Which weapon to use with Overpower skill?

[HunZolka]

Hey, I was wondering if anyone has some clue to which weapon type does the most damage with the overpower ability? I thought as bigger weapons are supposed to be better at crowd control, swords and daggers should be the dedicated 1v1 weapons, but I can't for the life of me determine how much damage might swords do, as it adds up from several hits, and different numbers keep popping up. What weapon type do you use the OP skill against a single opponent?

[Кукушка]

Solo target: sword
Multiple targets / AoE: spear

The two I use most of the time. Never been fond of these big two handed weapons.

[Denveldon]

Axes If u have at least two Elite Targets, u can just chain between them

[Zaphod4th]

> I thought as bigger weapons are supposed to be better at crowd control, swords and daggers should be the dedicated 1v1 weapons,

You're right, that is how the game plays.

[meh¯\_(ツ)_/¯]

Staff has the best overpower hands down.

-It receives all the bonuses that you have for normal hits (crit chance/damage while full health, for instance) and that's probably why it will deal more single target or aoe damage than any other overpower ability in the long run.

-The only overpower (along with spear I think) ability that utilizes * %Damage dealt restored as health* as well.

-Gives you iframes for the whole duration so its as safe as all the others.

-If you like playing with elemental damage, the aoe it does spreads it super fast on multiple enemies.

The only drawback is the knockback, if you wanna use it on a single target, best time would be when they make an unparriable move (or go red) so that they can't be knocked back and receive the whole damage.

2h axe is my second favourite

[dulany67]

I only use daggers. Ring of Chaos allows me to CC and avoid being surrounded.

However, overpower with a mace looks badass.

[Kabob]

Animation length varies as well - Been having fun with daggers in multi opponent fights since I can get into dodge animations quickly, but haven't really used the massive weapons in Odyssey. While playing Origins I used the massive weapons exclusively while on horseback for the 1-hit damage when 'jousting'.

There is a 'damage' rating post if you look a little bit where the author got the calculator out and did some research on skills/gear which is well done.

[EbonHawk]

It's going to be situational, as well as based on what you like (your playstyle). Just mix it up and test them out to see what works for you.

I like to run around with the dagger(s) active (ok, dagger in main, spear piece in offhand) and reserve the big boy (a massive spear I found that I really like) for certain situations. So, when I get into fights, I use the overpower of the daggers to take out one target (two, if they're close enough to each other).

If I start getting surrounded, I switch to the long spear so I can push people back from me, and do decent amounts of damage to everyone. You can even direct the line of attack by pushing in a different direction. It never fails that the person I want to hit (some more) either gets knocked back, or they dodge out of range, and I have to do a right (or left) turn and poke,stab,slash into a new opponent. Took me a few fights to realize I didn't have to waste the last 3/4 of an overpower attack with them.

I miss being able to knock the crap outta someone from horseback like in Origins with the larger weapons. I'm lucky to get even most animals down to 80% most times. The damage really stacked up with momentum in Origins. I just dismount in Odyssey and start swinging, because 99% of the time I'm going to get unhorsed in 2 hits from anything that attacks me while on the horse.

Edit: I forgot about the axes' ability to chain attacks mid-fight. I might have to revisit that IF I find an axe I really like. I tend to get hooked on just a single weapon for quite awhile.

[HunZolka]

Yeah I use the axes most of the time, mostly for the chainable OP and because it rarely bounces off from shields. What I am mostly interested in, is whether the swords or daggers are doing more damage against single opponents with OP attacks, as they can only target one in the first place (no chaining).

[Sparkles]

Driving me mad that I found a list a long time ago but can't find it now a few months later. Over power attack types with each weapon:
Heavy Blades is an overhead swing at your target; note can chain attack multiple
Heavy Blunts is a overhead followed by baseball swing; note can chain attack multiple
Regular Swords is running stab
Dagger is multicombo one target
Staff is helicopter ae swing
Spear is also helicopter ae swing

[rip kyren lacy]

axe and staff are both really op