Warhammers, huh, yeah What are they good for?

[Kaeli]

Only Rhodoks can get warhammers. Now rhodoks can also get spears (as none xbow anyway) What would anybody make them choose a warhammer over a spear? Its slower, has a shorter range, les versatile and costs more money and weighs a lot more. The little bit of extra damage is honestly not worth the downside in my oppinion.

If you want a 2 hander as xbowman take the spiked club. Its extremely fast and quite good.

Do they get some kind of bonus against armour or so?

Your thoughts would be nice

 

[Archonsod]

Knockdown.

 

[FrisianDude]

Warhammers are ****ing bad ass.

 

[MaHuD]

Warhammers are ****ing bad ass.

They are indeed.
But does this mean you are in the beta now, or does that mean you just say it because you remember that from singleplayer?

 

[Nord_Jesus]

Because of the knockdown. When you're down you are easy game. 1-2 hit = K.O.

 

[FrisianDude]

Warhammers are ****ing bad ass.

They are indeed.
But does this mean you are in the beta now, or does that mean you just say it because you remember that from singleplayer?

Don't have Warband, I merely posted a reason why people'd choose warhammers over spears.

 

[HTAPAWASO]

Unless it's changed in warband, blunt damage does a lot more to an armoured opponent than cutting, and slightly more than piercing.

But for the number of people wearing armour I have to agree it's pretty pointless... unless you just wanna look badass.

 

[Mabons]

Warhammers generally kill in one hit for me, and spears, well, if you are close it can take about 3-4 hits to kill. At it's optimum range, two at most.

 

[Llew2]

Warhammers are ****ing bad. Ass.

Fixed.

 

[DuckSauce]

Club with spike is alot cheaper, faster and also has blunt though guys So why would anyone really choose warhammer over club or spear. Plus the club with spike has a nasty 4th directional attack for killing non shield users

 

[Johnny Morphine]

Unless it's changed in warband, blunt damage does a lot more to an armoured opponent than cutting, and slightly more than piercing.

But for the number of people wearing armour I have to agree it's pretty pointless... unless you just wanna look badass.

It's the same now, concerning damage. For some reason armor has the same resistance to piercing and blunt in Warband. In SP the difference was substantial. Why this was changed is beyond me - I can only assume they figured it would balance the game better.

Warhammers generally kill in one hit for me, and spears, well, if you are close it can take about 3-4 hits to kill. At it's optimum range, two at most.

I don't know why, but occasionally warhammers don't do squat against lightly armored troops for me. I have more success knocking people over with a club with spike. In conclusion I think the chance of a knockdown are the same for every non-polearm blunt weapon.


And concerning whether or not warhammers are useful, I guess you could ask Sir_Pancake_of_Gutbuck or one of those other Putzes. But the last time I saw them they were trying out pikes as primary weapons. Oh, and punching, and getting kills with it. Gotta credit them for innovation, I guess. Or at least an attempt at it.

 

[DuckSauce]

they were trying out pikes as primary weapons.

<3
Pike vs Pike duels are epic btw.

 

[Night Ninja]

IIRC blunt weapons knock down if they exceed a certain level of damage with one hit. Those attacks that 'bounce' don't seem to knock down.

 

[Tercero]

I dont know, but ive been knocked down even with the worst mace...

 

[Orion]

The Banhammer is the weapon of choice for all admins, of course.

It's good for banning other players.

From life.

 

[l3asu]

Edwin Starr says:

"Absolutely Nothing!"

 

[Gobblecoque]

Warhammers aren't very proficient in the act of, you know, not sucking, but wielding one is like having testosterone injected into your eye.

 

[Llew2]

Warhammers aren't very proficient in the act of, you know, not sucking, but wielding one is like having testosterone injected into your eye.

That ain't testosterone mate, that's my sword.

 

[Swadius 2.0]

Skull ****er AND an exhibitionist?

 

[Llew2]

Skull ****er AND an exhibitionist?

Me?