Dual Wield unholy: am I just bad or is the scripting different to classic
Hey everyone, first time poster here.
I played on this server on and off for about 2 years now.
Recently I got interested in going for the dual wield route for my unholy dk, since the spec has the lowest prio on SM. I thought I'd give this a try seeing how good it was performing on classic, nearly as good as the 2H spec with SM.
I don't have the best pieces, but it's only a matter of time until I'll get most of them. Here's my armory:
https://armory.warmane.com/character...daeron/summary
I'll go for full offset pieces as Sarthe's guide recommended in his guide, until I'll have full heroic t10. Weapons should be correct, slow MH, fast OH.
Missing the 277 haste legs + 277 shoulders from rotface. I simmed my weapon combo against Sarthe's realistic bis and it's equal in damage.
I also went to a sim website to compare my 2h spec vs this... dual wield comes out 500 dps ahead consistently.
Now I beleieve I got the opener + the overall rotation pretty well in place... again checked Sarthe's guide + I also analysed the sim timeline to see how that goes about it.
Disappointment hit when I started testing the spec on dummy. I followed the sim rotation down to a T, had only self buffs(horn)... the result? 2h spec was ahead by 400 dps ?!?! WHAT?
In raids I had the same situation, just felt like doing lower damage than 2H. I tested it specifically on festergut, braindead fight where I just concentrate on the rotation and nothing else. Had all the buffs in both instances, prepot, snapshotted everything with gargoyle and aotd(trinkets, eng gloves, haste pre-pot, racial, sigil, flask). I cant seem to get there, with dual wield, but maybe I'm just bad. Really hoped that I could main this as the 2H rotation is insanely boring and repetitive, at least dual wield is more dynamic.
Another thing that seems insane to me is the dps the guys were pulling in wotlk classic. They had toc gear and on fights like Festergut, they are just peaking at insane numbers in their opener, 20-21k. I cant even get close to that here on Lordareon. I'm barely peaking at like 16k in my opener while following their rotation.
Could you guys enlighten me? It's probably just me being bad at the game or is the scripting different on wotlk classic? is snapshotting working in the same way here?
Maybe someone else tested dual wield unholy on here and can share their opinion on it or some tips?