Chain Weapons are just wrong

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Given my enthusiasm for the Chain Axe I have been hard at work discovering all the little weirdnesses of this weapon. I’m going to say a few things:

  1. Its one of those weapons that has blessing dependencies to even be useful. Like the heavy sword.
  2. It has weird behaviors that once you get used to can be good rather than bad. I like this.
  3. Light attacks can hit as many as 3 targets, possibly 4, once on high buff stacks and are useful in groaner hordes
  4. heavies are useful against hordes and tightly packed bruisers/shooters when stacks are high
  5. This weapon feels like someone’s crazy experiment but I’m here for it. Wherever you are you madman I had fun with your weird idea.

Here’s some issues I still have:

*I still think its a tad on the weak side. I’m only really competing with other zealots using Antaxes and Heavy Swords because I run slaughterer and headtaker 3 on my axe and have invested quite a few hours into learning the weapon. The fact that I can get both of those blessings is cool. I worry that the effectiveness loss of trying to run Rev it up or bloodthirst really would make the weapon feel a lot worse however. And by worry I mean I’ve played like that and its not abysmal but it does feel weaker.

*It mostly feels weak before you start getting +Power buff stacks. The added cleave, cleave damage, hitmass adjustments, damage increases, are all required to make the weapon feel good and it sorta has this curve where it starts off kinda weak and then climbs into a berzerker fury. Is that a good or a bad design? I can’t tell. On the one hand its cool and I like it, on the other hand when you are at a cold start and hit some chaff guy 2-3 times with a CHAIN AXE and he’s still alive that feels pretty dumb.

*Heavy attacks still have insufficiently chain-weapon-y SFX and VFX and could really use more VRRRRR and GRRRRRR when swinging them.

*Lights and Revs feel and sound great and I love using lights, after I taught myself how to swing them properly.

*Lights still latch on hands or on the model origin sometimes and that feels like a crime against my camera. The camera should always latch on body or head even if the weapon latches on an arm.

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