Your opinons on dwarf's hammer/soldier's mace.

[Maggie]

No shields, just weapon.
Interested in what you people think about it.

[The Mighty Mulletman]

I assume you mean the one handed/shield hammer for the dwarf. I haven't made much use of the mace but I've found the dwarf with shield and hammer to be quite effective against storm vermin with it's armour piercing while still contributing to horde management. For the empire soldier I've never bothered with the mace nor shield for him. I feel more comfortable with a 2 hander. I do have a 1 handed sword that I use on occasion but that's because I love using a rifle and the sword has the slay any size trait on the charged attack.

[oxymic]

Dwarf's hammer has disgusting atack cancelling. Mace is a little bit better then sword.
I prefer 2HH or Axe/Sword+shield

[Maggie]

I should specify I meant no shield, just 1h hammer and just mace.

[Warlord]

Instant trash. Does nothing better than weapon + shield or just a single 2 hand weapon. Maybe they should change it to dual weild because right now they are terrible.

[M1styczny]

1H hammer/mace/axe have limit of skavens that can be hit so it is bad. One handed sword for ES is good just like BW sword (same attack patern).

[Gaunty]

The one handed hammer for the Dwarf is actually pretty good, don't let these debbie downers dissuade you.

With decent a stamina based trait and improved push you can do very well for yourself, the basic swing is very fast and is also AoE, you can quite easily "swing swing push" and not get touched, much less skill and timing required than the two handed variant, not to mention the charge attack is armor piercing too. Quite easily the best 1 handed weapon in the game right now.

Read this guide if you want more info on the weapons.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=547702668

[Sai Fox]

I used to main 1h hammer/mace.

Great traits:

Regrowth (Normal) , Endurance, Devastating Blow, Bloodlust


Depending on your playstyle you can switch em out with:

Scavenger, Killing Blow (Normal)

[The Mighty Mulletman]

The one nice thing about the 1-handed hammer/mace is that left mouse button is your sweep attack and the charge attack is single target.

[K]

I would say the both are Nightmare type of weapons. In Cataclysm it would be hard to not get hit using those, unless you have a really good teamwork with a shield to help crowd-control on big hordes and when moving. I haven't really tried it myself but prove me wrong.

[Crimson Hog]

The bad thing about weapon diversity here - hordes.
There is a lot ot fun and good weapons, but you must stick to just some of them if you want a good game. For example - I would like to play as axe dwarf, but hammers (both shield and 2H) are the way better because of raging swarms.

[Gaunty]

Publicado originalmente por Crimson Hog:

The bad thing about weapon diversity here - hordes.
There is a lot ot fun and good weapons, but you must stick to just some of them if you want a good game. For example - I would like to play as axe dwarf, but hammers (both shield and 2H) are the way better because of raging swarms.

Just as a side not the hammer and shield is not better than the axe and shield, axe and shield is better because the single target is is armor piercing and the charge attack covers you in the AoE department, no need to take hammer and shield over axe and shield ever as you'll be pretty much useless in a close fight against any armored target.