What’s the best melee weapon?

[Bastila Shan]

So basically what is the most effective melee out of the chain sword, hammer and power fist?

[Targaryen22]

My favorite is the power sword. I love the flexibility of the different stances with it. My most used one though is the hammer as Assault is my primary class

[Bastila Shan]

I didn’t like hammer since it’s so slow and you need speed against the horde but I never leveled it up

[badger vortex]

fencing chainsword now it's fixed, great aoe with stomp and can stagger really well with kick or shoulder barge attacks.

power sword is better just because bulwark has great perks for close combat with getting free electric damage and an aoe parry

[Johnno]

I started with Assault marine and have still yet to level the power fist, and am only getting the chainsword leveled because of starting up Vanguard and Tactical.

Hammer all the way.

[PZJR ♦ Pendragon]

1. power fist
2. power sword
3. Hammer
4. Chainsword
5. Combat knife

[Odious One]

The Thunder Hammer is crazy powerful when you max it out. The extra range of it's shockwave with 12+ Damage and the Speed at 4+ with all the perks and bonus attacks it gets, it can easily take a Ruthless Carnifex's life bar down by half with 2 fully charged Ground Pound hits.
Though I did wonder why they didn't include the Power Axe?

[Bastila Shan]

Odious One původně napsal:

The Thunder Hammer is crazy powerful when you max it out. The extra range of it's shockwave with 12+ Damage and the Speed at 4+ with all the perks and bonus attacks it gets, it can easily take a Ruthless Carnifex's life bar down by half with 2 fully charged Ground Pound hits.
Though I did wonder why they didn't include the Power Axe?

Maxed ground pound perks can take half a canifax health in 2 ground pounds with any weapon

[Johnno]

Odious One původně napsal:

Though I did wonder why they didn't include the Power Axe?

Because since about 3rd edition a lot of weapons have been smushed together into "power weapon". Could well just have a selection that changes between sword, axe, and maul. Even lightning claws would really just have a rend/bleed effect and in this game it wouldn't do enough to warrant a weapon type I reckon, so could put those in as well.

Otherwise you end up with having to tweak their speeds and piercing/strength and the weapon variants already do that, you'd end up with either duplicates or just a lot of ones very similar, it's far more impactful to have a few very different weapons instead.

[L O]

Chain sword for me as its the most versatile and can be used on various builds.

Power sword is what I use on my Bulwark.

Thunder hammer is a lot of fun and looks great but so damn slow.

Power fist..more like a wet glove on a cold winters day.

[EvilZombie]

1.Chainsword easily the best

[Ishan451]

Bastila Shan původně napsal:

So basically what is the most effective melee out of the chain sword, hammer and power fist?

Depends on the User. Hammer feels the best out of these for Hordes. Chain Sword is a workhorse and Power Fist comes in somewhere in the middle of these two.

How much mileage you get out of it depends on how much you leverage the individual combos. I, for one, really love the Cannon Punch of the Powerfist and you can even buff its damage. It isn't as great as the Hammer for hordes, but Powerfist is just fun.

On my Assault i do not like the Chain Sword, because i feel like the other options are better, but i will pick the Chain Sword over the Knife.

I have a guy in my Premade that swears by the Knife over the Chain Sword.

Thunderhammer is a lot of fun to play, it is the most fun out of the ones you mentioned. Is it the most effective? Not for me, but not everything is about efficiency.

Odious One původně napsal:

Though I did wonder why they didn't include the Power Axe?

AFAIR, because they didn't have time. Much like the Sororitas they are "cut content". Which is why there is a Power Axe in the Beginning of the game and they want to bring it back eventually.

[Xarko]

Power sword and chainsword are the best melee weapons. Fist could be good if half it's perks weren't bugged. Hummer looks cool and does a lot of noise, but isn't actually all that good.

[Destyre]

Chainsword and Powersword. Powerfist needs some love, Thunderhammer is great but takes a lot of skill to use well. Knife is okay but I think a downgrade from the Chainsword. Very cool kill animations though. Fencing spec all the way. Block weapons are completely worthless at the moment as you are too squishy not to be able to parry. They need an overhaul imo.

[EvilZombie]

dude you cant go wrong with chainsword i been testing every weapon no matter what chainsword will never fail you it can handle AOE and single tartgets easily its the most well balance weapon

[Draescan]

Xarko původně napsal:

Power sword and chainsword are the best melee weapons. Fist could be good if half it's perks weren't bugged. Hummer looks cool and does a lot of noise, but isn't actually all that good.

Build for charge attacks, goes from " eh " to " okay this isn't bad " quickly.