Why offhand axe is bad at everything.

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Posted by: corin.1298

corin.1298

First off, compare to other offhands.

No defensive capabilitys. Every other offhand has some kind of defense. Sword has a block. Shield has stun and block. Mace has knockdown. Warhorn has speed impairing effect removal with swiftness, and aoe weakness and vigor.

This means the only niche offhand axe has is better offensive tools.

Except both abilitys on offhand axe are worst than every other offhand that has a defensive ability. Impale(sword) is better than 4 and 5 on offhand axe combined. Mace has vulneribility, yielding more dps than both axe abilitys in pve. Warhorn abilitys may not have any offensive capabilitys, but they are clearly better defensive than offhand axes offenses. Shields stun is even better than offhand axes abilitys.

This means one thing. Offhand axe is useless at everything. The only 2 things I can see usefull with offhand axe, is being able to dodge while hitting targets, and hitting 5 targets.

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Posted by: hendo.1940

hendo.1940

Off hand axe equals fury equals dropping FGJ for another DPS utility.

Use it for easy champions like risen giants.

Rezardi – [DnT]
Game over, yo.

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Posted by: Amir.1570

Amir.1570

Could do Defiant Stance and heal off of retal in PvP. But that’s legitimately niche, off-hand Mace is better in EVERY WAY. That’s if you already have a shield.

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Posted by: runeblade.7514

runeblade.7514

Off-hand axe shouldn’t have to have defensive capabilities. I like that it is offense only weapon. The problem is, does the offense make up for the lack of defense?

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Posted by: corin.1298

corin.1298

Off-hand axe shouldn’t have to have defensive capabilities. I like that it is offense only weapon. The problem is, does the offense make up for the lack of defense?

The point wasnt that offhand axe needs defensive capabilitys. The point was that offhand swords 1 ability (impale) exceeds both axe abilitys; and that’s not including the fact sword also has a block.

And to your question. No, it doesn’t. It’s almost useless. For something that has no defensive capabilitys, you would think it’s offensive abilitys with a power build would be pretty strong.

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Posted by: Warlord.9074

Warlord.9074

off hand axe is bad because anet says so. do whatever you want but know in the back of your mind it sucks and anet doesn’t care.

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Posted by: hellsmachine.4085

hellsmachine.4085

Mace offhand has a block? Must be invisble for me… Offhand axe just needs a damage buff to axe 5 so it is higher than axe 1, maybe increase the AoE aswell. Fixed.

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Posted by: runeblade.7514

runeblade.7514

Off-hand axe shouldn’t have to have defensive capabilities. I like that it is offense only weapon. The problem is, does the offense make up for the lack of defense?

The point wasnt that offhand axe needs defensive capabilitys. The point was that offhand swords 1 ability (impale) exceeds both axe abilitys; and that’s not including the fact sword also has a block.

And to your question. No, it doesn’t. It’s almost useless. For something that has no defensive capabilitys, you would think it’s offensive abilitys with a power build would be pretty strong.

Then you shouldn’t have pointed it out that off-hand axe’s weakness is no defensive capabilities.

You should make your point clear.

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Posted by: Caedmon.6798

Caedmon.6798

Its kinda obvious that shield has a block,being a defensive weapon and all.Mace offhand does not have a block btw,youre mistaking it with mace mainhand,the offhand has vulnerability and a knockdown wave.Axes should not have any defensive capabilities since their offensive weapons and should stay that way.

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Posted by: corin.1298

corin.1298

My mistake guys, I meant to type knockdown. I know it doesn’t have a block. Edited original post. Also, sorry for not being clear. My point is axe’s offhand offensive abilitys should be stronger than another weapons offensive abilitys, when the second weapon has an offensive and defensive ability.

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Posted by: corin.1298

corin.1298

Its kinda obvious that shield has a block,being a defensive weapon and all.Mace offhand does not have a block btw,youre mistaking it with mace mainhand,the offhand has vulnerability and a knockdown wave.Axes should not have any defensive capabilities since their offensive weapons and should stay that way.

My point of comparing shield and axe, is that the stun from shield(although situational) yields better offensives, vs the axe. (being able to land eviscerate, interupting a heal, etc) The axe should simply have something that makes up for not having what these other offhands have.