Grief or BotD For WW Fury Druid

[AndrewTheGreat]

hi guys, like the title says, should I use a Grief or BotD for my WW Fury Druid. He is PvM as well. Any suggestions would be great.

[Zangetsu]

Botd would be good for pvm because of the leech. Grief for pvp because it has more avg dmg.

[-Ferro-]

Botd=hihger range
Grief=more damage

[AndrewTheGreat]

Awsome, thanks for the input guy. Also, would you recommend HoW or Oak? I'm leaning towards HoW.

[zergling]

nope, oak better in every way. Name 5 skill ways you can get A. More enhanced damage. B. More life

A. Might Aura(from mercs)
Decriptify(reapers toll)
HOW
Concentration from Pride Merc
Fanat from beast/rogue faith merc
B. BO
Oak Sage
Lycan
Wups no more...

[inanefedaykin]

Ferro, what do you mean by higher range? If you mean damage range you're totaly off. The crappiest grief will give more damage then the best botd.

[MysticDragon]

I think he means an EBOTD made into a Berserker Axe which has a range of 3 vs. a Grief Phase Blade which has a range of 2.

[pipi-owner]

botd hands down (EbotdZ)
.. sure everyone knows Grief has nice dmg and all.. but it doesnt:
1) Dual Leech (enough said pvm wise)
2) 30+stat boost.. which basically is saying 60+vit for your build..= 120hp.. = a lot more when lyc

EbotdZ obviously destroys Grief.. even tho grief has the higher average dmg..bt whats dmg if you cant survive long enought to hit them.. ..

cheeers
PpZ

[inanefedaykin]

I think I shall clarify this little misconception because apparently simple math is beyond some people.

Berserker Axe: 24-71 damage.
Etheral Berserker Axe: 36-106.5

+400 damage grief zerker does 424-471 base damage
+415% ebotdz zerker does 185-548 damage

Now, the conclusions the unknowledgeable would draw from this is that a Perfect grief berserker axe has a better damage range, but a perfect ebotdz has a better max damage. This is of course true by itself. Now lets add off weapon enhanced damage. Lets say from a fortitude armor (because this is what you'll most likely be using on a melee charecter).

Grief: 424 + 300% = 1696 471 + 300% = 1884
1696-1884 damage
Ebotdz: 36 + 715% = 293.4 106.5 + 715% = 868
293 - 868 damage
Conclusion: The maximum damage on a perfect ebotdz is slightly higher then half the minimum damage on a grief weapon. This is of course, ignoring the other exceptional mods on both weapons but for outright damage, nothing beats grief. Ever.

[inkanddagger]

botd has speed advantage with range over the viable phase grief that fury can use, which is equal speed but less range.


PvP is more than point and click guys - If you don't know that then you don't know much, even if you are talking melee.