Hey guys, I was just curious if the power maul was a decent weapon, and what I should have on it for damage builds? I tested it out in the grinder and it seems literally every other melee weapon just does more damage. What traits and blessings should I have on it?
Power Maul is rightfully considered one of the worst melee weappns in the game right now. I wouldn’t touch it with a 10 foot pole. If you want club gameplay, either go for the Mk1 Club or the Mk 3b club.
Our only hope is that this upcoming patch gives it some life support.
I would say you probably want to eke as much damage out of it as possible, so Brutal Momentum and Skullcrusher would be good. Skullcrusher is a mandatory blessing, but you can change BM for confident strike for more survivability if you want.
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Ok so it’s not just me, it is actually weak. That sucks man. The power maul is the only club we got right now that doesn’t look like a crack head fashioned it at Home Depot lol. Plus I rolled a 380 base PM with Skull crusher 4 on it and +20 to mainiacs….
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I agree with you 100%. Like I said, I hope the update in 1-2 weeks can really help it. The Zealot Crusher used to be in the same position but got some massive buffs that made it one of Zealot’s best melee weappns in patch 14. Was dissapointed in that update that they didn’t apply the same philosophy to the Ogryn Power Maul as they are very similar weapons (more base damage, high headshot modifier, and smaller AoE on the stagger ability but way more damage).
I have a pair of very good Pauls that I would love to dust off and take back into the field, but atm there is no reason to unless you want to be a discount Smite psyker and spam special lights to stagger enemies.
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The Crusher is almost too good.
The Paul… just look at its stats.
The charged attacks are good, really. You can run it with the “more dmg vs. suppressed” aura. But its base damage is horrid.
If it did a third more damage with uncharged swipes, or was 20% faster, it would still not be overpowered.
best to not touch them until they are improved.
As for the other mauls: We are talking about Ogryn weapons. If it’s vaguely club shaped and contains some metal, it’s probably premium.
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Well, so my argument to that is the slab shield. The slab shield comes with a maul, made to look like a maul, that isn’t a power maul. Why can’t we have a club like that too?
Just feels like WAY too many of the cosmetic choices for Ogryn were made to distance them from the Imperial Guard. The poster art is how Ogryn commonly look, with custom made imperial guard armor. But they decided to make all their cosmetics look like Road Hog from overwatch.
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If you’re on PC use the weapon customization mod to bring the proper bonker skins in the game, so you don’t have to just use a stick of garbage. Or lean into it and use the unused one that has a pipe 90 on the top like me…either way, stay away from Power Maul until it gets some zesty Crusher style overhauls.
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I don’t mind Paul (Power Maul) but mark 1 bully club is my fav on Ogyrn. Highest heavy works great with melee ogyrn on carapace and monsters.
Only downside to that weapon is aesthetics. It looks like trash, but is the furthest thing from it. I would ACTUALLY use aquilas for the first time since buying premium edition to get a skin for that weapon.
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I think Shield with Maul is better, pal! I love my Cleaver, pers- persona- grogging personally!
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Agreed pal! I use meh shield and basher for duh fense build mostly. Me knife is for guttin duh runts when I forget meh shield
I just want more options I guess. I want a new shiney basher!!!
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Pal needs Cleaver with his Shield! No more grogging’ heretics are messing with us, yes?
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Right!
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Or uh GIANT basher! One whut takes 2 hands to bash wif! The bad Ogryn get one! Why can’t I?
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Yes! Big club sounds mean, pal! I like!
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@FatsharkAlan @FatsharkCatfish if…uh…I was to take one of dem heavy bashers off uh bad ogryn…and use it….would dat make me uh bad Ogryn too? I just want uh heavy basher’s all. Like what duh Emprah bashes wif!
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I dunno, looking at the 40k wiki Ogryn Article, almost every picture that’s not a bullgryn seems to depict sweaty Ogryn in tattered shirts.
That said, I’m all for getting a slab of concrete on a pipe as a weapon choice for Ogryn.
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I’m used to the models, and most of them have at least some issued armor. Most of the ones bare chested and stuff are the Catachan squad ogryn. But we don’t even have ONE imperial guard breast plate like the poster art.
Brunt is skullbreaker, not crackhead.
Is ok. Easy mistake.
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