Item of the Week: Temporary Weapon Stones

From the official patch notes as of 3/2/08:

"Weightstones and Sharpening Stones: The bonus damage from these temporary enchantments now works while shapeshifted."

I have never really used any temporary enchants, but after seeing this, I have seen the light! For maces and staffs, the two most common types of weapons used by druids, our choices are: Adamantite Weightstone or Elemental Sharpening Stone. The Weightstone is a bar-o-love that, once wrapped onto the end of your stick with two nicely selected pieces of Netherweave, will give:

+0.54% Critical Strike and +12 "unmodified" DPS.

/duck from theorycrafters, who will tell your cat that the true increase in DPS will be higher and dependent on your crit% and hit%. Regardless, make friends with a Blacksmith now!

Elemental Sharpening Stone may actually be better (can't confirm that it works on a druid atm, none on my server for sale) for critty cats than the Adamantite version, if you prefer the pure crit approach, as it gives:

+1.27% Critical Strike.

While the truly wealthy will not balk at the ~2-3g per Elemental Stone, Adamantite stones (~1-1.5g) may be a bit cheaper as they are based on TBC mats. Also keep your radar on for undead-populated encounters in WotLK, something like a Consecrated Sharpening Stone could make another appearance from the nice folks at the Argent Dawn.

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