Q: RvR zerker weapon spec

[Deleted member 4013]

I was able to get holds of the 2h ml10 sword, and I am now seriously considering of maybe respeccing to sword instead of hammer.

any experienced zerker here to tell would it be worth it?

Currently using battler (hammer) + malice. 2handed is named hammer drop (forgot the name of it lol).

If I understood correctly, in future patch its possible to change the type of the battler. As its now activated to hammer, Id need to reactivate it to sword ofc.

My zerker's spec is 50/50/28 (hammer, LA, parry).

Give opinions please, as I very much like to use this troll zerker in RvR, hence I posted this here instead of regular prydwen section of this forums.

 

[Xxcalibur]

what about use mid forums ?

 

[Deleted member 4013]

Yes, you are right should have posted to midgard section, my bad.

 

[Puppet]

39 Sword
39 Hammer
50 Left Axe

Get +11 on both Sword and Hammer and u can use em both effectively if u use Left-Axe styles.

Depending on your RR u can drop Sword/Hammer (to get a modified 50 spec) and get more parry.

Switch mainhand-weapon depending on your enemies weaknesses.

 

[Bluesky]

Personally I wouldn't swap out of hammer/lefty as I love the spec altho at high rr's a tri/quad/wyrd spec is very good I hear- ask Osril hehe

As a zerk in RvR i very much doubt you woudl use your 2hander too much - mebbe if enemy is stunned, get a couple of swings on ur 2hander then back to dual weild and for that id get a dragon fury or similar very slow 2handed sword - I use Dragonstorm (uber slow and lovely damage)

The ml10 weapons are lovely and I have ditched battler on both sb and zerk in favour of them - believe me when the procs go off its very nice indeed but I woudl never use an ml10 2hander in general melee tho.

**EDIT** As puppet said the tri spec is nice but posted jsut before me lol personally I love the hammer rear chain

 

[Groag]

The only real advantage of sword spec on a Zerker is Ragnarok. With a good 2 hander and in Hamster mode you can do incredible damage in one hit. However, when you work it out, the rear chain on LA adds up to pretty much the same damage as ragnarok with a 2 hander, assuming all 3 styles land. I'd say the damage over time is about the same with the difference in swing speed, so not really worth the bother of switching weapons

 

[Deleted member 4013]

Thank you guys for great tips. one question remaining - charmangle replied in one zerker template topic about croc tooth dagger, how nice it is - and one should replace battler with that arti if used as main hand weapon.

What are your thouhts about this? is the arti encounter hard? are the scrolls rare?

 

[Zedenz]

Sword allows you to use Spear of Kings, which is enough reason in itself

 

[AngelHeal]

Sword allows you to use Spear of Kings, which is enough reason in itself

ur avater > all imo ;|

 

[Amelyn]

ur avater > all imo ;|

we need more avaters!!

 

[Osri]

Some stuff

Been 50+21 sword, 50+21 la...now about half year 39+20 hammer, 39+20 sword, 50+21 la.

Tried with 2h but didnt like it cause damage diffrence in reality at rvr favors dual wielding - Guard, shield, bupples, prevent flight with la >>> 2h. LA backchain offers very good damage and usable almost on every target.

Im full fg rvr focused, since respecced split spec not looked back. If solo...maybe like 39 hammer, 42 parry, 50 la better.

Using sok sword, malice leftyaxe, battler hammer. Switching mainhander according target and works very well. Can use hammer side, back snare if want for others in assist train catch target too and choose from 2 diffrent mainhand damage types.

Other artys I found good to have som, golm, gov/gsv,scalars. (might be more but as lazy pve´r not having em

There some stuff...

Ossy

 

[Deleted member 4013]

Been 50+21 sword, 50+21 la...now about half year 39+20 hammer, 39+20 sword, 50+21 la.

Tried with 2h but didnt like it cause damage diffrence in reality at rvr favors dual wielding - Guard, shield, bupples, prevent flight with la >>> 2h. LA backchain offers very good damage and usable almost on every target.

Im full fg rvr focused, since respecced split spec not looked back. If solo...maybe like 39 hammer, 42 parry, 50 la better.

Using sok sword, malice leftyaxe, battler hammer. Switching mainhander according target and works very well. Can use hammer side, back snare if want for others in assist train catch target too and choose from 2 diffrent mainhand damage types.

Other artys I found good to have som, golm, gov/gsv,scalars. (might be more but as lazy pve´r not having em

There some stuff...

Ossy

Thanks for tips , what about the Croc Tooth dagger as mainhand with malice LA? Worth it - to replace battler.

 

[Majsan]

Thanks for tips , what about the Croc Tooth dagger as mainhand with malice LA? Worth it - to replace battler.

Croc tooth is offhand weapon, 3.5 speed malice mainhand + croc offhand is best combo imo if you dont do splitspecc

 

[Dracus]

Since battler isnt off-hand as it can be for BM/merc I'd deffo go with what Majsan said. the malice proc is THAT good and I read sumwhere that if u use 4.1 main 3.5off as oppose to 4.1 4.1 u get a 7% dmg increase (more or less) coz of duel wield haste.

I'll see if I can find the whole report

/Dracus

 

[Osri]

Though croc /use abilitys are crap...battler, malice, sok has better ones which is one of my point having those 3.

There are diffrent options and malice, croc is very viable combo.

 

[Gahn]

Though croc /use abilitys are crap...battler, malice, sok has better ones which is one of my point having those 3.

There are diffrent options and malice, croc is very viable combo.

Less 4 shotting me lol

 

[Osri]

Höhö, 3 shotted joline yesterday

 

[Xrystofer]

Höhö, 3 shotted joline yesterday

can u 2 shoot some1 with charge/berzerk/banespikes?

 

[Chimaira]

zerk zerkers

 

[Rudor Dwarf]

can u 2 shoot some1 with charge/berzerk/banespikes?

Yes you can :>. But you need some luck with the crits so they dont land on ~10% or so .