PVP: 2H Maul or 2H Battleaxe?

Skoomah · May 2020

What do you prefer and why?

notyuu · May 2020

Maul (20% Penetration)

It's not really much of a question when you consider the following

Getting the bleed to proc is hard due to decent players not sitting still long enough to proc it reliably
The bleed damage is small thus easily negated
Bleed damage on the whole no longer bypasses resistance
Most people in PvP are tanky AF
The bleed can be easily purged
The maul penetration can't be purged
The maul penetration applies to every physical attack you launch
The maul penetration is % based meaning it works good vs tanky builds and non tank builds alike

CMDR_Un1k0rn · May 2020

Maul (20% Penetration)

It just works.

And it works all the time, no conditions.

IMO, it's Maul>Sword>Axe.

Sword with lvl 4 Onslaught is superior for the duration of the armour negate, but a Maul is far more versatile thanks to the fact that a Maul user always has less armour to deal with over Sword/Axe users.

As there is no difference in attack speed unlike the single-player games, a Maul basically has no real drawbacks.

As highlighted above, an Axe has a lot of drawbacks in PvP. I would definitely use it in PvE though.

Rake · May 2020

Maul (20% Penetration)

what bleed
you face tanks and players with purge

Mortiis13 · May 2020

I like axe in non cp, it's bleed negate a hot most players use. But I want to try maul with my stamcro because he lacks major fracture.
Why is sword less viable?

Deathlord92 · May 2020

The bleed is easily out healed or purge while penetration is always there and very good against tanks personally though I noticed it wasn’t there I prefer 2 h swords out of the 2 🙂

DukeDiewalker · May 2020

Maul (20% Penetration)

Who really cares? With how buggy and broken targetting with both dizzy swing and especially execute (without blockcancelling) is, nothing really matters in this game anymore

technohic · May 2020

Maul (20% Penetration)

Mortiis13 wrote: »

I like axe in non cp, it's bleed negate a hot most players use. But I want to try maul with my stamcro because he lacks major fracture.
Why is sword less viable?

Depends on your targets armor. It takes it to be less than 19-20k or so armor for Sword damage boost to break even with mace 20% armor reduction. If you are penetrating down to that much, I might consider it but then I think people have done match that the DOT from axe still does more at that point.

MartiniDaniels · May 2020

Maul (20% Penetration)

NMA Maul - PVP weapon of the year!

Sarousse · May 2020

Maul (20% Penetration)

Bleedings were totally destroyed last patch, no point in playing axes.

They should just remove the bleeding from axes, and replace it with a crit damage multiplier.

Bradyfjord · May 2020

Maul (20% Penetration)

Imo the bleed was viable, but not really ever optimal. Then they nerfed dots.

Heimpai · May 2020

Maul (20% Penetration)

Penetration all the way

Banana · May 2020

I like a sword

Irfind · May 2020

Maul (20% Penetration)

Maul with sword skin

Tryxus · May 2020

Battleaxe (Bleed)

finehair · May 2020

Maul (20% Penetration)

axes are cool and all, but unless you are going for a heavy dot build i would prefer maul or greatsword. Its bleed damage is so low compared to what you can get from mauls' penetration and greatswords' increased damage in my opinion.
I usually use greatsword+onslaught but %99 of the time have an axe style on outfits.

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