Thats the saddest part of the bruiser setting. They can go only 300STR and have more damage than any glasscannon DEX player.
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Don’t forget their AA does AOE damage too
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And with their grit your spear CC is useless
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GA users try to claim otherwise.
Besides an obvious skill or gear gap, the GA should lose to every other melee weapon in a 1v1. It shouldn’t even be close. If this is not the case, why do other melee weapons exist?
People also forget that Rapier was meant to be an attack weapon, meaning that anyone playing it should’ve been able to have equal chances against a player using GA.
Just imagine it hahaha
They do, but it’s because of the GA’s emphasis on aoe damage and cc that you see it so commonly used. This makes it good for wars and group pvp in general. All other melee weapons besides the hammer lack AOE and oh look at that, GA/WH is the most common combination of weapons in new world. Weird.
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GA players still beat other melee builds routinely. It shouldn’t even be close. The damage per swing is too high for the GA. It can burst +8k damage in a few seconds to light armor players. In terms of single target damage, the great axe should be doing like 1/2 the damage per second every other melee weapon does because, like you said, it has AoE damage and the other weapons do not. It doesn’t make sense for the only AoE weapons to hit as hard or harder than the single target melee weapons. This not a controversial point of view. This is just normal balancing in any video game. Single target damage is high and AoE damage is low.
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Void gauntlet, musket + rapier. Rapier counter everything and grants u immune to everything + stun enemy.
Single target damage IS higher than GA and WH. If you put a med or heavy wh and a light sns spear on fort dummies, the sns/spear would be doing loads more dmg. It only seems like GA WH does more because of heavy armor, masteries for dmg resistance, 300 str grit, and cc.
In terms of leaderboards for war/opr, you would see more WH/GA up top than other melee’s because if the air dmg and the way that dmg is weighted for points. AOE DPS will should be doing more total damage than single target dps.
I will say that GA/WH + heavy is synergistic to the point where it’s clear that someone (head dev) had a bias.
It does. This guy just sucks at doing spear.
The problem is many things about spear is conditional, you need to hit a crit on your skewer to be any revelant on damage and gain empower, on the other side , you only need to LMB to gain grit and do insane dmg as Wh/GA. Also don’t forget that GA / WH still have 20% dmg reduction , they never introduces the nerf going 20-12
Maybe, but the standard Grav well and a few spins kills me in a second.
At least spear users have to actually aim.
I’ve been killed by a spear at most 10 times, lost count for GA.
GA, cant combat Spear no way. Spear has to much interrupt. Grit is pointless does not prevent stun type conditions only stagger.
That’s why you’ve got to be good at movement. Mobility is your frien. Stuns are your frien.
Yes GA can do it thats why light armor is not desicated to play in close combat dont blame weapon but blame your set and total lack of defense and damage reduction. I have never been able to generate 8k dps in few second to another GA user in heavy ir medium set. The more dps u get the more squishy u become you should avoid close combat if u run in light armor with less than 150 const.
really? not Kick, sundering jav, perforate? you’ll get max rend off that combo
Buy harder gear, play 300 dex 200 const, buy amulet BIS with Puricitaion, buy gear parts with resilent and skill perks. Dunno maybe u have those items but if u dont have then u cant say u cant win with GA. Moreover grit not lasts constantly there is longer break between light attacks, moreover grit does not grant u immune for stuns. Good combo is spear with sword and shield it gives u increadible sustain plus with gear perks u can cleanse your self and transfer debuffs which u get on ur enemy.
I find the quick 1 hitters synergise best with bow and light armor. It also gives me two movement abilities that double up as escape tools. To clarify I use kick, skewer and javelin.
Here’s a video I made using this combo. It’s actually unlisted at the moment, but I thought maybe this demonstrates how I use the combo effectively.
Either youre bad or im bad. Im a bruiser. Against a skilled spear user its difficult to beat them. Trick is to use the cc’s and bleeds. You also need to dodge well. If you see a gravwell coming you’ve got to roll out of it. Otherwise you will be a stain on the ground.