Favorite items and weapons

[Moonbane]

I think ive played the game long enough to have a good sense of whats hot and whats not

My favorite weapons:
Wrenching Whip: Awesome reach and high damage. Outclasses Electric Whip obscenely
Spiteful Sword: You can easy keep the damage buff rolling with just minor incomming damage, very useful.
Torch: Pleasing fast and sets enemy on fire, and plays well with fire combo items
Blood Sword: Leaves a strong bleed dot on enemies, its gibbly joy if you get one with a mod that causes other enemies to bleed as well. Plus opening bleed combos.
Assault Shield: Whats not to love about additional mobility from the new charge it gives you? Plus you can knock enemies off ledges with it.

My favorite items:
Grappling Hook and Phazer. Very useful for mobility and lets you lay the kibosh on strong foes. Plus pleasingly short cd, their static damage buff making both extremely useful at low skill, which is my favored approach to focus on boosting strenght and to a lesser degree health.

Ive grown to prefer focusing mainly on melee, as i find its far more engaging, and allowing you to react more easilly to incomming damage/foes. Ranged weapons suffers from being ammo limited, not worth to carry one compared to melee weapon+shield. the shield effect you get is just too important for survival. And the channeled spells is just a no/no, you need to be able to move instead of rooting yourself. I used to be big on the cc items, i take them if i get them, but i drop them instantly if i get the hook or phazer.

I use to like all the turrets, before they rightfully got nerfed, it was just too easy to cheese by throwing turrets down in groups of enemies till they were dead. I know some people swear by the Balanced Sword, i find it okish, but it seems to have such a terribly short reach compared to other melee weapons. But at least its fast unlike the slomo broadsword.

[DeeVeeTree]

Broadsword. Especially when it has x4 damage. One shotted the vine rune guy.

[Moonbane]

I personally find broadsword far too slow, making you vulnerable to fast hitting enemies.

[Lord_Abaddon]

Torch
Spiked shield
Cluster bombs

Granted i like these because they are blatantly overpowered. The torch is top tier weapon now nothing compares. Spiked shield if used correctly destroys everything. and even a tier1 cluster bomb with a skill power build will one shot anything.

[in gros michel we trust]

me: phaser and assassin' dagger, secondary weapon will be frost blast or something to disable enemies

[Dan Baniel]

I really like assassin daggers with freeze blast

[phurgawtin]

heavy crossbow with "shots pierce all targets"
phaser + assassin dagger
knife storm with "when bleeding targets die, bleed spreads to nearby enemies"
magnetic grenade + cluster bomb

[Lilbeefwellington]

double damage assassin dagger with phaser

[SIR PEENOR]

assassins dagger and frost blast + lacerating aura and cluster grenade is ooooppppp

[Tofystedeth]

Oiled Blade + Frost Shards is great fun. Especially if you take the mutation that makes your melee attacks put bleeds on the targerts, and reforge them to get the +60% damage on bleeding enemies.

My very first final boss kill was due 100% to a rapier I found that had the 1% heal on hit affix.

[Gem of Temporarity]

Swift sword+any shield+phaser+velocity deliver the most pleasure to me.