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The Executioner's Cleaver is a better level 43 BoE for Mortal Strike warriors because of its high max damage, but this would be fine for a paladin.

This weapon is way too slow for a ret paladin to use. You should go for the slowest weapon possible for the highest SoCommand procs, and this is far from the weapon of choice. As a bit of further information, for SoBlood, you are aiming for a weapon with a speed of 3.5. Hope this helps future paladins out there.

Uh, I think you mean it's too FAST for a Ret Pally Saying it's "too slow" and then "A Ret pally wants a slow as possible weapon" is a bit contradictory.

I found this item at the Auction House right as I hit level 43 and I have to say it's been one of my most cherished weapons thus far. I even went so far as to invest in a Fiery Enchant for it. Fantastic polearm for a Paladin.

Provided that you use Seal of Command, it's not exactly perfect for a paladin, CoS benefits most from slower weaps, 3,50 speed and slower.

Paladins really shouldn't be looking for PvP weapons at level 43, and Seal of Command is for PvP. It's more fun than Seal of Righteousness, but SoR is still the best seal to use while leveling (unless you're AoE grinding with a shield, where Seal of Light is more useful). So, considering that a level 43 paladin needs to level up and should use SoR regardless of their 2h weapon speed, I still think that this is a great weapon for a paladin.

Seal of Command is by no means only for PvP. It's definitely the most efficient way to level up, more-so than Seal of Righteousness. Oftentimes your SoC proc will nearly halve an equal leveled mob's hp, and combined with Hammer of Justice + Judgment it makes for extremely fast kills.

Fantastic Polearm, especially because of its +23 strength. I use it on my hunter and its been a big help for me if i had to melee something. I'd say it would be best for a warrior though, because of the strength, or a rogue, because of the stamina.

I hope you didn't need on this as a hunter... Also, rogues don't use polearms and most warriors want slow 2h for high damage MS. A prot warrior could use this for soloing, and I suspect it would be good for most paladins.

A rogue? rogues cant use polearms, lol!

Honestly I don't see why this was downranked. I think it's a hilarious post.

yeah, this would be a good weapon for a ret pally. probably not holy or prot

I use this on my pally, just bought it too and I like it.

I use this weapon on my 43 pally, it should last me until about level 48. I am a retribution pally and I like it does what I want it too with the strength and stamina.

Seal of command is best with 3.5 or slower, but really its not BAD with any 2h weapon speed. Its just worthless with 1h.

Seal of righteousness is best with 1h under 2.0 attack speed.

1h slower than 2 is the awkward one.

1H OVER 2.0 is easy, reckoning AoE grinding. It's a beautiful thing.

i agree. its awesome for a paladin. i have no enchants on it but my weapon skill is maxed out at lvl 46 its an amazing weapon for its level

Do you think this weapon, or the Ice Barbed Spear [http://www.wowhead.com/?item=19106], would be better for a retadin? The Ice Barbed Spear is slower, so better for SoC, but this has better stats. I'm tempted to get this weapon a Savagery enchant and take it all the way to Outland.

ice barbed spear is just better, period. it isn't even close. slower with higher max damage, more dps, and better stats. the strength is 10 less, but the extra 10 stamina and 21 agility more than make up for it. the 10 strength is 5 fewer DPS, but the base weapon is 12 dps higher...

Ah, thank you. I've been too used to playing a druid and forgetting to take weapon DPS into account.

now that druids can use polearms i use this on my feral druid with a 25agi enchant and it works great

How can a polearm possible chew bones... XD

The durability of this item is now 90 instead of 100, based on what dropped for me today in patch 10.0

This dropped off a [url=https://wowhead.com/npc=42975]Plague Ghoul[/url] after 23 runs of Stratholme. You should farm chests for better luck, Good luck!

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