Fave Witch Hunter weapons?

[Sneetcher]

With Saltzpyre's weapon loadouts offering the player such diversity in playstyles, what does everyone prefer? Is there a particular loadout that WH is expected to run in NM or cat?
I love my axe and crossbow; no worries about armoured opponents, and the axe has such an awesome rythm for 1-shot decapitations in NM that I find it hard to beat :]

[The Walrus]

I definitely like the rapier the best, charge attack can rapidly 1 shot clan rats in the head on NM, handles stormvermin well if they get close, and can stun lock hordes if you get mobbed and your teammates go down or aren't keeping things off of you. It simply handles every situation as well if not better than his other weapons. You can even use the offhand pistol to stagger or kill rats sneaking up on teammates with quick snapshots.

For ranged, I've enjoyed botht the brace of pistols as well as the crossbow, leaning more towards the brace. As many have said before, the brace of pistols is rivaled only by the BW beam staff for killing Rat Ogres.

[Sneetcher]

Never ever had anything other than a green rapier drop...I've had a grand total of 4 orange axes since being able to pray for new ♥♥♥♥. Maybe that's why I'm biased :p.
Tried brace for a bit, but found it too easy to sacrifice accuracy and efficiency for getting over-excited and spamming it like a bad. I just love knowing that with my Cbow i can nail a special without needing to worry if my elf can shoot :p

[Brother Frank]

In my opinion, the rapier and brace of pistols are his best weapons. I successfully completed Cataclysm with them, and they just work the best for me. It brings an incredible amount of waveclear and damage to the table, much more so than the other weapons. Of course, others may have different experiences, but those two weapons are his best for me.

[Sai Fox]

Originally posted by Brother Frank:

In my opinion, the rapier and brace of pistols are his best weapons. I successfully completed Cataclysm with them, and they just work the best for me. It brings an incredible amount of waveclear and damage to the table, much more so than the other weapons. Of course, others may have different experiences, but those two weapons are his best for me.

[Fork_Q2]

Rapier. I don't really mind about the ranged weapon, probably crossbow to pick off storms and other specials.

[Toshio]

If u play cata - only rapier. For long range - crossbow with reloading buff or pistols with penetration

[RaivokasMagma]

For what I've played, Witch Hunter's weapons feel a bit underwhelming. Maybe two handed sword is my go-to melee weapon and crossbow for the ranged.

[Delete]

Two-hunded sword or rapier + dual pistols. But on cataclysm Rapier is best.

[Mad Marduk]

Gonna necro. I actually enjoy the repeater pistol with penetration on it. And I really like the 1h axe even though i've only had base ones drop. It is quick, hits relatively hard, has armor penetration as well as head shot on its normal attack, and feels easy to get decaps with.

[Haggis]

Originally posted by Wiglaf777:

Gonna necro. I actually enjoy the repeater pistol with penetration on it. And I really like the 1h axe even though i've only had base ones drop. It is quick, hits relatively hard, has armor penetration as well as head shot on its normal attack, and feels easy to get decaps with.

The axe is my favourite too, and with backstabbery it absolutely destroys Rat Ogres, especially when combined with a potion. One of the best weapons against stormvermin, and 1 shots clanrats. Quick enough that you can kill 3 approaching rats before they can get an attack off, but after that you do need to dodge away or start blocking. Its obvious weakness is when the swarms come. Still its good enough in my opinion. The only thing I could ask for is the power attack to become an AoE sideways slash to allow it to deal effectively with the hordes - but honestly that would probably make it overpowered. The power attack is currently rather useless though, I only use it for fancy jump kills or to cut through the beams on man the ramparts/white rat/warehouse.

As I do pugs I still feel its important to take a special-killing range weapon, just in case. Normally people can deal with them effectively but I just don't feel safe otherwise; so I always take a mastercrafted crossbow - which actually does help a lot with the swarms (where the axe is weak) as the bolt can kill 5 rats at a time, so with the improved reload you can normally thin their ranks quite heavily (especially on some of the newer maps where many rats are all grouped together due to the tunnels, although its good when you find their spawn points/landing points too).

The axe has also saved my rear several times when people have accidentally pulled stormvermin patrols (or had them spawn on top of us). Stormvermin do not have a running attack so you can always get 1 or 2 hits on them, and then dodge back and they'll never catch you (so long as you do not run out of room). I've solo'd patrols on nightmare with it before; few things have ever felt so awesome.

[K]

Rapier is the classiest and works for me.

[Target Drone]

Depends on the map, what the rest of the team are packing and the difficulty level. I find myself steering to brace of pistols / rapier or on confined maps such as Castle Dracenfelds the two handed sword.

Having mastered the weapons its always good to try the other weapons, trait and trinket combinations. There's so many rats to kill....

[Vamilad]

Rapier + Repeater pistol is the most "efficient"

Rapier + Pistols is my personal favorite as it's classic

Hatchet remains "special"

Zweihander is a 2h sword... nothing special... quite boring IMO

[Malakai]

1h Axe & the Repeater Gun all the way for Victor. I can't even use the other weapons now.

de necro tho'...

[Pickle Bath]

WH reminds me of Monk from Diablo 3: he's a melee dude but in his own cool, unique way.

I loved the attack style and animation and feel of the Rapier. Then 1.5 hit and the buff to 1-hand weapons made 1-hand axe just super fun. Falchion is alright but I find the reliance on headshots a bit tiring. 2-hand sword is forgettable compared to his other offerings.