I am not a hot melee as a bard. But with this in secondary and battle drummer's main gauche in primary, singing my haste song, I am standing toe to toe with mobs I used to have to chant and dance with. It hurts when they have a damage shield, though :-).
I won this in rolls with shadowheart on one UP raid. That was enough to make me get my piercing up, it is now maxed. In long fights I have to twist in a stamina regen or I start missing a lot - these are heavy for piercers.
And it does have a nice look, not one of your wimpy daggers.
Snagged this baby a few nights ago from Spirit of Tawro while in UP with my guild. 14/20 (fire dmg included) and uber dex/agi + damn good sta/str make this my secondary choice, with the Snowchipper primary. Liked it so much I went from 96 peircing skill to 210 in a few nights of exp :D
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Posted:Jun 22 2003 at 2:59 PM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) elemnetal dmg doesn't add to the ratio, it adds o the final ammount of dmg as a modifier.
Personally I think that using a shadow heart or flaming dirk in primary and LS of freedom in secondary along with a 40 percent PoA haste belt would work better than ragebringer. Y'see, both weapons have better ratios and if you pull out RB to BS you have a very good setup.
Tawro and Radir are easy to kill, drop these not too rarely, and are the perfect solution to guilds that aren't quite uber but are high lvl needing nice weapons for tanks.
RB adds 60 atk. 40 from equipping it and another 20 due to the str stats.
Parse logs on thesafehouse.org have shown RB in offhand with <insert nice rogue poker here> does more damage than 2 <insert nice weapon here> and a 40 or 41 haste item.
Heh, that's exactly the weapon combo I use, although only with 27% permanent haste (+20% optional from eyepatch). Worked very nicely for me. From 3 times I did Tawro he dropped once the LS, once the dirk and once the staff.
I tend to agree with this. Before I got my Ragebringer, I was using a Serpent's Tooth (13/27) and the Flaming Dirk (11/20). When I first got the Flaming Dirk, I used it in my offhand because the damage was lower. I decided to swap weapons. I'm glad I did, because even though the damage rating was "lower" (11 as opposed to 13), I was getting pierces as good or better than the Serpent's Tooth, and I got backstabs that were sometimes BETTER than I got with the Serpent's Tooth.
Now I wield this in my offhand with the Ragebringer in my primary, and with the 40% haste on the Ragebringer, I fight like a buzzsaw. :)
It may seem that way, but you are incorrect nonetheless. Elemental damage is flat damage, only Bane Vs _____ weapons actually add to the base damage of the weapon. otherwise this weapon would be incredibly powerful.
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What exactly is the 3 fire damage on it?....I was able to obtain this awesome weapon for my bard last night..but it has not processes yet soo was wondering if anyone know.
The Flaming Dirk also drops from the Spirit of Tawro, a level 60 elemental that spawns after killing Tawro Icequake, a level 60 Syl Ren (blue alien). So now there are at least two on my server. :)
I highly doubt it, not with those stats (which are dragon-like). Also, I've yet to find anyone else with one, not even on The Safehouse. Since Doomshade is a boss, he probably doesn't drop any everyone-has-one items.
Sort of, but it's not unique. It has the same look as the crude stone dagger you can find on newbie-ish creatures in Shadeweaver's Thicket. It has a wide, flat blade with a kind of yellowish stone colour. I know that doesn't describe it well, however. :\