There are minor differences: Axe is pure Lethal Damage with lots of nice knockdown/Knockup as additional mitigation. Mace is Smashing Damage with a combination of Knockup and stuns for mitigation. Axe Damage is a little higher, but Lethal is more often resisted.
I really enjoy my Invul/Axe tank, who was one of my earliest characters. It is simply a fun combo to be hitting lots of foes with the satisfying "SKRIINK" sound that the Battle Axe set makes. It has decent AoE with Whirling Axe, Penduluum and the narrow cone of Cleave. The damage from the set is more spread out among the attacks . . . instead of a bunch of weak attacks and one big hitter, all the attacks do pretty good damage but even Cleave is not an amazingly hard hitter.
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This part is pretty significant.
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Originally Posted by Local_Man
Lethal is more often resisted.
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Crowd Control has a much large area than Pendulum.
Crowd Control > Pendulum.
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Warmace is by far the better set when it comes to AoE damage dealing and soft control of mobs.|
Originally Posted by ThebigT
Hey, thinking of making a new brute. Would like go try mace or axe but which is the best?
They seem more or less the same is there an area were one is a lot better then the other? I want to kill things fast  |
Here's a good page to compare the two.
http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...etype.php?at=9
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The area isn't that much larger (both are 180degree cones, CC is 8ft, Pendulum is 7ft) the big difference between the two is that CC has a target cap of 10 while Pendulum has a target cap of 5.
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Originally Posted by Rothb
Crowd Control has a much large area than Pendulum.
Crowd Control > Pendulum. |
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Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood
The area isn't that much larger (both are 180degree cones, CC is 8ft, Pendulum is 7ft) the big difference between the two is that CC has a target cap of 10 while Pendulum has a target cap of 5.
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Two other things I think are significant:
Cleave does more damage than Shatter, but has a much more narrow cone (20 vs. 45 degrees) so the chances you'll be able to hit more than one target is much greater with Shatter.
Clobber does significantly more damage than Axe's highest-damaging ST attack, Swoop.
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Hey, thinking of making a new brute. Would like go try mace or axe but which is the best?
They seem more or less the same is there an area were one is a lot better then the other?
I want to kill things fast