Melee Warlock Weapon Recommendations?

[Raim]

Building around melee life/mana recoup has been really successful so far with having super high Vitality. But in terms of weapons which do you have the best results in? I could stick with the dirk+shield, but theres also really high attack speed and crit with dual daggers. Or even stacking strength for more armor plus two handed for better AoE. Theres so many seemingly good options so I'd like someone who plays Warlock a lot to give me some ideas.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Raim:

Melee Warlock Weapon Recommendations?
Building around melee life/mana recoup has been really successful so far with having super high Vitality. But in terms of weapons which do you have the best results in? I could stick with the dirk+shield, but theres also really high attack speed and crit with dual daggers. Or even stacking strength for more armor plus two handed for better AoE. Theres so many seemingly good options so I'd like someone who plays Warlock a lot to give me some ideas.

I am quite successful with using long sword for the parry, alongside other equipment which give additional parry. So basically all powerful and deflection.

[Raim]

Do swords give as much potential parry rate as the daggers? I dont know how they're calculated but sword would at least be better for AoE than what I was using.

[Piou le Chauve]

Kinda depend on your specialization i guess.

So far i tried soul warlock with daguer and shield, dual dagger, and kirq dagger and shield/book
All was ok~ish, dual dagger had the best mobility, dagger and shield the best tankyness, and kirq dagger+book best dmg output.
i'd bet that great axe would be great too, but in ng2+ i wouldn't recommand doing melee stuff other than warrior berseker/rogue since you'll just die too fast to sustain enough but i might be wrong.

[アンジェル]

Originally posted by Raim:

Do swords give as much potential parry rate as the daggers? I dont know how they're calculated but sword would at least be better for AoE than what I was using.

No. But I prefer the wider arc swords give. And the shield has proven extremely useful against the abberations in the final level with their sheer endless projectiles. For me currently a must-take for NG++