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I hear that it's faster, more accurate and uses the action pool instead of the health pool but how much faster and more accurate? Although I'll use a power hammer when the situation calls it, I'd prefer using the 2h curved sword more often because I'd rather use a sword, particularly a katana but not if it means I'm completely inferior to a power hammer user.

Once you hit Techniques 2, switch to a powerhammer and get either a speed slice or some meelee powerups, because the damage output far outclasses the 2h curved, although I was a big fan of it, only doing regular damage for between 100-500 it incompareable to doing a hit for 2-5k with specials, even if you have to wait a few more sec to attack, but these are just growing pains, once you hit techniques 4 you'll be doing sick damage very quickly.


Geminus Dominicus
Master Heavy Swordsman
Master Doctor

PS. 2h curved does kinetic, as opposed to the blast damage done by the powerhammer, but other than that it hits the HAM pools same as the other weapons. A for the accuracy, 58-250, and 145-500 (AVG) you make the call.

Thanks for your help. /groan. We need more swords.

Oh, and forget about the accuracy once you get to Finesse 4 and Master, +120 accuracy... or something like that...


Geminus Dominicus
Master Heavy Swordsman
Master Doctor

my 2 handed sword is at 2.6 speed and does 76-302 with a damage slice. it has +8 accuracy modifiers throughout the ranges.

my power hammer has5.5 speed and 155-530 damage with a damage slice. it has -31 accuracy modifiers throughout the ranges.

at master swordsman i'd recommend you use the cleaver more than the 2 handed sword. speed will be capped and you have less ham cost as well as more minimum and maybe even maximum damage.

Your hammer sucks my friend........

A normal hammer sliced in dmg, does about 600max. and 5.4 == 4.8 with Power up.

Thats a hammer, if you use that hammer,....you must have seenthat with the sword you kill faster and better,have you ?

Always There.....

i use two hammers, one is speed sliced to 3.9, and the other is damage sliced up to 598 or something like that, i switch between the two when the time calls for it, i also use a cleaver, as the curved sword is usless for me because being a trandoshan my action pools max out at 450 stamina, and 400 quickness, so i just kill myself in a matter of seconds with a curved sword.

Once you get to a certain point the speed sliced hammer won't matter...at Master swordsman all your weapons are going to be capped at 1s. So, if you have a 4s hammer and a 3s hammer you are still going to be hitting at 1s (when you factor in the skill modifiers you get for speed when you go up the boxes.)

SWG caps all speed at 1s so you can't hit faster than that no matter what kind of weapon you have.

BTW, here is a link to a SWG weapon evaluator. Just plug your weapon stats and your speed skill (i.e. 2h Melee Speed) and it will tell you the overall "power" of that weapon.

For example, my Power Hammer is speed sliced at 3.9s...but when I put in my 2h Melee Speed (70) you see that the effectivespeed is 1.2s... at a 2h Melee Speed of 75 that drops to 1s (thereby hitting the cap).

Use this to compare your sword and your hammer. This will tell you which one is better suited for your current skill level. I can tell you that my hammer has always rated better than the best sword out there.

Give it a try!

http://rothwellhome.org/SWGWeaponEvaluator.htm

i use both when needed and the cleaver as well. i hit a 1k-1.5k head hit 3 with the curved and a 1.5k-4k head hit 3 with the power hammer.

The 2h curve and powerhammer have almost same dps (dmg per second) and outshine the cleaver.
Even at master, sure you will speed cap your weapons.. on regular swings, but on specials not a chance, unless you have a speed sliced 2h curve, but for hammers and cleavers no.

no

2 hand curves are horrible

1. low min damage (doesn't even break 100)

2. high high action cost for low low damage

3. lesser wound chance = lower bleeds

yes they are faster but it still takes an hour to kill something - meanwhile your action is gone.

i hate 2 hand curves.

cleavers are far superior with higher min damage/ higher max damage.

speed is never an issue for somebody who works up the trees as all professions have speed mods.

master heavy swordsman do not cap at one

our speed mod is 75 and master

with master brawler it is 80

if you want to cap at one you have to get around 90 or 100.

or get skill tapes like i have

a damage sliced hammer with 5.4 speed will not hit every second

curves/cleavers/spd sliced hammers will.

i love my hammer though!