1. Weapon choice based off speed

    Okay so I am wondering what's the best weapon for PVP, and I point out specifically that it's for pvp purposes on a level 70 paladin twink under the wotlk expansion. Here are the two options:

    http://wotlk.cavernoftime.com/item=34247 VS http://wotlk.cavernoftime.com/item=35015

    As you can see they are pretty much the same, one has three sockets and the other provides a bunch of useful stats for PvP. However, the main and most noticeable difference is the weapon speed. Apolyon is exceptional in PvE, whether you use seal of command or corruption, but for PVP you mostly want to use Righteousness due to his high burst damage. The problem is that seal of the righteousness works in a way that the slower the weapon is, the more damage it deals. So I wonder if it's worth sacrificing the attack power you get from the 3 sockets and the passive 126 AP for a bit less AP but a considerable slower weapon as well as the other useuful stats such as resilience and hit, which open the possibility to re-gem and enchant to more strength. What do you guys think? Would you go for Apolyon or the Brutal? and why?

  2. Depends on attack power you have got. Here you have the formula: https://db.darkwizard.pl/?spell=21084

    The damage may have some noticeable difference if you would have some serious 80lvl end gear with tons of ap. But since you don't I would definitely go for apolyon. The damage difference from seal will be minimal, may even be higher with apolyon (again, depends on your ap and sp) and since their damage spread is almost the same (404-607 and 404-606) all your other skills will benefit more from apolyon, because you'll have about 120 ap more.

  3. High rated ret palys on Outland used http://wotlk.cavernoftime.com/item=34247.
    I'd assume on wotlk that weapon is even more superior since you can put lvl 80 gems in it.

  4. -redacted-
    I thought this was a TBC post. _sly

    For twinking, you typically go for as much raw damage stats as you can get. Weapon speed matters little in this environment. If you need resilience, that's what your pvp set bonus items and 20 resilience wotlk epic gems are for.

  5. What you should check is weapon dmg range. So for Apolyon is404-607 and Brutal is 404-606. Add to that apolyon having better stats on it
    ,heck if you socket 20resi on the sockets it will have doulbe brutal's resilience, and Apolyon having better damage per second it is a far superior choice.

    P.S. Go full strength gems and its not even a consideration on wotlk with 20str gems.

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