Dasva said:
Ill also save that with only 1 haste diff between askar and walmart .3 and .45 sec off recast even more little not to mention the vit on it and the melee stats to help you get more hate if you are meleeing.
Well if you go on that argument, that 1% of haste is neglible. The same can be said on 25 Def you'll take 0.2 less dmg (idk I didn't really calculate the formula but I'd bet it's even less than that). And trust me on this one +5 STR, DEX WON'T let you have more hate on PLD cuz you did more dmg on a high lvl mob.
This comes from a PLD with 8/8 sword merits and a decent DD set from my WAR.
So neither one will make a difference (based on the neglible argument), so why even bother. I haven't done the math but maybe that 1% haste + March songs which have a haste effect with two decimals. Might wind up taking 1 second. It's not really hard to swap gears for casting. So I'll take my chances.
But yeah for LOW LVL mobs Askar prolly is better for DDing on PLD