the weapons

[Tyrone Biggums]

i really feel like the weapons in this game are not as good or fun as hades 1 i generally like axes and swords but man the axe in this game is so sluggish and only other melee weapon was the daggers just feel like the first game had better design choices

[AlliedKhajiit]

I haven't given any time to actually use the torches or the skull, but I think the daggers are pretty good, and I was recently just doing low life white antler whirlwind build with aspect of thanatos on the axe and it kicked ass. the nice thing too is that it's good and all the hammers suck for it until they fix the bug where aspect of thanatos doesn't build the crit rate. But really, maxed out white antler, low life with the arcana that gives 50% more dmg and 50% damage reduction, and get 2 curses rolling for another 50% dmg, then pick up increased attack range from apollo or something and just obliterate enemies with 60% crit rate, very fun spin 2 win build
staff is also pretty nice, but its best dps build actually utilizing the weapon hinges on getting the hammer that doubles its specials, then levelling the heck out of poseidon's special and just oblitering enemies that way
Daggers also have a fun special build but hammers are required for it which kinda stinks, and it needs aspect of pan for throwing 10 daggers. but if you have that and the thrown daggers return you can easily start hitting 10 dagger specials for like 2-3k damage point blank which is quite fun, and the pierce and return makes it good at aoe too

[WolfLink0370]

Axe is slow but it's pretty well balanced. Innate aspect removes a lot of the recovery time, and probably the biggest bonus with it is that you have the option to block at any time with the special (a drawback though is that, due to it being a held action... 'The Sorceress' Arcana will not trigger - this is likely because it does not consider this a proper channeled maneuver)

Aphrodite is the clear choice for the Attack boon with that weapon; as for the Special, probably Apollos. Hephaestus is also a good pick as it has some great support boons for the Axe... such as Uncanny Fortitude, Tough Trade, and Fixed Gain (the basic idea with these three is you bank on being hit during your attacks so that Tough Trade makes them stronger - the other two are there primarily for extending how long you can capitalize on using Tough Trade aggressively... by respectively giving you a bigger health pool along with reducing damage taken by ten percent)