Why isn't dual wield Fury the best leveling spec?

[kiddcabbage]

Well, clearly yellow damage can't be ignored. Can someone get me the vanilla warrior ability formulas and I can see about incorporating those. Need rage formulas, too...

With all that math you did. Does it pretend that both the 2hand warrior and dw warrior have 100% hit chance?

No, if you read the formulas, you'll see that the 2H misses 5% and the DW weapons miss 24%.

[Dersock]

After following this post for some time and trying out all 3 different leveling specs on my alt warrior (though, not my first vanilla warrior) I have to side with the DW crowd. I have no empirical evidence or fancy formulas, just my personal experience so take it with a grain of salt...

However, one caveat would be that dual wielding really didnt feel viable until I hit the mid/late 30s. But after that even with the awful miss rate of DW, I still felt like I took down mobs quicker compared to using a 2 hander.