X/Shield Character
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ClawsandEffect,
Posted on: 2012-01-30 18:59 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
Smashing is definitely better than lethal, and War Mace is generally better than Battle Axe overall anyway (although not by a huge margin, if you like the axe better). I've played both a broadsword/shield and a mace/shield from 1 to 50(+3), and I found mace/ to be the better of the two.
For a /shield character, in the absence of other factors, I vote scrapper - they benefit more from AAO's damage buff, and they don't run into the damage cap on Shield Charge. A brute would not be bad by any measure, but would trade some damage away for greater aggro control abilities compared to a scrapper, which may or may not suit your desires.
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Originally Posted by Hopeling
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This, absolutely. It is and really always has been the superior site. Also, you aren't wrong about the malware on the wikia site.
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Mace and Axe will give you more mitigation via KD.
Broadsword has -Def making everything eaiser to hit. In addition it has Parry, which bumps up your Lethal and Melee defense by 15%. In the early levels Parry become a godsent, letting you softcap melee before level 5, if you can keep it stacked. Whether you keep it at 50 or not is your choice.
Go War Mace/Shield Brute or Scrapper.
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Seriously though, I play mainly Blasters, so it shocked me when the damage done by my WM/Shield far surpassed anything I could do on the so called damage kings. From level 1 forward.
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I also have a SD/SS tank. I'm sure an SS/SD Brute would be awesome as well. And SS/SD Scrapper if they ever port that set.
An SS Scrapper would kick so much butt...
Alright. I made a mace/shield scrapper.
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This, absolutely. It is and really always has been the superior site. Also, you aren't wrong about the malware on the wikia site.
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Also, are cohtitan and paragonwiki infected or not?
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I went WM/SD Brute. Its a fun set and it hits hard.
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On topic, though, I liked Fire melee/shield on brute. Interested to hear how mace is though!
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In the early levels Parry become a godsent, letting you softcap melee before level 5, if you can keep it stacked.
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The rest of your points are valid though.
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I'd go with Mace/Shield as well. It gets more high damaging attacks than broadsword, and gets an insanely high damage attack at level 8.
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Yes I do, but I set up on Freedom this time because of population. I tend to play late at night (I'm always awake 7pm->7am EST) and I need all the population I can get.
Fire and Earth Melee are also mildly weapon-ish sets, at least some of the time.
Returning player (again). Trying not to burn myself out with a ton of alts. I have a support character I've always wanted to play set up, already have a 50 blaster, and now I'd like an offensive melee character using a weapon and shield.
Brute vs Scrapper
Axe vs Broadsword vs Mace
Leaning Axe only because I like the Roman axes I see pictures of here:
http://cityofheroes.wikia.com/wiki/Weapon_Customization
If there are any other unlockable maces I'd like to know about them.
I'm mostly curious if smash is a better choice than lethal. I know they go hand in hand usually, but I seem to remember robots being common and resistant to lethal? What's more troublesome to play a lethal or smash set? I've also done a BS scrapper before and had endurance troubles so that's the bottom of my list at the moment, but I do like parry.