Master Weapons Could Be Better?

Ohhgrizyyy

I've honestly never payed much attention to Masters or Maelstrom weapons cause I've never tried doing these things tbh. I just now decided to look at both and compare and honestly all the masters weapons besides the Master Sword and Master Resto seem significantly less powerful then the maelstrom weapons, I mean the Master bow seems like it's decent maybe but none of the weapons seem to be that great like the Destro staff for example. Almost nobody uses Destructive Touch? I mean am I just not giving them props or are they really not that great compared to Maelstrom?

Alpheu5

Hardly anybody uses Destructive Touch because its bonus effects have an application cooldown (knockback, root, knockdown), and the damage during that cooldown is too low for the cost of the skill by itself. With a Master Staff the ability becomes safer to use as a spammable.

Xvorg

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

I've honestly never payed much attention to Masters or Maelstrom weapons cause I've never tried doing these things tbh. I just now decided to look at both and compare and honestly all the masters weapons besides the Master Sword and Master Resto seem significantly less powerful then the maelstrom weapons, I mean the Master bow seems like it's decent maybe but none of the weapons seem to be that great like the Destro staff for example. Almost nobody uses Destructive Touch? I mean am I just not giving them props or are they really not that great compared to Maelstrom?

Master bow is great, same as master sword ona s/b char

Ohhgrizyyy

Well yea that's what I mean, Masters 1h Sword looks great, Resto looks great. Bow seems decent

IronCrystal

Except for the Resto staff (which is still BiS for trial healers), I've viewed the master weapons as more PvP oriented, especially with the Bow.

They are pretty underwhelming though compared to Maelstrom.

amasuriel

Yeah as usual I cannot tell with the master weapons if they just ran out of good ideas, or someone honestly though all the master weapons were equally good, even just comparing to other master weapons.

Maelstrom is the same way, you look at how much better the dual wield MA weapon is vs 2 hander and you wonder how it's possible they though they were equal.

Pink_Violinz

Didn't Master weapons come out first? Far before Maelstrom, if I'm not mistaken.

When these weapons were created v14 was the highest level. I can't say I remember if they were great or not, but they were certainly viable and unique at the time. Now? Thanks to power creep, Maelstrom, and the new leveling system these seem bad in comparison.

They just need to be buffed. Or their skills. Resto is fine, the bow is great, sword okay, but everything else needs more... "oomph".

Masel

Master bow and vma bow make a great combo for a Bow/Bow build

FlyLionel

Master bow is beautiful; for pvp.

idk

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

Well yea that's what I mean, Masters 1h Sword looks great, Resto looks great. Bow seems decent

Master bow is the second best bow in your head game. It buffs all damage. vMA bow being top.

2H is ok as far as 2H goes. DW is ok as well.

Considering has much easier it is to get a vDSA weapon vs vMA, I'd say the enchants are appropriate.

mr_wazzabi

Ohhgrizyyy wrote: »

I've honestly never payed much attention to Masters or Maelstrom weapons cause I've never tried doing these things tbh. I just now decided to look at both and compare and honestly all the masters weapons besides the Master Sword and Master Resto seem significantly less powerful then the maelstrom weapons, I mean the Master bow seems like it's decent maybe but none of the weapons seem to be that great like the Destro staff for example. Almost nobody uses Destructive Touch? I mean am I just not giving them props or are they really not that great compared to Maelstrom?

Maelstrom sword is garbage, master sword is awesome, especially for pvp.

cpuScientist

The daggers 2 hander and destro staves should just all work like the vma bow, and increase in power per tick. Would help 2 hander be more viable if that dot was actually stronger...

actosh

U shouldnt get weapons. Just the enchant would be awesome.
Apply it to a weapon of your choice.

The_Conquerer

master destro is garbage

Tryxus

Maybe update the weapons to strengthen the new 1st skills (the ones that have been swapped with Homestead) like Snipe, Force Shock,... and make them a bit stronger (same lvl as Maelstrom) while fixing the Maelstrom Weapons?