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.
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.