But elf axe have same parry angle, and even its little faster, only bad thing its attack pattern.
Sienna is different can of worms with how OP is crowbill is.
2hd elf sword… what upward swing ? its have 3 sides attack (2nd heavy is completly horizontal) and heavy is point attack
or you meant glaive?
And yeah glaive is chain but slowmo as it dont slow your movement speed when attacking, all other 2hd weapons suffer from this.
Halberd stab and spear is same actually (outside of spear being faster in attacks) but still same problem halberd makes you considerable slower when attacking,and you can copmbo 2 stabs and heavy stab.
And about shields yeah halberd shieldbreaking is quite good but comparing to vermin patrol I have easier way to dealing with them with spear than halberd mostly because I dont lose stamina for overheads for spear and overheads have tendency to be absorbed by shields. Poking them is bad idea because of what I said earlier you are slowed when attacking.
dual sword suffers from what every specialist weapon suffer its good at what its should do but terrible at second thing. (its have actually 10% on push attack)
SnD have push attack that ignore shields and with half the cost for Push its very good alternative
SnD both heavies is good against elites I dont know what do you mean 2 other consuming attacks
SnD 3rd is not dagger stab (its sides attack) but yeah have bad cleave (easier to hit than stab)
A&F dont break shields.
Backstabs are not very reliable and that 50% damage is not always actually 50% (probably because of how power is calculated dunno? its mostly deal less on crit than it should)
Grim most of times are half way the map and with how bad ppl can be with them I don’t count them as reliable (but yeah its closest to cheapest power bonus)
WTC its only 5 s and in dense enemies packing its not reliable at all
Zealot is broken 
Sienna don’t have good weapons for breakpoints and that kinda sad, and crowbill is on par with A&F of being too good
Merc need to activate it, I don’t count it reliable for example you want headshot stormvermin with exec sword but your breakpoint is on cleave passive, well too bad for you.
I would say slayer passive is very hard to be reliable, for example you need that 3 stack to one shot chaos warrior with pickaxe, you have nearly no safe time to hit it (2s and full charge thats very close window)
Its avearge but its very cheap and reliable because its dont have activation cost.
Push cost, yeah well my bad I completly forgot that rapier and dagger have half cost to.
And second my bad I though saltz had passive on staggering everything on crit because even rapier staggered shitton of harder enemies on crit (on light attacks) but from testing I see when they have higher stagger resists that A&F stagger them and rapier don’t
Flamethrower is flamethrower its not comparable to BoP or xbow
drakepistols and shortbow… well can’t say that much I played way to less on shortbow to compare them like that. Pistols have problem with sniping specials because they have very low damage and have accuracy like drunk saltz.
I would say his xbow is very good too, its great special sniping and elite horde cleaning tool, its lack burst damage, thats why i compared elf xbow to bops, because they are pretty similar.
BoPs have more damage on shoot but in burst damage I would say xbow is better mostly because its have good reload time and with scrounger it can gain another magazine to spent on monster.
in few words yeah A&F is too strong but same as elf weapons its need rebalancing, and we know it wont get it because its dlc weapon one aspect of selling point of it
Maybe lets make another topic with it and we can discuss its more in that, because right now we are completly offtopic in this