg it was to boost the Bloodthirsty and Slam Dmg.

Which on both Bwians are hitting 420+ and close to 500s in dungeons.

So there's a 20.6% difference in dmg between Bwaindazugz vs Imperatorbel when Bel is using pendulums. vs a 16% difference with Waveslicer and Hatebringer.

I think a lot of it has to do with the +str trinkets.

Because the best bang for your buck is +3 str because each str tends to stack up dmg boost - especially with Bloodthrist dmg difference being 375 dmg with Bel and 439 dmg with Zugz. A difference of 17%

I've found the best combo for dmg to be Runeblade + Hatebringer with +3 str gems to be the highest dmg boost.

Taskmasters lowers the dmg of bloodthirst to 420 and 101. While it shows a higher top end damage and over dmg...

So check your spell book and hover how much value you're getting on your items.
 

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