No melee weapon can compare to the Power Sword after several nerfs

[Dundo]

Title, there is no better melee weapon in game at the moment. Force Swords are garbage, Chain weapons lock you into a long ass animation, knife is a gimmick

[Caramel_Clown]

I wouldn't even put power sword anywhere close to top of the list. But it's easy to use, so there's that I suppose.

[Dr. Merkwürdiglieben]

I think it comes down to taste.

Right now I prefer the Chainsword and Chainaxe, but I used to love and still own a top tier Power Sword and still got it as a backup, but the nerfs and constant animation changes spoiled it for me.

[DotNL]

knife is way better lol because when you are fast enough you do not have to kill anything. Just finish 6 or 7 maps per hour ezpz. The only thing that is a good measurement is how much xp/ordo/materials you farm per hour. Powersword cant even do half of what a knife does.

[Germaine's Bra]

Originally posted by Clodhopper:

Originally posted by ==Alduran==:

Chainsword is better in 90% of melee. If you shred a dangerous enemy just dodge, that will cancel the saw animation and you still do more dmg than the Power sword.

What roll/build? Chainaxe can definitely do this but lacks horde clearing capabilities, keep in mind that you are still locked onto a single target while PS can hit multiple with Brutal

Outside of XV on Zealot I've been unable to get one handed chainswords to perform at a level the power cycler ps does, and even then XV doesnt have the power output ps does

The standard Chain Axe works fine for Killing masses but you have to the correct blessings (Headtaker, and Slaughterer) and you have to do heavy Attacks.

[Oxymoron]

Knife is far from gimmick you can do some serious damage with it once you get used to it

[Qau'lthir]

Originally posted by DotNL:

knife is way better lol because when you are fast enough you do not have to kill anything. Just finish 6 or 7 maps per hour ezpz. The only thing that is a good measurement is how much xp/ordo/materials you farm per hour. Powersword cant even do half of what a knife does.

The knife, being grossly overtuned, is going to get nerfed eventually. You, and everyone else, might as well get used to using a normal weapon before that.

[Titan]

Personally my go to sword in Darktide is "Catachan Mk IV"
Force swords are great but I am far more likely to get overrun holding a forcesword than i am with trusty "Catachan Mk IV" Granted Crushers are a challege that'll likely be dealt with by either ability, ranged attack, Grenades or Simply having to Grind through em. (Not an issue in a 1v1 or 2v1 I admit if i don't have Grenadess or sspace to move, 3+ Crushers I expect to go down)

Atm I think the best melee weapon on the Psyker is "Maccabian Mk IV"
As it is switft to deal with hordes and it's stabs are Great to deal with Ragers while still doing decently vs Carapaced Armor.

[Titan]

Originally posted by Qau'lthir:

Originally posted by Burba:

You convinced me. I will give the Power Sword another shot.

If I may offer a piece of unsolicited advice on the subject of Blessings: Buying regular gray weapons which come with at least a 360+ base rating seem to result in favourable outcomes when farming for tier 4 Blessings. Just make sure that you only upgrade it to the blue quality since going all the way up to gold is, usually, a massive waste of resources for Blessing farming.

Having said that: I hope that you manage to find Power Cycler soon.

This is True, a great piece of advice to not waste Plasteel.

Though if it is more ikely to get tier 4 or not I can't say, as it is far harder by the end game to get the tier 1 and 2 blessings given it seem impossible to make weapons below 300 rating.

[Albeey]

Please dont downplay Deimos Force swords -- its H2 staggers everything, maulers, reapers and crushers included.

[Qau'lthir]

Originally posted by Titan:

Originally posted by Qau'lthir:

If I may offer a piece of unsolicited advice on the subject of Blessings: Buying regular gray weapons which come with at least a 360+ base rating seem to result in favourable outcomes when farming for tier 4 Blessings. Just make sure that you only upgrade it to the blue quality since going all the way up to gold is, usually, a massive waste of resources for Blessing farming.

Having said that: I hope that you manage to find Power Cycler soon.

This is True, a great piece of advice to not waste Plasteel.

Though if it is more ikely to get tier 4 or not I can't say, as it is far harder by the end game to get the tier 1 and 2 blessings given it seem impossible to make weapons below 300 rating.

Yeah, that can become a problem for true completionists out there.

I hope that all of the issues with getting high level blessings, as well as low level ones, gets fixed in the Itemization update.

[Domz_commando]

PHHHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA... I'm playing the Kreiger, that destroys absolutely everything with his shovel. There no "good" or "bad" weapons, only skill issues of some kids.

[Solus]

Originally posted by DotNL:

knife is way better lol because when you are fast enough you do not have to kill anything. Just finish 6 or 7 maps per hour ezpz. The only thing that is a good measurement is how much xp/ordo/materials you farm per hour. Powersword cant even do half of what a knife does.

Ahhahaha! says you (aka nobody). Many other nobodies say that the only good measurement is how many enemies you kill per hour.

Also i'm sure that there are many more "the only good measurements" out there. You know opinions, arseholes and the saying.

ps. It's hilarious that you are pathetically trying to pass your twisted speed - broken knife addicted gameplay as normal in every opportunity you get. Try harder.

[DLCI]

Originally posted by Qau'lthir:

The "low mobility" of the Power Sword is mitigated by the fact that normal, unpowered, attacks stagger targets more than the comparable weapon, the Force Sword, does. The "problems" most people seem to be having in this thread is that they can't just spam left click and dodge forever like you can do with the knife.

umm...

the powersword has slightly more stagger per hit than a devil's claw sword or a shovel and it swings a fair bit slower

for body/weakspot
powersword MK III and MK VI 7/10 light 12/19 heavy
devil's claw 6/12 light 9/20 heavy
shovel 5/8 light 17/22 heavy

i can respect your opinion about how powerful it is, even if I don't agree, but claiming unactivated powerswords have higher than average stagger is simply not mathematically true

[Forest]

Heh heh chainaxe go bbbbbbrrrrrrrrrr

[Qau'lthir]

Originally posted by DLCI:

Originally posted by Qau'lthir:

The "low mobility" of the Power Sword is mitigated by the fact that normal, unpowered, attacks stagger targets more than the comparable weapon, the Force Sword, does. The "problems" most people seem to be having in this thread is that they can't just spam left click and dodge forever like you can do with the knife.

umm...

the powersword has slightly more stagger per hit than a devil's claw sword or a shovel and it swings a fair bit slower

for body/weakspot
powersword MK III and MK VI 7/10 light 12/19 heavy
devil's claw 6/12 light 9/20 heavy
shovel 5/8 light 17/22 heavy

i can respect your opinion about how powerful it is, even if I don't agree, but claiming unactivated powerswords have higher than average stagger is simply not mathematically true

It's not negligible, especially with Slaughterer. Using a combination of light attacks, heavy attacks and the usual block, push combo leads to excellent crowd control against Unarmoured, Flak Armoured and Infected enemies.

I'm not saying it's as powerful as, say, the Thunder Hammer or other dedicated stagger weapons, but it actually is effective enough to play a part in how many times you actually need to dodge attacks as opposed to weapons where you constantly need to dodge due to the weapon not having any stagger what so ever.

These two factors combined leads to the low mobility of the Power Sword not really being much of an issue in the hands of someone who has learned to play to the weapon's strengths rather than idealizing one aspect of the weapon, namely: The activation.