Having to activate the special ability after every hit is just plain annoying. Using it without the charge is just not fun. It feels like you’re attacking them with a pool noodle instead of something akin to a light sabre Can you rebalance it somehow so that the charge is always on? Like maybe it…

Power Sword used to be a lot of fun. It was never invalidating other weapon choices. No weapon was. If anyone was saying that, they were either trolling or didn’t know what they were talking about. It was very good. It was meta too, so most players used it, the way they use combat axes or Purgatus s…

[image] sant: Now the Power Sword just sucks. Wrong. If you do not like the weapon, fine. But it is certainly NOT bad and does NOT suck.

The PS with PC is too strong… But as I have just written right now, I think that they should give a true weakness to the PS. Like by example carapace.

[image] Ralendil: But as I have just written right now, I think that they should give a true weakness to the PS. Like by example carapace. TBF it is not that great against carapace, unless you use rending blessing (or happen to have slaughterer stacked, and can keep it stacked while fighting …

10 seconds to kill a crusher with PS that has sunder and PC 10 seconds to kill a crusher with a combat axe that has thunderous.

[image] Ralendil: 10 seconds to kill a crusher with PS that has sunder and PC Isn’t PC useless on elites? It deactivates after hitting them. [image] Patch #7 Weapon special attacks on activated weapons (Chain swords, Thunder hammers, Force swords, Chain axes) now always stop on Elites, Sp…

[image] Ralendil: 10 seconds to kill a crusher with a combat axe that has thunderous. Try decimator on your axe. I get consistent 420+ dps on a crusher with that ( and 20% carapace dmg). No stacking before first hit. No crits.

[image] Fingeris: Isn’t PC useless on elites? It deactivates after hitting them. No. This only applies to weapons that have a „sticky“ animation on their weapon special hit against elites. Powersword and Illisi Force sword behave differently.

[image] So they nerfed Power swords. General Discussion Tested. So I charge up, swing through enemies and when i hit an elite+ the weapon continues but the charge ends. I stop doing the bonus charge up dmg and just do my normal swing dmg. It is in the notes under cleave…

[image] Patch #7 (Chain swords, Thunder hammers, Force swords, Chain axes) No Power Sword mentioned there. Also the way I understand it is: those weapons deal that charged extra damage to first elite etc. So you can still pick them in horde. The charge used to be dealt to the first enemy hit. …

Power sword isn't fun

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Isn’t PC useless on elites? It deactivates after hitting them.

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