It would depend on your play style. Personally spear is by far my favorite melee weapon.
I usually run sweep, javelin, vault kick, in PVP.
The javelin and vault kick perks also help. Sweep has one to but it’s pretty underwhelming.
Pairs beautifully with a bow. Tear them up at range and if they want to get in close it’s CC city
For PvP: Bow + Rapier is much better in my opinion. You’re basicly impossible to kill unless you’re getting ganked or heavily out of position.
For PvE: Bow + Spear is capable of giving damage boost for the entire team. But for solo PvE I still prefer Rapier, even tho Spear also decent choice.
Rofl, I joined opr in my strength gear with a green GS580 bow and got 5 kills - 2 deaths… Bow is lvl 11 or 12 btw… Yeah takes true skill to snipe haha
you what? Coup de grace is great, it’s like a free unblockable hit that does 125% damage.
you just have no clue. That is not what he means at all. it doesnt feel viable anymore. but sit on your high horse and spew your same one liners that remain unhelpful.
There was probably a reason why it had such a lunge… It was probably discovered during testing it had to have that to hit something since animation is so slow… and then AGS probably forgot about it… Now it cant hit shit unless you stand in the middle and do those spinning attacks…
If bow gets nerfd no one will play it. The balance from aiming, arrow drop, non hit scan and tiny projectile pay off for its burst damage. Also has very long cds. Cant see what they will change to make it relevant in wars.
Sounds exactly like whats hes saying to me. Ga people just crying as they cant run around left click spamming and teleporting to people. I see many good gaxe/hatchet players on my server. They do fine.
ppl still play this game?
lmao
Bring back GA lunge but also add back stamina cost for basic attacking w melee or tie it to a secondary resource pool similar to mana for casters.
Now make stamina tied to both Dodging and sprinting and revert the movement combat change made sometime b/w Mar-May of this year.
Pretty sure this would allow melee to hit targets more consistently w homing assist but limit the left click spam by tying it to a specific resource that requires management.
no, something is fundementally broken. I am not talking about damage or being OP. you have no clue.
if u say so
Not true.
Go look at all the void gauntlet threads.
Rapier for the best DPS.
Spear for damage and crowd control. I love it when mobs die without even touching me. 
I think first video of someone solo a Myrk portal will be Lifestaff/Voidgauntlet 
While I agree with the nerfs. I feel like they should have actually fixed the games desync and geodata before nerfing. Now not just great axe, but melee in general is quite terrible.
I enjoy your comment though, was quite funny. What Playing A MELEE In NEW WORLD Is Really Like.... - YouTube
@Waylander
I was talking about the bleeding sweep perk. Not sweep itself, sweep itself is excellent.
Coup de grace is the perk to sweep!
Axe still poops on people if played right. Hope you enjoy Overwatch.