What's even the point of the power fist?

[Terron]

Like seriously, from a gameplay perspective, this weapon is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ useless.

In the lore power fists are some of the most devastating melee weapons, but more so for damaging vehicles and constructs or bigger foes and monsters. They are definitely not made for horde clearing, considering their minimal range.

The weapon is slow, has piss poor speed, the combos are frankly ass and it's only selling point is the charge up. Yet you cant fully utilize the charge up without getting torn to pieces of a horde of minoris. It even sucks against minoris because of how slow it is, whichc makes it unviable at higher difficulties.

It is alright when using it as Bulwark, but for Assault, everything the powerfist does, the Thunder Hammer does better.

I am under the impression that Saber didn't really knew what they were doing with this weapon.

[zmanbuilder]

I have figured it out, the power fists damage does not increase the longer you charge it, it is mostly for delaying your next charge attack.

So if you only spam the charge attack combo, it will start to feel right, as it does stagger majoris rather well on charge attacks, and leaves less openings than the thunder hammer, but you lose out on aoe.

[Sloths]

You're right for assault I do think the hammer is much better. For bulwark and assault the power fist is good in the amount of stagger it does and can do all the combos with one attack chain. Plus the combat animations aren't that long so gives you decent time to still be able to dodge out of the way if you do get an orange circle. The hammer have to be careful with the heavy attacks and the timing of them.

[w10-20-2000]

I have no idea how you people use melee weapons, All i use in melee is parry. Sometimes i dodge. The only time i deal pure melee damage is to the bosses, and in that regard i can't seem to feel much difference.

Maybe i played assault too little but as bulwark i don't care what weapon i use, power sword, fist, chainsword. I will still do most of my damage through parry

[zmanbuilder]

Originally posted by w10-20-2000:

I have no idea how you people use melee weapons, All i use in melee is parry. Sometimes i dodge. The only time i deal pure melee damage is to the bosses, and in that regard i can't seem to feel much difference.

Maybe i played assault too little but as bulwark i don't care what weapon i use, power sword, fist, chainsword. I will still do most of my damage through parry

Playing assault with a block type melee weapon really forced me to learn the ins and outs of melee.

[w10-20-2000]

Originally posted by zmanbuilder:

Originally posted by w10-20-2000:

I have no idea how you people use melee weapons, All i use in melee is parry. Sometimes i dodge. The only time i deal pure melee damage is to the bosses, and in that regard i can't seem to feel much difference.

Maybe i played assault too little but as bulwark i don't care what weapon i use, power sword, fist, chainsword. I will still do most of my damage through parry

Playing assault with a block type melee weapon really forced me to learn the ins and outs of melee.

Sounds painful brother, i hope it's not terminal and when they release block weapons rework you get better

[Sloths]

Originally posted by w10-20-2000:

I have no idea how you people use melee weapons, All i use in melee is parry. Sometimes i dodge. The only time i deal pure melee damage is to the bosses, and in that regard i can't seem to feel much difference.

Maybe i played assault too little but as bulwark i don't care what weapon i use, power sword, fist, chainsword. I will still do most of my damage through parry

Nothing wrong with that tactic parry is really strong. I do parry when I can, but rely on my melee attacks first. I use the melee weapon attacks for control along with doing more damage. With the assault for example those light cleaving hammer swings along with rotating the camera can clear out whole sections of minoris and still leaving you able to react to orange dodge circles. Depending on the weapon you can also almost stunlock a majoris until it is dead through melee attacks(knowing the weapon's combos and light/heavy attacks).

[w10-20-2000]

Originally posted by Sloths:

Originally posted by w10-20-2000:

I have no idea how you people use melee weapons, All i use in melee is parry. Sometimes i dodge. The only time i deal pure melee damage is to the bosses, and in that regard i can't seem to feel much difference.

Maybe i played assault too little but as bulwark i don't care what weapon i use, power sword, fist, chainsword. I will still do most of my damage through parry

Nothing wrong with that tactic parry is really strong. I do parry when I can, but rely on my melee attacks first. I use the melee weapon attacks for control along with doing more damage. With the assault for example those light cleaving hammer swings along with rotating the camera can clear out whole sections of minoris and still leaving you able to react to orange dodge circles. Depending on the weapon you can also almost stunlock a majoris until it is dead through melee attacks(knowing the weapon's combos and light/heavy attacks).

I dislike sluggishness of attack animations feels like you are moving through mud, so i use ONLY parry, if i get carnifex as a boss encounter, then i can never swing melee for a whole op. Works better in my experience. Enemy AI gets really confused when you don't attack and for some reason they take turns to strike at you, so you get enough time for parry. Minoris give good armor on parry if you are lucky you can replenish all 3 cells.

I have leveled assault to max, but most of the time i used charged hammer strike for groups of majoris or ground pound for minoris. I just don't like combo system, so any tactic that avoids it is a good one for me

[Mr. Paintwolf]

outside of its just a melee weapon to differ from the others for the sake of the gameplay balance of "heavy but strong" (thunder hammer isnt available to all melee changing classes sadly :c)


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[Infrasound]

cant wait for a str3 chainfist lol. :>

[Krog]

I personally suck with the power fist but I have seen some people use it that were absolute beast with it. When I first saw someone use it to its full potential I was confused what weapon they were using.