As many of the active players know, the Great Axe/War Hammer Meta came around when the “Into the Void” patch was released. Since then (specifically on my server) I have noticed an insane amount of Great Axe/War hammer users in open-world PVP, outpost rushes, and especially in wars. I want to know what this looks like on other servers. I use to be a mage player, but due to the massive rise in the amount of Melee DPS players on my server, I found playing mage to be a lot less fun as I am constantly going against these Melee DPS players who received a huge buff to their weapons compared to the 17 nerfs in total to Ice gauntlet/Fire staff.
Again I am only looking to see how many people play War Hammer/Great Axe compared to every other build this game has to offer.
What responses I am looking for:
Weapon build
Server name
If you have noticed an increase in the amount of Melee users (specifically Great Axe/War Hammer)
No I have not noticed an increase because it has always been Great Axe / War Hammer Meta LOL. Only time this changed was when Hatchet had the Exploit/Bug…thats when you saw everyone running either Great Axe/Hatchet or War Hammer/Hatchet. After that got fixed, they went back to Great Axe / War Hammer Meta. Some use Void, but the addition of this weapon didn’t really change the Meta.
No. Great axe has been the go-to starter weapon for everyone who went to any kind of forum/reddit/whatever and asked “wat best wepon”. Though I noticed a steady transition from GA/hatchet to GA/LS to GA/Hammer most recently. However, there is an uptick as of a week ago in the amount of muskets I’m seeing around the place.
GA/WH (only lvl 32, it just happened to be my biggest upgrades from drops so I stayed with that combo as it felt like fun … before reading all the controversy here on the forums )
EU Ishtakar (dying)
Not that I know of, I mainly solo/PvE or play the TH-game … oh wait
In all honesty, I hardly played because of downtime at moments I would be able to play, the TH-shutdown. I’ll pick it back up a bit later.
Ohonoo
I play musket rapier but was greataxe hatchet for the longest time.
GA/WH has been super popular on my server long before into the void. I think GA/hatchet is almost just as good just in a different way.
I built this specifically to deal with axe / warhammer crazies, i can now actually survive an execute if it manages to hit me, i get out of gravity with burnout, i use oblivion, scream and void sword when they get close and melt them after they have burnt that skill.
I have 580ish armour and 550 jewlery, 580 staff and was using a 515 void gaunlet at the time… aiming to get nothingness.
On difu server and it is pretty quiet and low pop so see what happens after merges.
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