WotLK Shadowmourne VS Oathbinder HC

[dedufinhora]

Hi, so i've got my hands on a Arms Warrior fully bis except Smourne.. Instead of smourne the toon has Oathbinder.. 6500 gs atm.. So the question is, will i notice a big difference if donating for smourne? Only PvP wise, idc about PvE.. Will i do plenty more DPS or not?

Noticed also that there's many top ranked 2s warriors that dont have smourne.. So i guess oathbinder is completly fine?

[Drunkuser]

Shadowmourne hits harder, higher weapon dmg plus strength proc. Oathbinder however gives tons of agility, thus more crit and dodge. Crit is good on war but honestly I don't know where to draw the line where you are "crit capped" in PvP and is just plain better go for strength/arp/atk everything else.

Imho SM is overall better, but not by much. It costs more than 6 Oathbinders, but ofc is not 600% better, more like 10-15%, so it's heavily overpriced.

[Sprotess]

If you have coins to spend and have the opportunity to choose between full BiS with Oath or naked with SM+WF shoulders+STS+DBW, go for the second option by all means. If you already have the character with the first option, upgrading to Shadowmourn won't make a huge difference until ~2.2k mmr