Weapons

[vectorViridian]

Well I'm finding this game quite fun, but I have to say something about the weapons. Basically, some of them seem completely useless. Maybe I'm just using them wrong or something, who knows. The rifle comes to mind, I picked it up because of the super high damage but found it's only a single-target weapon, and unless you have at least 2-3 other party members with amazing CC weapons, you will have a hard time. Everything but the Tome for the mage seems to be bad as well, forcing the squishy mage into melee range and certain death. The longbow was quite underwhelming as well, basically just worse than the crossbow, hand crossbow and short bow due to the lack of CC. The great axe is another one that feels very lackluster. You have all these weird skills that maybe look cool but don't really get the job done. Regular axe is much better. My favorite weapons so far are: tome, short bow/crossbow/hand crossbow, either hammer (any), regular axe, or two-handed sword. These weapons seem to have the best combo of CC, single target damage, and just overall utility.

[TripSin]

Hand cross bow and druid staff are probably among the strongest weapons in the game (stacking multi-hit and propogation as much as possible, respectively).

Rifle, unless they've buffed it since I last used it, is indeed booty butt cheeks.

[Bumc]

They buffed rifle several times iirc, but it still has its main problem of every worthwhile ability costing 2 AP.

2h axe offers a reasonable amount of mobility and utility. And I did find a use for it in a scroll build (use AP to buff yourself, debuff enemies, use scrolls to clear packs).
With buff duration talent its damage buff stacks for absurd numbers and you can remove debuff with any cleanse if needed. Not a top tier build, but at least something.

[Earl Komrad]

Longbow is quite good against big, tough enemies that are isolated and its range allows you to pick off enemies that spawn near corners or cover more than one lane of approach without spending many movement points, if any. It also has a decent 3x3 stun attack.

There are other terrible weapons aside from the rifle, namely the power staff, magic scepter, and crossbow.

[Toad]

I actually really like the longbow. More than the short bow because of it's massive range and high damage. You can put this guy at the corner of the map, give him high isolation and some ap potions and high crit stuff like glass cannon, and he murders everything in two sides that is awkward for others to get to.

[Bumc]

I actually like the power staff for early and mid-game. It has high base damage and I generally take opportunist omen bringing the 2 mana aoe to the point where it one-shots anything tagged with a debuff.
So basically you tap 2 bigger guys in a 2x3 block with basic attack and finish 6 enemies in a quite efficient 4 AP 2 mana combo.

It does fall off when everyone gets more efficient mobility and damage options, but that can take some time.

[vectorViridian]

It seems there are additional weapons that are actually really awesome. Druid staff is actually one of the best weapons, as someone mentioned earlier. Really good debuffs, a solid single target skill and a solid CC skill. Magic orb is also way better than I originally thought. The spear is quite amazing as well as it ignores armor and does crazy damage.

[Samseng Yik]

I think all weapons are awesome.
But some require specific condition to shine.
Some only suitable as sidearm (Pistol, Scepter) for 1 AP deal high single target damage occasionally

[MidwinterViking]

Yeah. All the weapons suck.

Except the hand crossbow, that one is great. And the 1H sword and druid staff are pretty good too. And the dagger, longbow, 1H Ax, tome, both hammers, the spear, tome, 2H Sword and ax, staff, orb and scepter. And I guess the pistol, rifle, and crossbow are good in specific builds.

That leaves the magic wand; I never see anyone defend the magic wand. [wand defender enters chat in 3…2…]

[mjkittredge]

You just have to experiment with them. If the other two night rewards suck, choose the weapon you don't use much and give it a whirl.

My least favorite is the Crossbow. It's powerful but it's skills are so clunky it's hard to use. Same with the power staff, it seems great in theory but in practice it's hard to use.

I think the Scepter is amazing. Just did a 1,000 damage momentum hit with one. The one AP hit 4 monsters is great, the movement/dodge buff is excellent utility, the propagation damage and stun move is great as well especially with improved stun chance and extra propagation bounces.

I've had good luck with the Rifle. You do need 6 or more AP, but you can really snipe the most dangerous monsters with ease and massively slow huge groups. The range and damage are superb.

My favorite is the Druid staff. The poison damage is just enormous and ignores armor. The AOE movement reduction skill is super useful. And the single target DPS can be enormous with opportunism.

[Bumc]

>> wand defender enters chat in 3…2…

I've seen reasonable magic wand builds, but whatever wands can do hand crossbow can do better.
Except assist someone. Early game consolidating AP on a character with best weapon is quite helpful.

Still, legendary assassin crit-mage with some scrolls for aoe can be a bootleg hand crossbow user and solo hold the side just fine.

[CanuckBear]

I think the design of the multiple weapon choices works well (high diff).

The early game is more interesting (play with whatever, decide when it is time to improve).
The mid game also exciting, prioritize finding really good weapons or still use the available bad one but higher level maybe, or better random improvement.
In the late game it is really important to find the good weapons...if you also selected the correct perks :)

It's a decent pace, enabled by the somewhat high variety of weapons and equipment/items.

[Vespertellino]

You have 2 weap slots for a reson
Some of them are niche, and are really good at that niche

[Samseng Yik]

If your heroes dedicating to only 1 weapon.
Pretty much unwinnable on high difficulty.
Even a sword or axe user will love to have a dagger.

[Melmak]

1h crossbow is opie opie possibly even moe tha it used to kek, now you just kill everhing in sight with regular attack

[GeminiEclipse]

I don't think any of them are necessarily bad. Just some can scale with multi-hit/propagation.

Rifle is probably the worst just because it's normal attack guzzles so much AP.