Chain weapons?

[Xerkics]

Is there any advantage to using chain over power weapons?

[talemore]

no

[watcherzero]

Just different weapon proficiency talents, e.g. one is +10 armor penetration for X type of weapon another is +10 crit chance with X type, etc..
Main thing you will be looking at though is the weapons armour penetration, it may do 5 more damage on average but if it has 20% less base armour penetration it may be inferior to the one your using.

[SpacePirateKatz666]

Originally posted by Xerkics:

Is there any advantage to using chain over power weapons?

Advantage of using chain weapons over power weapons :

(1) first of all chains weapons are a lot, you encounter them a lot in the game and there are variations of slightly higher damages then the other types of chains weapons so availability is one of the advantage of that.

(2) Early on you can just concentrate on chain weapon expertise skill to get more added damage to the type of said weapons.

[Hathur]

Chain weapons will technically do more damage vs lightly armored enemies, namely if you have chain expert. Power weapons are more useful vs medium and heavy armor enemies, but have lower damage against enemies with low / no armor (power weapon expert raises armor penetration.. which doesn't help at all vs lightly armored enemies.. chain expert gives +4 damage, which helps a fair bit against low armor enemies)

[Neoz]

chain expert gives +4 max damage IIRC, which means that 20% of the time, you'll be doing 1-4 more damage. Its pretty trash.

chain weapons aren't good, they are there for flavor, and at specific points in the game they will be the best you have, but not overly long.