Whats the difference between the heavy eviscerators?

[Lycon]

And wich is best? The only difference I see is in attack pattern and for some reason one has a LOT more light attack dmg?

[Dreadnaught]

the best one is the one that suits your play style. Seriously. I find they both kinda suck because they aren't very responsive half the time. Have to mash left click like crazy to get it to chain properly, same with heavy attack, or it just pauses between attacks. Also not a fan of how chain weapons work anymore. If I rev it up and do a heavy crowd control swing, it should hit everything in front of me, not stick to one infested and then stop. It should only be sticking to elites/specialists if I'm doing a wide swing while rev'd up, rest should be sliced through like butter.

[Diakoptes]

one does a lot more dmg, has a far better move set, but is painfully slow even with max speed buffs - you need to be almost dead for it to be tolerable
the other one has a gimpy move set and attacks at decent speed

[junimai233]

The MK II has indeed a high light attack damage but it's an overhead combos so it's kinda bad for horde clear. The heavy attack is a repeating sweep-overhead combo that I find awkward for either horde or single target. The shove followup is a sweep so at least it's decent on that

The MK XV have a sweeping light combo attack with better cleave but it's slower. The heavy attacks is even slower because it automatically revs itself for sawing, but it's always an overhead. The shove attack is a single-target revving thrust that can OHK basically every normal enemies and specialist up to mutants (and trapper, but you can spec into it).

The MK XV have a different behavior with revving, where the light sweep will only caught specialist and elite on revved attacks. Except if you miss the revved the heavy attack, the followup light attack will caught up with any first enemy.

[Arani]

Such odd answers. Rn the best one is the new one. XV, I think.

It has an easy light spam horde clear, with perfectly horizontal headshot cleave for the first 3 attacks. Heavies are up-down strikedowns, perfect for elites. Its push attack is a wonderful combination of the push itself staggering horde, followed by an extremely strong stab that can pick out even an elite with 1-2 headshot strikes.

Meanwhile the old one needs a combination of heavy > push attack (far stronger than the rest), or heavy > light for horde clear, and has no strong strikedowns unless you count the 2:nd heavy which has to be comboed into. Most of its attacks are varying degrees of diagonals, and the hitzones suck so getting headshots nevermind cleaving headshots is next to impossible. Because it needs these odd combos of heavies and push attacks, it suffers from a number of issues the new one does not. Depending on your combo you have to expend stamina, have a longer wind-up with the heavy attack, and there's a bigger delay between the attacks themselves.

Basically the new one is an upgrade over the old one in every imaginable way. Thanks to its tremendous speed from pure light spam, along with increased dmg and cleave both when you use headshots, you can also trade off one of the cleave blessings that was basically mandatory on the old Evi for more damage instead. For example mine has Shred and Rampage, along with the right keystone for up to +20% attack spd & dmg, and the thing swings so fast that even massive mixed hordes are no problem at all.

I've only tried it with different crit builds but it's absolutely incredibly strong. With Fury of the Faithful for ult, and both the talent that reduces ult CD on crits, and the other that reduces CD on backstabs, I can routinely charge right into a mixed horde and recharge my ult in seconds. Since Fury of the Faithful guarantees a crit, staggers everything around you, and gives 50% toughness back, it basically makes me immortal in group melee.

[Bomoo]

Try them both and use the one with the moveset you like better.

[Nights]

I like the mk2 over the 15 because of the fact it doesnt have a target cap. With the 15, you can hit a max of 4 enemies with damage. Its really good with a marty build but so is a few other melee weapon including the new chain axe. It hits hard but that target cap really hurts it from being the better eviscerator