Is this the best weapon? Or are there better ones?

[Rednax]

Halfway through my playthrough, i stumbled upon the industrial hammer. Well, i had it for a while, but i needed a one handed bash weapon that i could wield with my shield to take out the armored dudes in the desert, with the dual axes. I was at the desert waaaaaay to early.

Anyway, the industrial hammer stun locks all enemies on every hit. Only some bosses do not get stunned by it, and the giants. but every other enemy gets stunned for like one second.
Thats not long, but its every hit. And you can swing it really fast.

So i ditched the heavy armor, made sure my stamina was high ( putting stamina leach on the hammer, and wearing the stamina rings ). Then i could just beat the ♥♥♥♥ out of enemies, and they couldnt even move until i ran out of stamina. When that happened, i just pop up the shield ( which had its own stamina bar, because of a perk ), move back a bit till my stamina is full again, and then started hitting again until the enemy is dead.

This got pretty nuts, when i stacked +15% weapon damage on all my armor, and put like 40 points into strength. Enemies got stunlocked and died before a 4th of my stamina was down, and these are the 2 calibration red enemies im talking about. The regular dudes died in 1 / 2 hits.
Then i also had life leach, and combo mastery.

I only had trouble ( and this is a spoiler, so if you havent beaten the game yet don't read this ) defeating the wizard dude at the end, you know the pope guy. Everything else was a cakewalk.

No fancy magic or weapon skills, just a simple bloke with a beatstick.

Is there something else thats even more broken that i dont know about?

[Iki]

there was a ring (ring of brilliance) that does aoe damage around you. it used to stun enemies every time the aoe ticked. pretty broken, but it got fixed. I would expect this hammer to get fixed too at some point.

[r.kohout]

the most weapons(blunt, sharp, technomancer) have similar stats except tthe weapons from monastery - you make your build with leveling and the gemsand not like elden ring with upgrades (the whole A B C .. S-Tier scaling) so you have freedom to use the weapon what you want