What Weapon Mods do people use if not Zealous or Vampiric?

Aside from Zealous and Vampiric, the only other mod worth having is an elemental hilt. Warriors, in PvP at least not sure about PvE, will have a higher physical defense so you'll want to be dealing elemental damage to them instead. Whether or not it deals more than the 3 health you would steal from vampiric... I'm not sure. It would make sense since most warriors use Gladiator's Armour that you'd be striking against 80 instead of 100, surely 20 AL is more than 3 health steal. i would venture to disagree partly with this. elemental hilts do have their uses, but it's more situational. you have to keep in mind that rangers and elementalists usually have extra armor against elemental damage. so, you'll have to remember to switch out to a different weapon when going against them.

also, at least as a hammer user, i believe that a 10% furious haft is also a good choice. it's not for the damage, but for the chance to knock someone down faster. if damage is your main focus, then there will be better choices. however, if your knockdown chain is what's important, being able to land that faster will be a lot more useful.

Problem with vampiric is the health degen With multiple wpn slots this should never be a problem. If you have a 3:1 vamp mod then you gain 3 health every time you hit. There are fractions posted but for simple math I will slow down a W sword/axe swing to once every 2 seconds. Now our health degen -1 every second. So with those poorly altered (not in our benifit) calculations you still gain 1 point of health every two seconds when fighting.

{the sword swing is a little faster and the degen is a little slower so our health gain is actually more}

When not fighting change to something without a vamp mod. Not to mention you get extra damage from the vamp mod making you kills faster.

With multiple wpn slots this should never be a problem. If you have a 3:1 vamp mod then you gain 3 health every time you hit. There are fractions posted but for simple math I will slow down a W sword/axe swing to once every 2 seconds. Now our health degen -1 every second. So with those poorly altered (not in our benifit) calculations you still gain 1 point of health every two seconds when fighting.

{the sword swing is a little faster and the degen is a little slower so our health gain is actually more}

When not fighting change to something without a vamp mod. Not to mention you get extra damage from the vamp mod making you kills faster. Actually, as I understand it, -1 pip is actually effective -2 per second. So your net gain is slightly above zero, but you're doing +3 damage to your attackee (it's a word now) and more if you use a faster hit stance.

i say icy mod.

combine it with spinal shivers and woooooh good bye casters ...If you are a necro second profession.

i would venture to disagree partly with this. elemental hilts do have their uses, but it's more situational. you have to keep in mind that rangers and elementalists usually have extra armor against elemental damage. so, you'll have to remember to switch out to a different weapon when going against them. Elementalists have 75 Armor vs. Elemental, assuming they are the same element you picked
Rangers have 100 unsituational as druids, since thats the popular one, 115 if they have elemental armor which is rare
Fighting Elementalists isnt bad because of the chance that they don't have the same elemental armor as your weapon and even if its right, only 75 armor
Fighting Rangers would be like fighting a warrior with physical, not too bad either
It pretty much evens out, would you rather specialize against rangers or warriors, i would say warrior because others will have more trouble taking out the high armored warrior.
But of course you can bring 2 weapons.