Lol …when I watched the last Devs video and when they sayd the #1 weapon is still hatchet I was like "yea right’’. I’m playing OPR every day and the most players are still using GA/WH. I see 2-3 players who are using hatchets and this is it.You have 15-20 players who are using GA/WH at least on my server and I think this is the same on other servers.Do I need to explain why??? I guess not since Devs are playing GA/WH and they making sure this weapons will be balance good against any other weapons.
Your server is very different from mine…or the one I was on just before it. Most melee have been gone for months now. There’s only a handful on a side often times, and many of those are now running hatchets, spears, and swords. It makes it very hard to take a point because there’s nobody willing to jump in first since the ga/wh meta is over. I’d say on average there are more VG’s in any given OPR I play than great axes. And I just transferred to one of the big servers people are congregating to in my region, and have run 15+ OPR in the last couple days.
And as for the person screaming about a 4k hit from, the only way you’re getting hit for 4k is if you’re getting hit by a heavy attack, and if you’re in light armor getting hit by a GA heavy, lol. I have a 625 great axe and I hit full glass cannon lights for 3k crits, and since the meta on my server is magic, I’m pretty sure I only hit that high because people are likely running elemental resist gems.
Its a constant ploy by some GA users, of which there are many obviously, to pretend you’ve been nerfed to the point where it’s just not feasible to play any more.
Irrespective of all the people who continue to play it. You can stop with the pretence, those who are still playing OPR/Wars are all aware of what it is. Funny thing was you begrudgingly admit it was “maybe OP”. I’m sure you thought that at the time as well.
It’s an average dps weapon that offers some mobility and aoe with high cooldowns. Take the aoe away from it when fighting against range players or another high dps weapon like hatchet or rapier and you get a bad weapon.
Have you actually played with the great axe and warhammer? I have, I’m a dex user, I tried GA/WH to see how cheese it is, I brought all 600 gear, resil perks, have fury and a keenly empowered keen great axe.
I should cheese right?
No, I am mechanically shit with the great axe hammer, I can only play well in groups with it where others carry me, people with the exact same builds can beat me at it because they’ve learned how to play it and play it well.
I emplore you to try the build you call OP before using it, because strength GA/WH is very much not OP. I think its fair to say it’s even underpowered. the ONLY time it really shines is in group combat. imo
Here we go even after the patch GA/WH is still meta.You can see 20+ of them in OPR in every game.Top killers also with heavy gear.Maelstorm is one shooting light armor players and then they are not doing anything to fix this crap.
a lot of this “meta” would be resolved if they changed the passive from 300 str to 300 con. A dps with an “unstoppable” buff, which is a defense buff, doesn’t make any sense
Yep - Grit needs to go. Thwarting strikes has just rubbed salt in the wound at this point. Grit alone gives 12% damage reduction and now 11% more damage for free. Why? The build is outperforming in war, which is the only pvp that matters in this game according to AGS’s reward system
Mage never was a meta.Mages was able to kill heavy armor players with there heavy attacks but after the nerfs they are just trash also mages was never able to one shot anyone ingame.Anyways im not talking here about mages im talking about how much GA/WH is overpower then any other weapons and what they will do about this.I really dont know how they dont see this but everyone knows Mealstorm can one shot players who are in light armor.I mean GA players who are running with heavy armor can just one shot light armr players.Anyone think this is fun ???Afcourse not and this need to be changed.
The biggest problem is that GA/WH are the devs favourite weapons, thats why they put way more effort into them (multiple reworks in PTR) and push IG/VG to like with massive stutter issues (and no reworks to underused skills).