Green warrior 1h aggro weapons

[treefiddey]

If your money is limited -> 2 Obsidian Shards until SSoY.

The DPS difference between Shark Tooth/Polished Steel Dirk and 2x Obsidian Shards is 25% (31 dps vs 25 dps, by my crude calculation). For a 60 second fight, that's 360 extra dmg, which is not much at 50. I'm not 50 yet, so I can't parse this to prove it.

I agree that Gnoll Hide Lariat and Tentacle Whip DPS is such garbage that they're probably not worth it.

If you're grouping with a rogue or monk, your white dmg threat is not going to be enough. Sure, there are workarounds - root, asking rogue not to BS right off the bat, etc, etc...

In my experience, you want as much margin on the threat list as possible, so if you have to disengage to reposition the mobs or something, you can do that and they'll follow you, no matter what the bard or rogue decide to do. Or, maybe you need to tank 2 mobs at once. Happens, especially in PUGs. With a few procs on 1 mob, you have a shot of switching to another and taunting it off the healer.

To sum up, threat gen and aggro management are far more important than a DPS boost for a tank and 2x Obsidian Shards is the cheapest way to get there.

PS: even with 2x Obsidian Shard, it's still going to be dicey at times, depending on the group.