Brutal Momentum should only be available for weapons that already have good cleave, it should be removed from the axes, as long as the axes have access to Brutal Momentum they will never be balanced based on their base design, which is a hard hitting, single target high damage and stagger weapon, to compensate for the removal, make the Rashad cleave 3 newly infected, and 2 pox walkers, while the Antax gets one extra target, and the Achyls can go burn in a ditch for all I care.
as it currently stands, combat axes are one of the best cleave weapon in the game, which doesn’t make any sense to me, you attack once, and 5 enemies lose their heads, I really think the only solution is complete removal of the blessing, with no buff to the single target damage capabilities, if the axes get the above mentioned base cleave buff, I think they would be fine.
Or even remake it so that it has 20-30% increase to weakspot damage instead of 15%, but only ignore the hitmass of one enemy instead of three.
I think there is absolutely a case to be made for certain ‘mandatory’ blessings to become weapon features instead, facilitating balance and promoting build diversity.
Thunder Hammer Thrust blessing also comes to mind, but BM is a great example as (as you say) there are some weapons you just don’t want to leave it off of.
They need to stop making weapons bad to accommodate for blessings, definitely. Like them taking the 2 power sword swings you had when using it (3 total) and giving it to tier 4 power cycler only. Leaving the power sword with 1 empowered attack when you use the special. What level of warp sickness leads you to leave this weapon like that for 2 years. Oh yeah, the same team that has forgotten about giving vets a weapon for almost 10 months now.
And the force sword is also built around deflector blessing being a thing. You get deafened by static and blinded by a strobe when you block with the weapon (probably to balance out the possibility of blocking bullets). But it requires a blessing to trigger this effect.
Run n gun they ironically left off more weapons where it would be good than anything…if it were on braced autoguns and las pistols, I know what weapons I would be using most games. Funny enough the las pistol actually had run n gun forever ago before reblessing weapons was a thing. But also before run n gun had buffs besides shoot during sprint.
