Swordsman Archive

For masters, damage all the way. For novices, probably speed. Nevertheless, I'd do damage anyway and let the slicers do speed if people really need it.

The closer you get to Master the more you want damage since your Swordsman abilities take care of the speed aspect for you. I would use that as a general rule and target my audience appropriately.

Turns out it was a fluke to see such wildly varying stats, I knew it wasn't SUPPOSED to work like that but I thought I was on to a trick The schematic I ended up coming up with was pretty decent I think, here's full stats to give you all an idea what to expect from the new power hammers

132-458, spd 5.5, wound 31.5%, range -28/-28/-28, HAM 116/37/25

of course expect variance with materials available on different servers

Reposting this from my server board as it got little attention there and I am curious how people feel about this. Hopefully Swordsmen from my own server will feel the same as people here

Ihad a little time to play with the new cores for power hammers today on my lunch break and I am really liking the results so far (and plan to whip up a good hammer schematic tonight after work). My question to you is this ... would you be willing to trade off some speed for a harder hitting hammer? Or is speed king with such a slow weapon? I've posted 2 examples I whipped up real quick below to illustrate the kind of difference I am talking about.

#1 128-423 spd 5.6

#2 123-452 spd 6.4

When I get a factory run up it will be better than either of these, I'm just trying to get a feel what to shoot for on this and wanted an example, let me know thanks (personally I'm a fan of the big huge damage and am leaning that way already but wanted to hear from people who actually USE them to see if I was way off base here )

We are getting quite a few speed bonuses on our way up to mastering, so i would vote for damage.

As i said in the other post:

We are glad about any kind of feedback regarding the changes we can get from you weaponsmiths out there.

Thanks

The power hammer I use is a 6.0 speed monster. It's top end is in the 600s base (obviously sliced for damage, that might also be with a max damage powerup on it), I'll get you the full specs when I get home tonight.

I DEFINATELY prefer damage over speed for the power hammer because all I use the weapon for is bleeds (where up front damage is more important), and not as my usual fighting weapon (which is a curved 2h).

It will be interesting to see if people are able to make even nastier hammers than the one I currently use for the damage end of things.

-Shi

Thanks for the thoughts guys, and Shiunless you got that hammer today I can almost guarantee you will be able to get one with higher damage now that cores can be put in