Maces and Slams Feel Really Bad to Use

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Alcyde#0348 schrieb:

The most frustrating thing is that, even with resolute technique you will sometimes see your big fat hammer go through the body of an ennemy without touching it, because it seems that ennemies getting up after a heavy stun have some i-frames during that animation !

And one more rant : the Giant in the giant grotto in act 2. This massive behemoth is hugging the platform, touching it with its chest, but i can only hit his hands.... Just imagine the Kitava fight with the same restrictions....

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Alcyde#0348 schrieb:

Agree. I play fighting games, beat them up and the likes, i love close quarter fights in a game. But the dev need to think the melee system out of the rpg box.
My main gripe with mace skills is that they have either a slooooooow startup, a delayed damage, or both !

-Stampede has the character take a pose for a split second before moving (this is an eternity in the middle of a fight !), then you have no way to cancel out of it, no way to steer (is my character too stupid to turn around while running ?), and damage occurs after you finish your animation.

-Rolling slam ? It's long to start and hit with the first hit, and most of the time you want to cancel before the second hit because there is rarely an opening long enough to hit with it. And there are other skills with a far better reward when you have these openings.

-Hammer of the gods : how does this qualify as "attack" ? It looks and feels like a spell, and it has both long sumonning time (wich you mustn't cancel !), delayed impact and looooong cooldown ! At least, damage is worth the wait...

-Earthquake : 4 seconds to wait before damage occurs, and the damage in question is disapointing...

-Boneshatter : the only good melee skill i tried for clearing packs. It's fast and direct, it triggers explosions, it's fun... Alas, the "crushing impact" ascendency bricks it, because now you can't prime ennemies for heavy stun anymore, they will get instantly stunned, so no more explosions.

-leap slam : what did they do with it ?! The character now jumps needlessly high, and provided you took some "reduced attack speed" nodes it will float like it is on the Moon. Worst part ? I got frozen at the apex of my jump once, about 30feet above the ground... then got skewered by spearmen poking at ground level... I guess coherence is dead at that point.... I should also mention the awful assisted aim that makes me jump at the nearest ennemy, not where i put my cursor.. Or the fact that, even with the option to "always attack witout moving" ticked on, my character will walk a few steps before jumping if i aim a bit far...

-Sunder : packs a punch, but very slow, and any support will slow it more. I would mind a bit less if my character didn't need to do a small jump

These are the skills i tried, and finally, my favorite is... Mace Strike ! it's fast, reliable and consummes no mana....

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Lonnie455Rich#2087 schrieb:

ya its a lot of work though. actual good builds just run fast and hit 1 button and are faster than all the work for warrior. brings me back to the triple warcry anc warchief earthshatter days. except you dont get enough aoe on poe2 earthshatter