Sword or Axe

[Ryan]

So should I use St.George's sword or should i use Metal-plated battle axe. so st georges sword damage is 72 while my axe is 42 I heard that axes are great for enemies that have plate aromor. Which should I use

[Knavery]

Although the sword seems to do more damage, I did level my axe skill and used the metal plated axe. It made a big differece. It has some good blunt damage. When using a sword, I could spend quite a few minutes fighting vs. the axe where I could take a plated bandit out pretty quickly.

[Bandy]

As mentioned axe or mace vs. heavy armor. I personally prefer maces that also have good pokey damage, Raven's beak if you can find it is worth looking at...

Speaking of which, too bad there isn't a better mechanic for switching to secondary melee wpn without going into inventory. There is for bow, so why not? Or have I missed something?

[Ryan]

What about the Baliff's mace that seems OP.

[Bandy]

Go nuts! Whatever suits your mood...

[Baron Khazadson]

I was slow to switch from shield and shortsword to shield and mace, but against heavily armored opponents it's only logical.

Axes are likely also a smart choice, but it seems me that the "headcracker" perk and maces go hand in hand, if you take that.

[Cypher]

I just stick with herod's sword, it'll slice anything... ANYTHING!

[BDK]

Doesn't matter, just dont use a shield. Shields are just awful in this game and limits your view for some extremely odd reason.

[Landsknecht]

I use my Poleaxe on everything. It offers the ultimate in piercing, slashing and......Oh yea, that's not an option in this for some reason.

I like the heavy spiked warhammer and shield against heavy armored opponents. Then go to Longsword against the lightly or non armored rabble.

[Hawk]

St george is the only longsword that smashes plate really well.

[Greywander]

I'm still new to the game, but for me the appeal of an axe over a mace is being able to repair it for free at a grindstone while still getting good blunt damage against armored enemies. As axes have good slashing damage, too, it makes it a good jack-of-all-trades weapon, which is good if you don't like switching weapons or don't want to carry the extra weight.

EDIT: It occurs to me that using a longsword and no shield saves you needing to repair a shield and also saves you the weight of a shield. Add to this that longswords are lighter than both axes and shields, and this makes them a good weapon for those just starting out. Their weakness is that they'll be less effective against armored enemies, and that I don't think they can block arrows as well as a shield.

So, TL;DR, axe + shield is versatile but heavier, and you can't repair the shield at the grindstone. Longsword is lighter and saves needing a shield, but is vulnerable to archers and armor.

[kalashnjkov21]

St Geogre + shield is the best loadout, good at everything. Combo is fun but not so improtant.

[Hawk]

Originally posted by kalashnjkov21:

St Geogre + shield is the best loadout, good at everything. Combo is fun but not so improtant.

You shouldn't use shield with longswords, you attack much slower and cant do combos.

[kalashnjkov21]

Originally posted by hawk:

Originally posted by kalashnjkov21:

St Geogre + shield is the best loadout, good at everything. Combo is fun but not so improtant.

You shouldn't use shield with longswords, you attack much slower and cant do combos.

But the long reach and highest damage for sword class is a nice tradeoff.

[This is Hunk! From Alpha team.]

I'm new to this game, is there any option for me to become a assassin in this game. Like 2 daggers or somthing like that?

[Jeff]

one dagger, and you can't stab people in the face with it.