I have been browsing and lurking from thread to thread here in AL and having read all your opinions on weapons, It's like dawning in me that the "BEST WEAPON" in my humble opinion (arcane and mythics aside) is still your good 'ol trusty Storm Sword (of potency). You ask me why, lemme break it down for you.
First of all, I've been a "warrior" all my life. I've played several MMORPG's and I always like being the brute last-man-standing type of guy. I've played FLYFF, Diablo, WoW, etc and I never opted to be another player other than the Knight, Barbarian, or Warrior. Having that said, I have observed how your usual all-str, all-melee, smash all you can warrior evolved into a skill using combo freak. And, unlike your usual pure-meat shield no damage tank type, I somewhat deviated and made a build of my own which is the off-tank warrior type. This one still has enough meat in him to taunt the aggro when the primary tank dies until he gets back up again. Again, why did I make this type of Warrior? Because, as awesome as it may to be the last man standing/party keeper, we all know how BORING it is to just get all the beating and watch your party kill all those who try to kill you. Another thing is that,Pure-tanks outnumber off-tanks more than 10:1 so why worry about being the main tank, someones always there to take care of the aggro.
Now going back to the weapon, I earlier said that the SS is better than the hammers. Why? I'll do my best to be very very understandable for this build has baffled lots of critics. lets put it this way...
• Entombed Hammer • (about 220 dmg at 180 dps)
- High Damage, - Slow attack speed, - Low DPS
• Storm Sword • (about 200 dmg at 225 dps)
- Ample Damage, - Good attack speed, - High DPS (+mana Bonus)
When using entombed, you always go for the killing shot since you have high damaged coupled with a skill (and perhaps critical) but after using a skill, you have to wait a bit longer to charge it. and since its not applicable to be used for normal attack since its too slow, you become quite mana dependent, which is lacking in most good damaging hammers. only the crap hammers have mana bonuses.
When using the Storm Sword (of potency), aside from its faster to charge, since your DPS is good, you won't have to rely much on mana to do ample damage. but instead, you can do several "cheap shots" in between skills. and what makes it better is it usually gives more HP and Mana meaning it will take a li'l bit longer for you to get killed while also getting into the action instead of just sitting and watching your teamates kill those who try to kill you. Plus, if you are good enough, you could always save your mana for heals or the last killing shot instead of using it on every attack then running around in circles once your mana rans out.
Not only that but I also see the SS being more useful in PvE due to its DPS advantage.
Again, these are all my opinion based on my observation. I could be wrong but so far, this is what works for me. My hammer is quickly turning into a thing just for shows but I think the SS is really a good but underrated weapon.
Edit: I refrain from considering abyssal since its too freakin' expensive. But yeah, if you can have one, go for it.
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