can you still counter spear sweep by jumping ? 
Thanks for the lesson, I don’t use spear anymore. If I get caught in a grav well, it’s the 3rd one thrown at me in a 5s span
I main spear rapier in light armor with 150str/160sex 200con. I run skewer, perforate, and sweep. After fighting thousands of people it can go a few ways. Please note I am not the best player or the worst.
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VS well geared, good WH/GA user you will lose most of the time. With thwarting strikes, etc you can not simply take enough damage while they heal up.
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Vs well geared, bad player you will win most of the time by simply dodging and attacking their back. You can kill them just by simply light attacks and staying out of the way. Not to mention bleed and rend. Just stick and move.
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Vs bad geared good player you will win most of the time. You can bleed and chunk them out very fast if you get to their back.
Unless you use kick, I would only use sweep for grit or if you know it will kd. Like when they just finished an attack.
Also, make sure you are never out of stam. When I die, this is usually the reason. Hope this helps.
My main issue is trying to catch people to attack… every time I try to hit I am frozen in place while they simply move out of range.
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I am kiting to death xD Gravity Well has almost 30 sec cooldown is very slow in 1v1 easy to avoid. You don’t need to avoid it completly just try to not get rooted 
They cc often! You can see that they use two different stuns to cc the wh/gh. You can also see that the person in the video don’t use 300 str. They don’t have grit on the basic attacks.
Not much you can do there unfortunately as you know 
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yep D:
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What is a strength gem? The only gems I see that convert damage use Int or Foc.
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What gs you have, what skills you play and what armor you got , dont get me wrong with that laught but spear have no problem to kill bruiser at all. On forum it shoul always start with that and them when you got all your gear right start blaming that something is OP. What i see on the forum is that ppl thing 600 gs is competitive to 625
I don’t stun any GA users ever.
Grit isn’t immune to stuns
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I think the hardest part about this match up is spear doesn’t have a really decent counter to grav well, you can escape it but vault kicking out.
However the biggest issue I’ve found is you often lose a trade because grit is on all their attacks and stops sweep
It’s doable but it’s a hard fight
The rapier reposte lets you do this, and you can punish certain hammer skills with the upgraded vault kick and the correct timing.
Blunderbluss should give the spear another range management option to get the bruiser low before going in with spear.
Spears normally get me as a bruiser when I dive their backline in OPR and they’re positioned defensively to protect their healer etc. They’re pretty easy to manage when they initiate combat head on to me as bruiser. If I turn my back to one they can punish as well in short bursts.
So you sant spear witch is 1 weapon to beat ga/hammer witch is 2?
Spear wins vs GA in a 1v1 scenario, maybe your gs is too low, you play the wrong skills, wrong armor, wrong perks …
Just saying i lost to them so why are they so op is just an easy excuse
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You cant defeat them. There is no other melee combo that can defeat it.
This is an answer. Best paired with SnS or Rapier imo.
Thwarting strikes axe user is still tough but doable.
Enduring strikes wasn’t nerfed this patch, patch notes were wrong. Still 20% instead of 12% damage resist for GA (while grit, basically 24/7 @300str)
Next patch will be better if that change goes through.
Try to trade damage when they use WH, GA has too much life steal.
Light spear vs light GAWH, is doable.
Light spear vs medium/heavy GAWH is hard because their damage absorb
Medium spear vs light/medium/heavy GAWH is doable
That makes no sense. 50 str I get. Maybe. But 150? What for?
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A number of weapons lock you in place during certain abilities. Hatchet is a good example.