2H Weapons Viable?

usmcjdking

Too much of 2Hs power is vested in wrecking blow, which is one of the best spammables in the game, and one of the least used for no other fact than 2H cannot properly support wrecking blow.

Moonsorrow

ezikeo wrote: »

Moonsorrow wrote: »

Here is my SUPERFUN SMASHER build, a 2h/2h setup + "viable" damage for sure (not for Vet trial score runs though.. you can enter there with that setup and when people starts to whine about your non-meta setup, you just say the legendary: "duel me you scrub" and they are silenced)

2p Balorgh + 5p Automaton (can use Hundings depending on class/ulti choice if its not Physical damage)
+ 3p agility jewelry + Master`s 2h + Asylum 2h

Balorgh has nice synergy with Asylum 2h giving ultimates up FAST, on trash fights you can almost spam ultimates, can start using it on bosses when 50% so ultis up then fast too. Master 2h does crazy cleave damage on mobs and bosses with mob spawns. Asylum 2h Precise (for more crits on executes, obviously use 2h execute on this bar), Master`s 2h Nirnhoned. Put Cleave on this bar, obviously. You did not want lots of dots/micromanaging, but use atleast Caltrops, its a lot of damage. Put your buffs and class spammable (Surprise attack) so that you get a smooth rotation/ani cancel that works for you. Mundus: Thief (or Lover, depending on cp and group/content)

You will be surprised how fun and brutal that setup can be. Ask if need more details on the setup and if that sounds fun for you.

Note to the people perhaps saying: "2h/2h is not viable booo.." yes yes, i know, but its fun and VIABLE enough for all except vet trial score runs.

And more damage would be from: 2H/bow back bar (maelstrom bow), its actually very good build that same but using Maelstrom bow and dropping Masters 2h for it. Asylum 2h, Balorgh, Maelstrom bow = good fun times too for the bow lovers. But op wants a build without bow, so let op have the fun their own way.

I like this build, do you think using the 2H ultimate "Onslaught" with 2p Balorgh would be good? I could potentially have a 100% uptime on Balorgh buff (300 weapon & spell damage) if I manage to kill an add with Onslaught, which would refresh it.

Have not tested with Onslaught, but when thinking about it, i think it would be tricky when would have to spend time to constantly focus on trying to find target to kill so would be spending perhaps too much time out of the damaging rotation (smashing things like a Hulk on steroids). As an idea it seems good, but in pve not always possible.

But i like how you think! Things like that when work makes really fun builds that are also effective. Say in a group with mainly the meta dot builds they should be welcoming 1 x 2h smasher with them, the burst you can do on the trash fights on mobs when they start melting them is so good, Reverse Slice numbers are insane on the build so the often "annoying and boring" zergs of trash before fun bossfights go faster, Hulk SMASH!

In longer sustained fights the typical DW/Bow gets bigger numbers because of more dots and 2 enchants, but when you get things right and smooth rotation for you, you wont be *that* far from them. And if you would replace Automaton/Hundings with say War Machine like @JakobESO got on his (very fun and viable variation, nicely thought Jakob) build, you can be a true MVP for the team.

My ulti choice is Flawless Dawbreaker, because of the % wep damage you get from having the morph slotted (+5% at Rank IV) + the Fighters Guild % passive too +3%, so your weapon damage gets even more steroids for your other damage skills on that bar too, it will add some nice aoe burst for you also since its up fast.

But thats on stamsorc, with nb and especially if you go with something like War Machine you wanna use your cheap class ulti for max uptime on the Major Slayer. Your group will you for it.

Plus the thing about Balorgh is (unless they changed it, have not seen such patch note though) that you can "save" ultimate if you know soon coming a fight where you want max damage/burst start so you use the ultimate when its at 500 ultimate, it will give you 1000 weapon damage, even if the ultimate would cost say 150, so it will give bonus from ultimate spent, not the actual ulti cost. The burst damage numbers will make you lol while you fight, they are that absurdly huge. People will watch you in awe when you demolish stuff alone in seconds before they even finished buffing and placing all their dots down pretty much.

*optional tip: Use something like a baseball bat as a weapon style on Outfit, occasionally at raids write on CAPSLOCK to group chat "ME SMASH" and run to mobs before the tank starts and kill everything, toggle walk on after it and rp walk back to the group like a boss. You will be a legend.

*optional tip to optional tip: If you die horribly after some Leeroy charge, the good old "im drunk bruh" always works, your legendary status remains.

dovakiin5574

They work just fine. Maybe a 1-2k dps loss compared to dual wield. Check out Alcast's 2h builds those are a great starting point

Itacira

@ezikeo Hm, yes, I saw this set ! but I wonder if it's worth the dps loss. Hmmmm