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Best 2H Class In Update 22
I want to make a 2H solo character for overland questing and pug dungeons. My first character was a MagDK, which I love but also struggle with feeling very squish squish a lot of the time. Which class do you think will complement and benefit from using a 2H weapon the most?
1) Sorc: seems a bit boring just switching on their buffs and using weapon skills, but their passives look good. The class doesn't offer a stamina spam skill, so I'd be stuck with WB or Crushing Weapon.
2) Warden: interesting flavor and lots of good stam morphs and sustain options. Would Cutting Dive work well as a spammable?
3) Necro: I'm still trying to get my head around the class, but it has a lot of stam morphs and defensive/heal options that seem strong.
4) Templar: Biting jabs, PoTL, and some of their passives look good, but I already have a MagPlar so I would prefer a different class unless everyone thinks they just work super great for 2h Stam dps.
So, hit me with your best thoughts.
1) Sorc: seems a bit boring just switching on their buffs and using weapon skills, but their passives look good. The class doesn't offer a stamina spam skill, so I'd be stuck with WB or Crushing Weapon.
2) Warden: interesting flavor and lots of good stam morphs and sustain options. Would Cutting Dive work well as a spammable?
3) Necro: I'm still trying to get my head around the class, but it has a lot of stam morphs and defensive/heal options that seem strong.
4) Templar: Biting jabs, PoTL, and some of their passives look good, but I already have a MagPlar so I would prefer a different class unless everyone thinks they just work super great for 2h Stam dps.
So, hit me with your best thoughts.
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ShadowKyuubi✭✭✭✭I have a Stamsorc 2h that does really well. Yes, you would most likely be relying on weapon abilities as your damage, that said Wrecking Blow and Executioner are good, despite WB being a channel, it hits really hard. Hurricane is a very powerful ability and if you slot crit surge, you have really good survivability. So in terms of Solo content, it is a very good class. Plus you can be like me and hope that pets will one day scale with max resource and not max magicka, then you can start having a Clannfear companion.1
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ShadowKyuubi wrote: »Plus you can be like me and hope that pets will one day scale with max resource and not max magicka, then you can start having a Clannfear companion.
Isn't that the dream. I keep hoping that in one of their larger updates they will add new morphs or alter existing skills to open up more options for stam builds to actually use class skills.
The more I think about it the more I think I'm deciding between StamSorc and StamDen. Still not sure where I land between them. It might just come down to a flavor choice in the end.
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Grianasteri✭✭✭✭✭
✭VeritasWaits wrote: »I want to make a 2H solo character for overland questing and pug dungeons. My first character was a MagDK, which I love but also struggle with feeling very squish squish a lot of the time. Which class do you think will complement and benefit from using a 2H weapon the most?
1) Sorc: seems a bit boring just switching on their buffs and using weapon skills, but their passives look good. The class doesn't offer a stamina spam skill, so I'd be stuck with WB or Crushing Weapon.
2) Warden: interesting flavor and lots of good stam morphs and sustain options. Would Cutting Dive work well as a spammable?
3) Necro: I'm still trying to get my head around the class, but it has a lot of stam morphs and defensive/heal options that seem strong.
4) Templar: Biting jabs, PoTL, and some of their passives look good, but I already have a MagPlar so I would prefer a different class unless everyone thinks they just work super great for 2h Stam dps.
So, hit me with your best thoughts.
I have a stamsorc 2H character. Although fairly new to reach lvl50, and still not in his final intended gear, he is already my joint highest DPS character and I have found him very enjoyable to play. Survivability is decent due to whirlwind, surge skills and some of the 2H skills also very much help keep you alive.
Just be aware that if you play with damage shields, then options are limited. You wont have high max magica to scale a good magica shield and your only stam option will be from the Undaunted, but that scales off your health, which as a stam dps will also not be great.
There are a number of ways to mitigate this however, from your CP passives and from the 2H skill line and indeed if you wished, from the psijic skill line.0 -
Firstmep✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭I have been playing more and more 2h and bow on my stamplar since the major expedition nerf, and the buff the to draining shot.
Senche bow backbar, and then whatever sets you want to build with it, its fairly mobile, with high major exp uptime, poison injection is great, so is executioner.
Definetly more single target focused than dw with dawny and spin to win, but still nice.0 -
Davadin✭✭✭✭✭
✭change ur magDK to stamDK - the ultimate weapon-class. (due to lack of class-specific skills)August Palatine Davadin Bloodstrake - Nord Dragon Knight - PC NA - Gray Host
Greymoor 6.0.7 PvP : Medium 2H/SnB The Destroyer
Dragonhold 5.2.11 PvE : Medium DW/2H The Blood Furnace
March 2021 (too lazy to add CP) PvP: Medium DW/Bow The Stabber0 -
WrathOfInnos✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭✭Nightblade works well with 2h. They have a class spammable with Surprise Attack. And Rally is really nice on stamblade when you’re not using Weapon Power potions. Nightblade passives also help with Weapon Crit, which 2h builds are lacking since there are no 2h dagger equivalents.0 -
Ragnarock41✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭✭✭for solo PvE anything works but stamsorc and stamden excel at using 2H in my opinion. stamDK just feels more natural with a dual wield/bow setup from my experience. And stamplar? only if you like jabs. In the end each class has a few stam morphs and have passives that work in different ways. Its up to you really.Edited by Ragnarock41 on April 28, 2019 6:16PM1 -
Kewpie✭I had only magicka chars except NB before that year. So I tried to made my magsorc to stamsorc. And changed again because as for me sorc is not so funny as stamina. Most of the "specific" class abilities are not usefull because they havent stam morph or costs too much magicka to use often. But I found that my warden is much more funnier in stam build rather magwarden (that is just so boring except you wanna do some healing/supporting stuff)
So I'll suggest warden for better sustain and more build opportunities
But the best is NB, only if you like more tricky and challenging gameplay and of course if you would like to use stealth
Also I had magdk and stamdk, magplar and stamplar. And can say Magdk is much funnier dps that stamdk(that is best for tanking and good for it)
Still not played much on stamplar that have actually bloodmoon+undaunted unweaver+molag kena build.0 -
Insco851✭✭✭✭✭
✭Stamsorc will still be the best 2H class imo.
Anytime you can couple minor expedition with major... you can land all those dizzy’s with ease...
Be strifing in front of the running target like nah fam you gonna catch these hands...Edited by Insco851 on April 29, 2019 12:34AM0 -
GeorgeBlack✭✭✭✭✭
✭✭Stamsorc will still be the best 2H class imo.
Anytime you can couple minor expedition with major... you can land all those dizzy’s with ease...
Be strifing in front of the running target like nah fam you gonna catch these hands...
What hands?
All you do is run around scared letting hurricane deal aoe dmg while zerg riding. A steelnado here and there and a dawnbreaker.
And streak for when it gets too much.0
