Goranga Spiked Club  

 

I just got a GSC tonight finally. All I can say is wow. My main hand damage is down slightly... not really all that noticeable but the speed more than makes up for it.

I'm soloing tribal gatherers in Dawnshroud right now, and my attack animations rarely stop for more than a split second, with very little delay in the "battle spam" as well.

I highly reccomend any monk (probably slightly twinked like me...) with a haste item (FBSS or SCHW) at least go pick one of these up to try. I mean they are free... all you have to do is show up in Maiden's Eye during peak times and you'll get one. It's worth it to at least look at them.

I would suggest just doing one OOC when you first enter.

he was no less than 49 and prolly not much higher

ur complaining we practicaly have no good weapons until lvl. 45 unless ur twinked at least you beastlords can use deepwater harpoons which are 2 hand slashing us monks can only use pestilince scythe as 2 hand slashing

this is way better than wu's crap stick

People tend to overestimate the impact that delay and damage bonus have on the total damage they inflict in combat. Roanin's post is a good opportunity to illuminate this fact with concrete numbers. Please note that all calculations consider no haste effects and that no attacks miss. Remember that the goranga spiked club gains a greater advantage from haste than the jade mace, because of its higher delay. (Since haste is a percentage reduction, higher delays will have a greater numerical amount shaved off them than lower delays.)

A level 35 melee will only have a damage bonus of 2 or 3 points when wielding a one-handed weapon. The jade mace will have a extra 3 damage every 1.8 seconds, while the club will have the same 3 damage every 2.3 seconds. Thus, the jade mace boasts a damage bonus of 1/6 of a point for every 0.1 delay of the weapon, while the club has a damage bonus of slightly more than 1/8 for every 0.1 delay of the weapon.

You can see how, at low level, the relatively minor difference in the two weapons' delays causes them to have very similar damage bonus numbers. Coupled with the fact that the club has a better ratio to begin with, it will do more damage at low levels.

Furthermore, the damage bonus will be 11 at level 60. The jade mace will then have a damage bonus of just a little less than 2/3 of a point per 0.1 delay, while the goranga spiked club will weigh in at a little less than 1/2 of a point per 0.1 delay. With a difference in delay of only 0.5 seconds, a jade mace will inflict about 10/3 points more damage in bonus damage than a goranga spiked club will, over a period of 2.3 seconds (the total time for the club to swing once). In terms of damage per minute, this adds up to roughly 87 additional points of damage bonus damage per minute, beyond what is inflicted by the weapon's ratio.

From these numbers, one can surmise that it is entirely possible that even at level 60, that 3.3 extra damage will fail to compensate for the superior ratio of the club. More precise numbers involving damage calculation of the weapons themselves are not available, so we are relegated to the realms of speculation on that score. It is evident that the club is better at lower levels, which benefit less from bonus damage, however. :)

What he prolly meant was that a jade mace is faster than the club so people might opt to go with jade mace for the more frequent swings.

Wurmslayer is a garbage weapon. It has very high delay for a 1 hander so you lose out bigtime with the relatively small damage bonus. On a faster weapon the small damage bonus is more in line with the delay so you get way more benefit from it.
It weighs a ton so you'll be fatigued constantly.
It's giant sized so you need special packs to carry.
El junkers. Don't bother with wurmy unless you can find it for a nice cheap price and have alot of sta.
This guy isn't too bad tho.

Biz.