Yeah when we get into shadowlands its most likely gonna change since our azerite and essences wont work iirc.
But for people who leveled and are gearing a warrior in prepatch high ilvl weapons seem to be more important than meeting the requirements for SMF or the bonus stats from titans grip.
This might be because weapon dps is far more valuable than stats, but then two 2h should be way better since even at lower ilvl 2h have more dps than a higher ilvl 1h.
I’m not sure why, but I’m gonna do some testing where I remove azerite, essence and trinkets to reduce their impact and see if that changes the results.
Edit:
Did some more testing on target dummy for 5min where I removed Head, Shoulder, Neck and both Trinkets.(forgot to remove chest but without the neck the azerite traits dont do anything anyway)
TG = 1066
SMF =1026
2hMH & 1hOH=980
1hMH & 2hOH=951
So after this testing I can now see that when we get into shadowlands and lose our borrowed power TG and SMF is gonna matter more.
I still dont know if it might be worth it if you get big upgrade since my weapons are all 125 ilvl. The difference now between having TG/SMF or not seem to be around 10%, if you have Azerite and essences on the difference is only around 3% though.
If I can find some lower ilvl weapons I’m gonna test that too.
Update: Finally got around to getting some lower ilvl weapons.
I tried two ilvl81 2h weapons and then one 1h ilvl99 and one 2h ilvl81.
The dps is the same over a 5min fight.
My tests were done without the heart of azeroth so no azerite traits or essences.