Iron Counterweight vs Enchant Chest - Minor Absorption

Iron Counterweight
Use: Attaches a counterweight to a two-handed sword, mace, axe or polearm making it 3% faster.
Sells for 5 Silver to vendors
Item Level 33

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Enchant Chest - Minor Absorption
Use: Enchant a piece of chest armor so it has a 2% chance per hit of giving you 10 points of damage absorption. Cannot occur more often than once every 5 sec.
Item Level 1
FOREVER New in World of Warcraft Forever: not in Classic Era.

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Stat Iron Counterweight Enchant Chest - Minor Absorption Δ
Item Level 33 1 −32
Sell Price 5s −5s

Δ is Enchant Chest - Minor Absorption minus Iron Counterweight: green where Enchant Chest - Minor Absorption is better, red where it is worse (a lower required level is better; speed and sell price have no better side). Total Stats adds up Str, Agi, Sta, Int and Spi.

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