Yes it does, and don't worry about the hunter thing.  A few very lucky MS warriors and ret paladins will get this, but there will be many that drop with only a hunter present.  However your tank may want it for off-spec.

Dude he wasn't saying it's a hunter weapon, he was asking if the haste rating effects ranged. Learn to read before you flame! And in responce to the previous post, yes it does effect your ranged haste.

Did you even read his post?

What are you talking about not raid viable... Some of the best slam rot. warriors use a build that includes ms so they can get the bloodfrenzy debuff along with it... Hell, most slam warriors go for ms until they get the massive amounts of ap required to make bloodthirst godly.

If your referring to the fact that most raid dps warriors dual wield... Ms is just as good as dual wielding and can be better if the slam warrior isn't a huntard and knows how to do a rotation while clipping white attacks as little as possible. Further more, slam warriors don't require the same amount of +hit as dual wielding warriors and cap at 145 making it easier for them to spend more money on gems with stats for higher crit and ap. Not only that but, we won't miss like dual warriors do with their offhand quite often until they waste an obscene amount of yellow gemslots on +hit while slam can use those for their +crit.

Now commenting on the weapon... It's a very nice weapon because it's damage per hit is based on a 3.7 attack speed, yet it has haste and would work well with some haste gear to get a nice tight slam rotation. Also, it's not true that slower is better for slam rotation warriors. It's just that usually fast weapons don't hit hard... if you can get a slow weapon and speed it up to around 3.2 your gonna be doing way more damage than a weapon at 3.5+. However, if you have flurry (which you should as a slam warrior), you should calculate what that's gonna put your speed at and make sure you have more than 2.8 unless you have 0 latency and super cat like reflexes and can do a rotation at 2.6.

basically you can figure how much time you need by looking at what times you usually hit shit... in a perfect world you'd hit slam .4 seconds before a white attack and then after that white attack would only have 1.1 seconds till your instant which would then leave you with 1.5 seconds till you can use slam again +.1-.2 seconds based on reaction time. thats 2.6+ seconds there so your attack speed needs to be higher than that.

Oh yeah... i know some nub is gonna say slam resets your white attack and you can't use it before a hit, which is true except that .5 seconds before a white attack you can see yourself winding up for a swing... at this point  you can use slam without stopping your white attack since the attack  is already in motion. Try it if you don't believe me...

Nice sword though, gratz to whoever obtains this beast.

"Why do hunters get so much hate?"
Because 95% of people on a server roll hunters, and 94% have no idea how to use them. And from your post I'm kinda guessing you one of the 94%.

But this isn't a bad hunter weapon. The extra stam can be nice for those times when your GOING to get hit (Hunters will get hit, even in PVE, ever heard of AOE Boss Effects?), The attack power is amazing, and haste is very nice since haste effects all hunter abilities. But, a hunter shouldn't be rolling on this is a Warrior or Pally wants it. Because we hunters are only in this for the stats, while a pally or warrior will be able to use its amazing DPS and the stats. So yeah hunters do have a right to this, but only after the classes that can utilize this the best have it or don't want it.

Shadowcatch
70 Hunter, Kilrogg

Nvm, I just calculate it myself !!

The DPS of this baby gets to 134,15 with the +45 haste rating on it !

Means it has the same basic DPS than the S3 2h weapons

Just curious, whats you beef with raiding ret pallies?

Thanks to recent patch improvements:

Increase Crit 3% for EVERYONE w/ Imp SoCrusader

Increase Damage 2% for EVERYONE w/ Imp Sanctity Aura

Can rival damage of any other dps class with talent Vengeance (Max 15% Physical AND Holy damage increase)

Not only rivals damage, but increases everyone else's damage as well.
In the past Ret pallies def were terrible for raiding and really were very rarely allowed to raid anyway. The recent improvements have made them much more viable than adding another rogue/warrior/mage to your raiding roster. Those classes can get all the endgame gear they want, they are not going to match +3%crit and +2% damage for the entirety of the raid.

Get out of the past and think smart u conservative bum lawl

- Fixed

So I assume you (if u were a hunter) would have no problem if someone was to roll against you if Trollbane dropped right? I mean if it was an upgrade for them... right?

And the same could be said if Tuskbreaker or Ancient Amani Longbow dropped and a rogue or war rolled on it?

And since Legacy could still be an "upgrade" to even a war... lets just say a prot war needing on dps gear... you wouldnt have a problem right? Damn, i wish there were more ppl like you. I would LOVE to run a pug with you on my rogue or war to grab all those loots from ya. I have no prob with stealing hunter gear... oops... i mean ROLLING on "upgrade gear" >.<