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Okay, hypothetical situation:

You buy two identical long vibro axes. You get them both sliced. Onegets a 30% speed increase. The othergets a 30% damage increase. Which would you rather use?

I'm torn on this issue. The faster LVA would help get past those horrible attack mods. The more times you swing, the more likely you are to hit. On the other hand, the higher damage LVA would help with the special move HAM costs. Fewerswings to get the job donewould mean less HAM drain.

Opinions?

Depends are you soloing or grouping.
For me I like the high damage LVA when in a group. I just use berserk while a tka uses knockdown. He controls the mob I wack them to death. When soloing I prefer a good vibro lance seems less ham costs and less misses.

I will always go with speed because of how bad the accuracy on polearmsis.

I ALWAYS go with speed, but then on the other hand its all about the quality of your weapon and the master slicer that sliced it...

The slowest and fastest weapons I use:

LVA

dmg 45-380spd 4.0

RCS

dmg 40-190 spd 3.6

Mester Weapons + Master Slicing =Master Pikeman

Augustine

Ya, I am with speed. Damage is not that much of an issue if I don't hit that often.

Khrim...

I'd definitely go with speed. The way galaxies is set up, the upper range of damage never quite seems to be enough to compensate for the lack of speed. ie.) Getting one hit in at 600 doesn't really work well when your opponent can get in 5 hits between 130-200 in the same amount of time.

Those are about my thoughts also. Granted you want just the right speed so you can chain shots with no cooldown, but damage is more appealing to me right now.