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What did you do when you wanted to use the weapon? You have started playing World of Warcraft, chose which types of weapon that you wanted or only stuck with the type of weapon. Later on, if you make a decision that you want to learn to make use of a different type of weapon. Maybe it can be a hassle for you to raise your skill in the new branch. Here are some tips about learning new weapons.
There are many different weapon groups for you to train in and the trainers for different types of weapons are scattered amongst the major cities for Alliance or Horde. The weapon trainer in your home major city will tell you where you can train for weapons that they don't offer. Keep in mind that some classes can not use certain types of weapons.
Let's take a Rogue as example. It specializes in daggers but you decide to "spec" in combat. This is not an ideal weapon/spec combination.
You will need a dagger in your main hand if your heart is set on backstabbing your enemies. For the most part, mutilation may be a better spec for that. Though a slower weapon has higher critical damage is a better option than a dagger that has faster attack but lower damage for a combat spec. By lower damage I mean overall attack damage, not to be confused with damage per second (DPS). The reason a slower and higher attack weapon is better is that you get much better damage by using the special attacks that the combat spec uses. So now you need to learn different weapon classes.
As above, a good solution would be to keep your dagger in your main hand and put a sword, mace or fist weapon in your off hand. Regardless of your world of warcraft character is, you have the ability to begin to raise that weapon skill in your off hand. Once you get that skill raised to a comfortable weapon skill level for your character level (level x 5), then you can put it in your main hand and go from there. If you need to raise another weapon skill, rinse and repeat. If you are getting beat up badly because you are not connecting with your unskilled, off hand weapon, keep your bag open that has another weapon in which you are more skilled and switch weapons in the middle of the fight. Regain your health after the fight and start over with your "bad" weapon.
You will be able to max your weapon skills as quickly as possible through using this method. As we all know, we never used a one hand mace on our Rogue until level 76 but was maxed out within a level one or two. At present, the Rogue is equally skilled in daggers, one hand swords, one hand maces and fist weapons which show as unarmed skill by using this method. By the same token, throwing but that is a different issue. This will work for all melee classes.
There is an achievement for mastering four different weapons. Typically you can get all four weapon types skilled up each level. If you are still a point or two away from your max by the time you "ding", don't sweat it because you will raise skills quickly when starting a new level.
Even if you are completely unskilled in a weapon, do not let that prevent you from getting your achievement and being versatile enough to be proficient in several weapon types because you just never know when a great item will drop in an instanced dungeon. The unknown is one of the perks of World of Warcraft.
There are many different weapon groups for you to train in and the trainers for different types of weapons are scattered amongst the major cities for Alliance or Horde. The weapon trainer in your home major city will tell you where you can train for weapons that they don't offer. Keep in mind that some classes can not use certain types of weapons.
Let's take a Rogue as example. It specializes in daggers but you decide to "spec" in combat. This is not an ideal weapon/spec combination.
You will need a dagger in your main hand if your heart is set on backstabbing your enemies. For the most part, mutilation may be a better spec for that. Though a slower weapon has higher critical damage is a better option than a dagger that has faster attack but lower damage for a combat spec. By lower damage I mean overall attack damage, not to be confused with damage per second (DPS). The reason a slower and higher attack weapon is better is that you get much better damage by using the special attacks that the combat spec uses. So now you need to learn different weapon classes.
As above, a good solution would be to keep your dagger in your main hand and put a sword, mace or fist weapon in your off hand. Regardless of your world of warcraft character is, you have the ability to begin to raise that weapon skill in your off hand. Once you get that skill raised to a comfortable weapon skill level for your character level (level x 5), then you can put it in your main hand and go from there. If you need to raise another weapon skill, rinse and repeat. If you are getting beat up badly because you are not connecting with your unskilled, off hand weapon, keep your bag open that has another weapon in which you are more skilled and switch weapons in the middle of the fight. Regain your health after the fight and start over with your "bad" weapon.
You will be able to max your weapon skills as quickly as possible through using this method. As we all know, we never used a one hand mace on our Rogue until level 76 but was maxed out within a level one or two. At present, the Rogue is equally skilled in daggers, one hand swords, one hand maces and fist weapons which show as unarmed skill by using this method. By the same token, throwing but that is a different issue. This will work for all melee classes.
There is an achievement for mastering four different weapons. Typically you can get all four weapon types skilled up each level. If you are still a point or two away from your max by the time you "ding", don't sweat it because you will raise skills quickly when starting a new level.
Even if you are completely unskilled in a weapon, do not let that prevent you from getting your achievement and being versatile enough to be proficient in several weapon types because you just never know when a great item will drop in an instanced dungeon. The unknown is one of the perks of World of Warcraft.
