Why does no-one use the great mace?

[OnionBro]

I have just started using this, and have played 13 duels, and havent lost one, this weapon has 650 pure physical, and then buffing it with sacred oath and blessed weapon or lightning blade, the AR goes to 790 with blessed weapon and SO, and 880 with lightning blade and SO. why does no-one use it? it can be buffed, and most greathammers cant, its fast for a greathammer, has perseverance, and looks so freaking awesome. Why does no-one use weapons such as cathedral knight greatsword, greatsword, great mace, black knight greataxe, millwood battle axe, and splitleaf greatsword? Theyre all amazing weapons that i hardly see in PvP.

[Pyramid Bread]

My guess is it isn't used alot cos you have to farm for it

[RdRStar]

it doesn't hit hard enough at 100. I dunno at higher lvls.

Probably the same. B scaling in Str is not great.

Try a "not great" mace. at 5 weight you get a lot more bang for your buck.

Don't understand why a mace get's better STR scaling than a great mace. FROM seems a bit lazy with some of this stuff.

If you play long enough you'll see more splitleaf greatsword than you like.

[Yallus]

I've seen a lot of Splitleaf Greatswords and Milwood Battle Axes. Also the Greatsword.

[Alzakiel]

Well i guess people tend to wear something that doesn't weight a tons ?

[Serrassi Effect]

Because it's generic and people don't like generic unless it's a straight sword.

[OnionBro]

I beat the frayed blade, LKGS, BKGS, gundyrs halberd, a rapier, a ss, and a few other weapons. So i went against alot, and still one, it just seems really good.

[OnionBro]

As for B scaling, mornes GH has a C scaling in str and D in fth. smoughs has a B, vordts has a B, dragon tooth has a B, and so do quite a few UGS.

[RdRStar]

It's not a bad weapon. You can definitely make it work. I had one at +10 in my inventory I almost traded you. Had to check and make sure I had the rock for heavy infuse :D

But the mace is better. Mace and great mace fill the same roll with hyperarmor/perserverance. There are better primary heavy weapons / greathammers to choose from with different WAs that add more utility / damage. Just carry a mace as a backup imo.

[Darth Invader]

It came down to a great mace and an evangelists spiked mace for a build I once did. Went with the spiked because it scaled to A str w/ heavy infused and it looks more menacing in general imo.

[Jaago]

Cause it's like vordts without the frost thingy. It's ok though, being a hammer and all that jazz.

[OnionBro]

Originally posted by Devil_Anse:

It came down to a great mace and an evangelists spiked mace for a build I once did. Went with the spiked because it scaled to A str w/ heavy infused and it looks more menacing in general imo.

Oh, man i tried the spiked mace once, it sucked. The damage was horrible and its one of the slowest greathammers.

[Darth Invader]

Originally posted by The baked bagel:

Originally posted by Devil_Anse:

It came down to a great mace and an evangelists spiked mace for a build I once did. Went with the spiked because it scaled to A str w/ heavy infused and it looks more menacing in general imo.

Oh, man i tried the spiked mace once, it sucked. The damage was horrible and its one of the slowest greathammers.

I actually finished that run with VordtsGH, but I did consider the great mace. It's just too blah looking a weapon. The spiked worked good up until the Dancer, but after her I shelved it for Vordts.

[OnionBro]

The great mace looks awesome dude, did you look at the design?

[RdRStar]

The fancy mace.

[Darth Invader]

Originally posted by The baked bagel:

The great mace looks awesome dude, did you look at the design?

I tend to prefer ugly, menacing looking weapons instead of museum quality pieces. My next GH build is going to use the quakestone hammer. Ugly as sh!t.