by Uhaen » Wed Jan 14, 2009 12:48 am
The agro from HoHV is ass; they nerfed the massive agro advantage it had a LONG time ago, back when clerics could hold it from warriors because the heal wasn't a recourse (I *heard*! At the time that HoHV came out on, coincidently, the HoHV from Vallon, I was still pulling singles in Dreadlands). And that story is mine! He said the agro sucked, so I held it off of him just to prove that rune5 on your weapon doesn't mean anything in terms of skill.
I went in on the weapon for two reasons; first, I've always wanted an HoHV weapon. Ever since I saw a cleric gleaming with constant group heals, I've thought 'damn; nothing can be sexier than Hopebringer on crack.' and not even rune5 steps up to it for me. Secondly, it's exactly what ZsaZsa said; We haven't had 1hb in forever, and even though it's a fairly crappy reason (and weapon for that matter, ratiowise!) the graphic did it for me. Greatstaff of Power with a shield in offhand? Yes please.
However, I do think we should form a collective petition to change at least one of our raid weapons into a 1hb. The last two expansions, we've had three; five of the six have a rune proc, and in all ways they're linear upgrades to each other. Since most of us are going to hold at least two of the three of each expac, I think it's only fair that we keep at least one of them so we can hit blunt-resistant mobs without giving up a shield. We have piercing covered with knight-specific lances though, and I'm not too much worried about that as much as bringing back a Flanged Prayer Mace; that weapon was sweet!