Game would be easier to "balance" (and more fun) if the slower weapons were the best ones

[Vror]

Title basically, and only refeering to melees

Think about it, if the meta was Relic Sword (or Evis) / Power Sword (This one happened in the past however) / Force Greatswords, we probably wouldn’t get near as much complaints as we got with Duelling Sword / Knife

I’d say it’s because of the Slower ones being riskier by the reduced mobility, and thus at least people would feel they’re “Fair” if anything, even if they overperformed vastly just like Duelling Sword currently does

Edit: Yes I’d love a Chainaxe/Chainsword meta as well

[Harridas]

You know I kinda agree, but Relic Blade & Force Greatsword are already incredibly strong and dare I say, meta.(I love them tho, pls don’t nerf or buff)

So long as we never get old power sword back, I think this may be preferable.

[LVSpooky]

It’s just common sense that faster weapons are safer and more mobile innately. Higher risk should be higher reward. I don’t think weapons in general should be too op though. OP weapons ruin the game a bit.

[Vror]

Yeah I think their power level is what the community would like for all weapons and what I think Fatshark should strive for

I was just saying that in the hypothetical situation that they were as strong as current Duelling Sword, that people would not complain not even as half as they do with said Duelling Sword

[Amelia]

weapons can be strong but still balanced in their ways as you said
ds is overtuned, strong but unbalanced

[dannylew8299]

The force greatsword, relic blade, and pickaxe are pretty swell. Would love to see Evi and Thammer get that level of love.

[Ralendil]

@Vror

Think about it, if the meta was Relic Sword

Relic swords and power sword are one of the strongest melee weapons of the game!
Don’t make a confusion… DS situation is NOT normal.
Combat Blade is a light year ahead of the DS.

And for your info, I actually favor the weapons for their mobility… And when I say I pick them for the mobility, it means that I don’t pick weapons with 60% movement, but with 80% or at least 70%.
And I am also in a period of Relic sword (MK II)… that I love for its capacity to stagger everything.

Here is the list I did:

While doing it, I could see that Catachan sword is in the group that allow you good movement while the heavy sword is actually a very slow movement weapon.
I still think that the heavy sword does not look and feel like heavy… and at all. Relic blade feels heavy… not the Heavy sword.

But actually Relic swords are REALLY strong, like the Greatswords are also…

The problem is the meta themselves. Stop buffing everything to an insane state.

Start to NERF!

Precision: They can buff totally useless weapons that nobody picks… here I have no problem to see weapons, that are bad for 2 years, being buffed.