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Dual wield heavy noodle attacks are still a thing.

Arcanasx
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Just thought I'd bring it up. Without empower and off balance involved, there's this weird standard how every other weapon type has its fully charged heavy attack easily dealing anywhere from 50% to more than double the damage compared to its light attack. And then there's the dual wield heavy noodle attack where sometimes, depending on overall stats, literally does less damage than a light attack.

Comparing melee weapons, a SnB heavy attack takes about 10% longer to charge yet does around 25% more damage compared to a DW heavy attack. A two handed heavy attack takes about 13% longer to charge and does more than 50% damage (before follow up) compared to DW heavies. Basically, the stat scaling for DW heavy attack damage is very bad and underpowered compared to that of other weapon types. It appears as if it's missing more than a third of the overall damage it should have.

Dual wield heavy attacks have clearly been underperforming for years now, and it might be time to update its base damage to a more reasonable and comparable level to that of the other melee heavy attacks. Considering that weapon passives will be involved, you'd expect that DW heavies should at least be doing as much, but probably more damage than SnB heavies.
  • Necrotech_Master
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    i think part of the issue from what i seen, is that the dmg on a dual wield attack is split between the 2 weapon hits

    that means its dmg is effectively getting double dosed on any kind of dmg reductions/mitigations that the enemies have (as the 2 separate hits are computed independently)

    this inadvertently would make its heavy attack potential equal or weaker than a light attack, as the light attack is only getting mitigation applied once, instead of twice
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  • Arcanasx
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    That doesn't matter. Lightning heavy attacks are divided between 3 separate damage sources and are easily doing 150% or more total damage than its light attacks without any empower or off balanced involved, and it isn't being mitigated 3 times as much. @Necrotech_Master
    Edited by Arcanasx on 29 April 2026 03:06
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