I dont understand the point of weapons at all!

[Blindninja]

Please help me i just started playing today. Ive made about 5 toons so far and i cant figure out why we even have weapon skills at all.

I start out really liking the game. and as im leveling and unlocking new powers (ill use ice as an example) eventually my weapon combos get weaker and weaker in comparison. By level 5 i can literally spam the very first power i get at level 1 over and over again and it will do more damage than any combo ive used points to unlock. My power regen is eneough by level 5 that i dont run out of resources to just spam away, so why should i ever throw a punch at all?! What am i doing wrong!!??

Ive played a lot of mmos. And most of them are very straight forward on stuff like this. The answer has to be something simple and im so aggrevated because ive googled this all day today and cant get a simple answer. If all these weapon combos barely do any damage then why are they there? Usually there is a definitive thing between caster and melee builds but im not seeing that here.

[Lynx]

Weapon is part of gear, so you have to keep it.

Even if you use Superpowered focus which doesn't rely on weapons to regenerate power, sometimes you could use your weapon to interrupt enemy's attacks and lunge or even deal at least some damage when you're low on power.
However many people also use Hybrid and Weapons Expert focuses and spec skill points into precision, they use their weapons to regen power and deal damage. They only use some superpowers like DoTs/short burst attacks/shields and Weapon Buff which is necessary for weapon users. I think for all powersets weapon buff is unlocked at lvl20.
Point is, you can't just use your weapons to deal main portion of damage without speccing accordingly, while superpowered path is way more easier to handle.

Range and melee builds don't just differentiate as abilities vs weapons. You can build a melee loadout with only superpowers in it, you can go ranged with weapons.

True that some things haven't been perfectly balanced, but hopefully we're getting there.

Part from lvl1 to lvl30 has been significantly nerfed compared to what we used to have years ago.
You shouldn't judge the whole game just by leveling up part. I'd suggest to get to lvl30 and unlock all abilities, then you can decide what you like to use the most.

[LadyLightning]

Weapons can also make enemies fall down with the interrupt/blockbreak/block system.
Aditionally you can unlock Weapon Mastery, which will make even more powerful combos available.

[𝒦.ℒ.ℬ.]

LOL. pretty good point to be honest, Most people spec might and health, and have some SP in weapon mastery but thats about, I only use weapon mastery if the troll is trash or just recovering powers.

[Blindninja]

thanks for the in depth responses yall!!