The upcoming patches

[Poox]

Speaking about the new patches upcoming soon
1.78



Could you possibly tell me if I could do the following things.


Change Battler 2 Handed ----> Polearm (Slash/Crush/Thrust)
Change Malice 1 Handed ----> Either Crush/Thrust/Slash

OR IF THE ABOVE DOES NOT WORK

Change Malice 1 Handed ----> Malice Polearm (Slash/Crush/Thrust)
Change Battler 2 Handed ----> Battler 1 Handed (Slash/Crush/Thrust)


Or could you also tell me if both work etc.



And also which one out of Slash/Crush/Thrust Would be the best
based on a Polearm spec of 50 Polearm, 42 Shield, 39 One Handed , 6 Parry.




Thanks in advance

 

[eggy]

Could you possibly tell me if I could do the following things.

Change Battler 2 Handed ----> Polearm (Slash/Crush/Thrust)
Change Malice 1 Handed ----> Either Crush/Thrust/Slash

OR IF THE ABOVE DOES NOT WORK

Change Malice 1 Handed ----> Malice Polearm (Slash/Crush/Thrust)
Change Battler 2 Handed ----> Battler 1 Handed (Slash/Crush/Thrust)

Battler only available in slash version of polearm, but I believe you can change to that, yes.

Malice 1h you could change from slash to crush, or crush to slash. There is no thrust.

Malice 1h you could change to slash polearm. There is no crush/thrust afaik.

Battler 2h you could change to Battler 1h.

I'll check on internal servers later.

And also which one out of Slash/Crush/Thrust Would be the best based on a Polearm spec of 50 Polearm, 42 Shield, 39 One Handed , 6 Parry.

Depends who you want to fight. Different realms have different resistances to melee. Kagato did a post similar to this, use search at the top of the page.

 

[Kagato]

Yes you can alter Malice and Battler to be Polearms, no matter what it is currently.

However I believe it will be back to level 0 again if you do so and need to exp all over again.

BUT - They can both only be Slash damage in polearm versions as Eggy said.

It sucks, but thats how it is.

Regarding whats best here is a brief summary:

Overall Thrust damage is the best option for polearms, your 100% strength based regardless of damage type so you suffer no penalty for it.

This basically means your doing bonus damage against the most classes including all of midgards support classes and your neutral to all hibs. Overall thrust is the winner, specially from a group perspective.

Crush is a close second being neutral to the majority of enemy classes and doing bonus damage against Hib stealthers, your only resisted by a couple of hibby classes such as heros and champs. From a soloing perspective though Crush can be the better option.

Slash is shit, pure and simple, Slash damage from Albion perspective is a terrible choice being resisted by alot of classes and only good vs a minor few.

But don't take my word for it, look at any armour table and it is blindingly obvious. I;ll probably try malice myself regardless but Slash is aweful, we can only pray they will give a crush choice on it, but I doubt it.