2H - Rally Question

Archmage1

Does rally only work with 2H? Or can I switch to another weapon, say DW, and still retain the buff?

Iyas

Right you can switch and it still works.

AtmaDarkwolf

can you slap this on a bar without a 2h equipped(IE: put it on a S&B or DW bar and activate it WITHOUT a 2h equipped) and does it benefit you(I've searched google and forums and all info is all over the place, as in some say it cannot be used without 2h, some say it CAN be used but has no effect, some say heals apply but boost does not, some say it goes away if u switch weapons regardless of whats on what bar, some say it has no effect 'until' u switch to a 2h bar, etc etc.)

A little clear info would have been great... tool-tips ingame suck :P

arowz

You can only use it when you have a 2h out. It will be greyed out and unable to use if you put it on a bar while you are holding anything but a 2h. You can use it while you have a 2h out and then switch weapons to a non-2h and keep the buff. I use 2h on one bar, use rally, then switch to my dual wield bar. The buff persists. You can check by looking at your character sheet. Your weapon damage will keep the 20% buff and give you 20% more weapon damage based on whatever weapon you have out.

To be even more specific, my weapon damage is 2717 while dual wielding. When I use rally while holding a 2h, then switch to my dual wield bar, my weapon damage become 3,100 or so. Note that the 2717 contains percentage booster buffs already from passives such as Dawnbreaker's 8% boost. The 20% buff only buffs up the un-percentage boosted portion of your weapon damage. So, if you were getting 15% weapon damage boost before rally, rally would make that 15% into 35%. It wouldn't give you 20% more damage based on the already percentage boosted weapon damage.

Bloodgharm

Like other weapon skills, you can only activate it if you have a 2h weapon equipped. I'm not sure if the buff or heal keeps going if you swap to another weapon though. I've heard that the hot will still tick, but the buff goes away and vice versa...there really is no video showing the results of this scenario to know for certain.

Thecapeo

It's exactly as arowz said. The buff and healing persist if you switch weapons but you have to have 2-H equipped to activate it. At least on PS4.

GreenSoup2HoT

Rally should only effect 2h abilities. It's annoying that you pretty much have to use Rally for a source of major brutality let alone healing on some classes.

Vigor assault level 5 next patch big woop. I doubt many will even consider using flying blade for major brutality aswell. These change's hardly effect the fact you will still use Rally because it's so superior.

We need more source's of major brutality.

Stannum

GreenSoup2HoT wrote: »

Rally should only effect 2h abilities. It's annoying that you pretty much have to use Rally for a source of major brutality let alone healing on some classes.

That worked so before 1.6. When buffs were not unificated. Now there is no weapon buff for 2H only. We have major Brutality that effects weapon dmg in general.
Before 1.6 Rally was great for Stamina Sorcs. They had 2 independent weapon buffs (rally and critical surge) which also gave healing.