The hammer of Northern wind has the highest proc rate for frostbolt proc weapons. Darrowspike dagger has one of the lowest. Cold rage is 2nd highest. And 2 cold rage will do for most people, however min maxers and lazy people still want the Hammer of Northern wind.
I bought about 15 of them for 20g in SoD, and sold all of them for 100g each in AQ40 dropped.
Wrong, I tested it, you can even find the info on wowhead's comment sections, coldrage is the highest proc chance, around 10%, the other two have around 3% proc chance but darrowspike is faster.
Good for you, personally it's not my thing to sell stuff based on wrong info, especially after testing it.
Not the numbers I've found, and I tested it the same way this guy did, except for one crucial difference, I didn't hit over 2000 swings, I took around 1 minute fights as a template. What tends to happen is proc get normalized over long periods of the time, but over short period of time, there's huge variance in classic, and faster weapon tend to reduce this variance over short period of time.
So you're right, strictly speaking, the ppm is higher for the hammer, in reality the way proc chance work with procs happening in the first few seconds of the fight, a short fight favors fast weapons, even if the proc is slightly inferior over long periods of time.
As a note, for this fight you would also apply frost oil, so anyway coldrage dagger is still the best option, and it's free.
Edit: one last proof, a comparison of logs, one using 2 coldrage dagger, the other using hammer +coldrage:
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u/CaptainInsanoMan 2d ago
The hammer of Northern wind has the highest proc rate for frostbolt proc weapons. Darrowspike dagger has one of the lowest. Cold rage is 2nd highest. And 2 cold rage will do for most people, however min maxers and lazy people still want the Hammer of Northern wind.
I bought about 15 of them for 20g in SoD, and sold all of them for 100g each in AQ40 dropped.