Swordsman Archive

yay, so i got swordsman 0412 last night from 0311

i'm now maxed on natural speed until i go master

there's a problem though... using a damage per second calc (found at http://killyourpc.org/swg/swg_dps.php) my 2-handed curved sword is still doing more DPS than my powerhammer.

before you go crazy with "you must be using a slow powerhammer" its a 3.7 speed with around 600mx damage. my curved sword is 1.3 AS with like a 250mx damage.now i use my powerhammer when the damage type makes a big difference, but usually most things i've been killing, gurks and snorbals for herb meat and decent xp, doesn't make much difference if its blast or kinetic damage.

anyways so i'm thinking, even though the average damage per second is lower, the max damage is much higher, so i should be more efficient at killing with the hammer. i wanted to test this theory, so i went after a herd of mature snorbals with the hammer, i made sure i got in the middle of them, and started using 2-hand area 2. i timed how long it took me to kill them, each time keeping using area attack until there was only 1 left, then switching to 2-hand hit 2 to finish the last one off.

i did the same thing with the curved sword... with an exact same group of snorbals. i finished 45ish seconds faster with the sword. reason? i was attacking more often, so when i missed, it wasn't as big a deal. when i got dizzy or blind with the power hammer i'd hit half or fewer of the creatures around me, this with either weapon. so if i am attacking faster than i'm more likely to get a hit on a creature in the same amount of time, so i was more efficientwith the lower damage faster weapon.

lastly.... i took a look and realized i was starting to hit the speed cap on some of my specials with the curved sword, and not with the hammer. so i added the +10 speed with master, still not capping that much. i had to about 12 or so on top of that to completely cap the hammer

so my question is, is my hammer that bad? or is curved sword that good of a weapon? or will the scythe be my best bet?

i wanna use the hammer i just can't justify it if its not performing as well.

i spent 10k on this sword.... there's gotta be something better

Your best bet is going to be to go pick up a scythe, unless you want to invest in picking up FS Speed or some 2h Speed tapes. I never really used my Phammer till I got speed cap because of how slow they are.

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Do what I did, buy a 1.6spd 202-313dmg scythe. Makes the rest of the grind much faster.

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Only $15 a month for the game!
Why?
Because each month it's a different game.
Think of it as a Mario Party Massively Multiplayer Online First Person Role Playing Strategy Action Adventure Turn-Based type game.

gotta get that 3rd box of combat taken care of, it is top priority

gonna get me some 'nades