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Spell damage weapons vs warrior weapons

I wanted to sit down and actually test the different damage that a tank weapon versus 
a spell damage weapon would make. I decied the best way to do this is start hitting 
the training dummies.  I have no mods that report my dps, so this is stricly me hitting 
the dummy 6 times and recording my highest hit (non crit).

This first test is me with no gear on except a weapon.

Col1 = [Amani Punisher]
Col2 = [King's Defender]
Col3 = [Cudgel of Consecration]

NAKED DMG - ONLY USING WEAPON
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	Col1	Col2	Col3
white	84	147	124
seal	42	22	49
hammer	333	536	332
conc	114	102	113
judge	215	124	210
veng	193	172	192
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ALLDMG	981	1103	1020
HOLYDMG	897	956	896

The difference in the new talents and gear changes makes the surpizing victor for
overall damage the warrior weapon!  As you can see from the results, Col2 (which is 
the King's Defender) has an overall greater damage just based on six swings. However, 
if you remove Hammer of Righteous damage the spell damage weapons produce more overall 
damage.

I was shocked, so I put on all my gear and tried the tests again.



GEARED DMG
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	Col1	Col2	Col3
white	147	184	155
seal	93	71	109
hammer	482	635	482
conc	148	137	148
judge	428	337	423
veng	193	172	192

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ALLDMG	1491	1536	1509
HOLYDMG	1344	1352	1354

When wearing my full set of pally tank gear (kara,badge,gruul), the results start to
come together.  The same thing as before, all damage increases however the spell damage
weapons start to inch closer to the warrior weapon.  And if you remove using Hammer of
Righteous, they pull ahead yet again.

SUMMARY
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So what does this tell us?  Go for stats, whatever weapon fits your needed critera better.
If your looking for more block value, get a sword with str/def.  If your looking for more
AOE damage, switch to that spell damage weapon. I believe the new changes just allow a 
pally tank to use whatever weapon becomes available to them without losing the ability
to be the best damn pally tank they can be.

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