The 2h mace is by far the best weapon by virtue of doing all the mentioned things (high damage, good vs. armored, excellent debuff) on top of not requiring any perks to use it effectively. Which is what enables it to be used as a ""pocket weapon"" by qatal duelists. I enjoy QH 2h mace + qatal duelist because if your frontline is made up of such people, they can focus down super tanky enemies super easily by utilizing the dazes from their fellow duelists. It's nice when four dudes can just delete a lindwurm or schrat from existence before they even get to deal damage. It does eat fatigue like crazy, and wants high accuracy, so that's a barrier to getting a lot of such duelists. though the swordlance does give it a run for its money, as far as raw punishment and BS potential goes luckily you don't have to choose, you can just run both for high single target + high AoE damage
Agreed that it's the best weapon in the game, actually not as exciting as a named axe or named bardiche especially but the store bought one just works wonders against everyone except Gilder armies where daze is often kind of wasted. Dodge-nimble 2h mace is still fine because you may want to field it earlier than you have a battleforged brother and you could daze 2 people with tied together turns, or you could have a slightly slower dagger and really fast mace where they can still support eachother without wasting synergy. Dodge-nimble 2h hammer has the draw that stagger when applied pushes the enemy to the end of the initiative line, though. Both builds must have 9 lives to not bleed out Both weapons are really good at injury, qatal likes excutioner a lot because against weak armor it can often proc it itself much like many duelist weapons and when you stack damage buffs with deathblow people die very quickly. That's why drunk is the best trait for a qatalist, though it's probably the best trait in the game in general Solution to setting up deathblow on forged mace is adrenaline or dodgeforged if you're into that like i am The 2 turn stun is also great vs savants if you can actually land the hit, they just can't put up with the damage
The 2h mace is by far the best weapon by virtue of doing all the mentioned things (high damage, good vs. armored, excellent debuff) on top of not requiring any perks to use it effectively.
Which is what enables it to be used as a ""pocket weapon"" by qatal duelists.
I enjoy QH 2h mace + qatal duelist because if your frontline is made up of such people, they can focus down super tanky enemies super easily by utilizing the dazes from their fellow duelists.
It's nice when four dudes can just delete a lindwurm or schrat from existence before they even get to deal damage.
It does eat fatigue like crazy, and wants high accuracy, so that's a barrier to getting a lot of such duelists.
though the swordlance does give it a run for its money, as far as raw punishment and BS potential goes
luckily you don't have to choose, you can just run both for high single target + high AoE damage
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Agreed that it's the best weapon in the game, actually not as exciting as a named axe or named bardiche especially but the store bought one just works wonders against everyone except Gilder armies where daze is often kind of wasted.
Dodge-nimble 2h mace is still fine because you may want to field it earlier than you have a battleforged brother and you could daze 2 people with tied together turns, or you could have a slightly slower dagger and really fast mace where they can still support eachother without wasting synergy. Dodge-nimble 2h hammer has the draw that stagger when applied pushes the enemy to the end of the initiative line, though. Both builds must have 9 lives to not bleed out
Both weapons are really good at injury, qatal likes excutioner a lot because against weak armor it can often proc it itself much like many duelist weapons and when you stack damage buffs with deathblow people die very quickly. That's why drunk is the best trait for a qatalist, though it's probably the best trait in the game in general
Solution to setting up deathblow on forged mace is adrenaline or dodgeforged if you're into that like i am
The 2 turn stun is also great vs savants if you can actually land the hit, they just can't put up with the damage
I fielded a team with 4 maces and 3 daggers, very fun and powerful with daze + deathblow.
Great video