Question from a new person.
Hello as you can tell from the subject I am very new to this game and I’ve played with the classes and so far I really enjoy my warrior. I do have just a few questions though because I’ve looked around the forums and haven’t found any answers too them, though it could be due to my laziness habit, so one of the first questions I have is 1.) I’ve seen a lot of people swear by their 2H sword, but I got to say I love my hammer is there any big difference? 2.) As far as traits go is it better to start in strength or arms? 3.) Also I heard wielding 2 swords was some of the better sustained dps is that true? Because I do love my axes.
Any help with these would be great. Thank you in advance.
The greatsword has higher damage than the hammer. The hammer’s purpose is control, things like knockdowns, knockbacks and stun. In PvE it has limited use due to champions and bosses gaining defiant stacks that make them immune to control. In the open world it can be used well as a secondary to a higher damaging weapon such as the GS or axe mainhand.
Axe’s autoattack does a huge amount of damage wth the benefit of not being rooted in place like with the greatsword’s hundred blades. I’ve found good use of the axe with a mace in the off-hand, you get 8 stacks of vulnerability on the enemy (axe2 and mace 4), with a knockdown (mace5) and cripple (axe3). The burst from axe (F1) also does a nice amount of damage.
As for traits at low levels (20-60) having 10 points in arms for Deep Strike is huge. It gives 40 precision per unused signet. At level 20 if you’ve got all your utilities and your heal as signets your crit chance will be ~95%. Problem is it gradually gets worse due to the same amount of precision giving you less crit chance each level you are.
I don’t really use swords much though so i can’t really comment on the dps.
Awesome thanks for replying to my post.