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I have a question. Why the utimate weapon (up to now) is a hammer but not a 2hands sword?

At the very beginning, I planned to be a fencer as a sub-tank in my group. My friend told me Swordsmen is the most powerful melee profession, so I changed my mind and start my road to swordsmen. In my imagination, 2hands sword is a long, wide, heavy but powerful weapon. Except it's surperior power, it also provides some kind of defence when you use it as a shield to block the attack from enemies. So I was really exciting when I step on the road. But I found my first weapon is an AXE... what? AXE???? It's because our galaxies lack of steel so the weaponsmith can only make an AXE for a 2hands SWORDSMEN? How and why SOE design this?

I played for a month, when I master my basic 2hands skill, I was still holding an AXE (later get a 2HANDS AXE). I heard about a 2hands curved sword, and I tried my best to get one from a weaponsmith (I think it's much easiler to buy one now). After I became a novice swordsmen, I check the skill tree and found, I can only get ONE "hammer certification". Wo! It confused me, am I a 2hands swordsmen or 2hands HAMMERMAN? Or call me 2hands AXEMEN????

Well, I have read the posts here and I know you guys are "planning" to add more 2hands sword in the game. It's great, and thanks. But I really want to tell SOE, please, please add at least one 2hands sword as the utimate weapon for us. I don't hate hammer, but I love to use sword.

Next is the action aspect. Maybe all of you will find, TKA's attack action is really COOL!! Can I suggest SOE to improve the 2hands attack action, like the style of Soul Calibur (a cool light circle appear when we sweep at the mob)? Many of my friends change to be a TKA because he's really cool.

Thanks for reading. Recently I experienced serious crash in game, especially when I start act in combat, and find myself being killed after re-login. It's really frustrated, but I carry on my road to master swordsmen. See you all tough guys!

Cloris Fanel

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The Power Hamer deals Blast damage and is Armor Piercing 2. The 2HCS is Armor Piercing 0 and deals plain kinetic damage.

The PH does insane damage against mobs that are vulnerable to Blast damage...hence, it's a niche weapon.

Against every other mob, the 2HCS will deal more damage. Hence, you will use your 2HCS about 80% of your lifetime, while you can whip out your special, niche weapon, the Power Hammer, to crack mobs with the Blast vulnerability.

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The Power Hammer is NOT the ultimate weapon for a Swordsman. It's a niche weapon, as I said in my post. It's the same for all the other professions....

For a Pikeman, the Long Vibro Axe is Armor PIercing 2 and deals massive amounts of Kinetic damage. The Vibro Lance, on the other hand, deals moderate amounts of damage, is Armor Piercing 1, BUT deals Electric damage. So, obviously, it's a weapon you'd whip out to kill mobs that were vulnerable to Electricity.

For a Fencer, the Stun Baton is AP 0, deals pitiful damage, but deals Stun Damage. The Ryyk Blade does INSANE damage (it's the most powerful weapon craftable, with advanced parts). However, against mobs with really tough armor, the Stun Baton can burn right through the armor and attack for full damage, at a lower HAM cost.

So, the PH is NOT our signature weapon...it's just another weapon we can use for certain situations.

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Actually I'm pretty sure that 2HCS is AP2 and not AP0, hence IT would be the best, not the PH.