(edited by corin.1298)
Why offhand axe is bad at everything.
Off hand axe equals fury equals dropping FGJ for another DPS utility.
Use it for easy champions like risen giants.
Game over, yo.
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.
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?
4x Necromancer, 3x Mesmer, 4x Guardian, 4x Thief, 4 Revenant
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.
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.
warrior and we’re the best class” Eugene
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.
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.
4x Necromancer, 3x Mesmer, 4x Guardian, 4x Thief, 4 Revenant
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 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.
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.