Question about melee WHM weapons.Follow

Since I don't forsee a Kraken Club in my future, I have begun building an Oa2-4 times Naboot+3, my question is if I am better off building a Double Atk+10 club rather than the Occasionally attacks 2-4 when it comes down to strictly TP gain. I have a Gambanteinn for my main hand and am just looking for something to use in my off-hand that will help with TP gain while not sacrificing a lot of damage (The Naboot will do similar damage to Gamby). Along with my other melee gear I feel that it will be a nice setup to gain TP fast enough to make good use of Aftermath, but I am wondering that since DA, TA, QA all compete with OaX weapons, if I am going to be sacrificing TP gain. If not then it's all gravy but I don't want to go through the trouble of making a weapon and finding out I should have made the other instead. Anyone have a solid answer?

do you have a lot of double/triple/quad attack on your whm gear? (Just curious, I haven't seen a lot of it)

I should mention that I mathed out DA vs. Mjo/KC here:
http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/42449-WHM-Melee-random-crap?p=4527057#post4527057

And below that, TA vs. Mjo/KC here:
http://www.bluegartr.com/threads/42449-WHM-Melee-random-crap?p=4569319#post4569319

In the case of OA2-4, DA actually should help, just not as much as it does for normal weapons!

Short:
-- Kraken may be hurt by DA, but helped by TA, and QA.
-- OA2-4 should be helped by DA, TA, and QA!

Note:
I say "may/should" because it does depend on your melee:WS damage ratios a little bit :)
However provided it isn't astronomically far away from 1:1, DA/TA/QA are still helpful!

Edited, Mar 29th 2012 10:08pm by RyaWHM

Double attk/dual wield Royal Redingote, Double Attk/haste A Shantotto pants, Double attack on Blithe Mantle, Triple/Quad on Windbuffet Belt, Brutal earring

So about +7 Double Attack, +1 and 2% Triple/Quadruple attack


Halfway done with my Naboot+3 (OaX variety) (Getting Krabkatoa shells is a bit harder than I imagined, have 5 of the 10 I need), but all in all the melee setup is coming along nicely.

Anyone know of a good neckpiece? Currently I'm using Ziel Charm for the +12 Acc, and I haven't decided if I should use the Kthonios Mask or Zelus Tiara. Will probably make a Light Gorget as well for WS and test it out in combination with Light Belt. I also need to find some decent boots then my entire setup is just about done.

Have to say Rubeus Spats looking very very nice....never seen/heard of those before this.

Savateur's Gaiters are also very nice.

So far I've been able to push Hexa Strike (with aftermath) up to 49XX dmg in aby. Granted this was before +2 Double Attk (not sure if this will really help all that much), and I still have yet to make a Light Gorget and test it with a Light Belt vs. Light Gorget / Windbuffer Belt. Windbuffet seems like a great belt for spike damage but I'll have to see once I get a Light gorget whether Light Belt will be worth it to macro in for WS. Currently I like Windbuffet over Light Belt for WS as it seems it improves damage output considerably. I need to hunker down and finish out AMK missions for the hat for an added boost in damage. Does anyone use Kthonios Mask?? Wondering if I should go with that or get Zelus Tiara for the extra 4% haste. Fought Panto 2x and even with blue and TH did not get the tiara to drop. Oh well. Should have Naboot finished up to the silver mirrors this week! Currently at 80/150 silver mirrors as well. 42/1500 Heavy Metals for my Gamby upgrade! Lol

Luckily I got into a PUG for some random seals I needed last night and came across an LS farming plates and souls, asked them if I could pop Ironclad and got another popset for Panto. Will try again with blue and TH and see what happens.

I'll definitely try out Rancor Collar. Realm is fun to use inside or outside aby (the damage isn't always great inside aby, but I like the way it looks), sometimes it actually does decent damage, but not enough to use it a lot in aby. Outside aby it's very consistent. I just gotta work on more MND gear to go with it. Anyway thanks for the suggestions!

First things first: Get a main-hand club. WHM/DNC has dual wield, so ditch that shield. KC is a great off-hand weapon but base damage is too low to effectively single-wield. Get something with a nice high base damage.

Also get rid of Brutal Earring in your Realm build. If you dual wield, Realm's 7 hits become 8, and 8 is the max number of hits for a WS. You literally cannot swing more than that.

Those are the only two glaring problems I see.