To my noobish eyes i would go for the gcb wep. I dont know what the damage enchenments on the  gs item thanslate to yet.

Not to derail the thread any but my WC bard is THF and uses a falc because everyone said the crit range was better and more damage overall. So how come I dont see too many GS falch and alot GS greatswords and greataxes. I am just now gettting a couple of toons up to shrould lvl to start farming for ingredients and was just curious.

Auran wrote on Mar 1^st, 2010 at 12:11am:


So right now there is no option for a GS Falchion? Just great sword and greataxe?

woody wrote on Mar 1^st, 2010 at 12:26am:


you can make a falchion. since the attack speed was normalised, some players have switched to falchions. many will still rely on greataxes and swords as it takes a pretty large investment of larges, esp scales. i'm not sure how good it is but the latest calculations suggest that falchion has the edge in dps under normal circumstances. however, the disadvantage is this dps is largely crit based which means a GS or GA will be much stronger against 100% fort mobs

as to my "pedicament", i'm a wf barb

maul = 2d8 (9 base) + 5 + 2d6 (7 holy) + 1d6 (3.5 good) for 18 attacks of 24.5 and,
1 attack of 19.5 + 4d6 (14 good blast) + 4d6 (14 good blast crit) + 4d6 (14 good burst crit) = 66.5

this is assuming a x3 crit. if you account frenzy and the scaling of burst, its 24.5 + (2x7d6) + 4d6 = 87.5
so total damage in 20 attacks = 528.5 (assumption that good burst and good blast and crits stacks)
if i were to swop over to imp crit blunt, its 1 more attack of 24.5 + (2x)7d6 = 73.5. total = 577.5

GS = 2d6 (7 base) + 1 + 4 (greater bane) + 2d6 (7 holy) + 3d6 (10.5 greater bane) = 29.5 (15 attacks)
4 attacks of 29.5 + 6d6 (21 burst) = 50.5
total = 644.5 (assuming burst scales with frenzy, +4 from gtr bane counts), if +4 doesnt count, its 568.5)

pls point out the errors in my math

Demoyn wrote on Mar 1^st, 2010 at 11:57am:


To give the reason for this, way back when, some developer (well, one of the guys responsible for the animations) decided that when they made the animations for falchions and mauls swing at the same rate as Great Swords and Great Axes, they didn't like how it looked. So they made them slower, pretty much gimping 2 weapons for 3 and a half years because of a personal preference.

Hmm... that may be true, but I never saw anyone using mauls and I constantly saw people using greatswords (myself included).  As such I thought it was the other way around.

Aranticus wrote on Mar 1^st, 2010 at 11:58pm:


I generally hit portals on my fighter with his Mineral IIs cause I can't be bothered carrying extra weapons for them, so sue me

its more of a confirmation of how burst work, how burst work with frenzy and how the greater bane enhancement bonus work

[] wrote on Oct 23^rd, 2015 at 12:07pm:


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portal DPS?!  srsly?  nigger harder, troll!