Axes vs Swords?

[Dr. Thunderbeard]

Trying to figure out which to build into for which characters. What's the best weapon for one-handers? For two-handers?

[etalian]

the main difference is the special skills.

Clubs have two types of stun which is really useful
Axes have damage / critical strike specials
Swords have better defense / bleed on damage

Overall I found clubs to be more useful since stuns special magic or ability seems to even work on boss enemies.

I ended up going with clubs for a MC fighter for the stun and focusing Roland on the Axe tree

[andersonm]

So if you are really looking to powergame, I wonder if axes are best.

The axe "top skill", decapitation, does not trigger a cooldown. This means you can use critical strike (for armsman) or "attack" command for Officer.
Also enemies who become fearful can get backstabbed. So you may be able to do two backstabs even.
For armsman, Greataxe benefits from both axe and 2h-tree, and you get Cleave as well. For officer, there's melee accuracy.
Armsman backed by officer can potentially get 4 attacks maybe - Officer-buff, regular attack, critical strike cooldown attack, cleave attack.

Club stun is great early game, but critical strike might just be better. Not sure.
The key thing is that club and sword top skills are cooldown, competing with Critical Strike. Axe isn't.

[etalian]

Yeah the axe is better in terms of being to max out the damage per round.

The added advantage is decapitation is a passive ability so it's really handy at chain routing enemies that aren't immune to fear

[todesbart]

I skilled Axe with Roland and yeah, the damage was okay. In the end I should’ve just went with the club tree as stun in this game is way too good. You can chain stun with 2 club wearers and a mage with Thunderclap.

[etalian]

Another tip is the weapon special skill like stun seems to end the turn.

Local neighborhood mans discovers one weird trick, crabs hate it!

So for max damage with multi-attack, do a regular attack and then end with special attack.

[Mr. Happy Wolf]

Went with swords for my MC (single) and Roland (two handed) for my first playthrough, but now for my second playthrough I think I am going to focus on axes for Roland and swords for my MC this time around.