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I'm going to try and limit this to 100k or less because I usually shield anyway, but when I do slash I need something better than my steel sword. So what does the community think?
I'm looking at strange great sword, heavy bardiche, and great axe.
Leaning towards great axe right now.
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Hard mode, 2 hander, under 100k = Iron Mace/Morningstar, cut weapons don't like heavy armor.
Normal mode = one of the weapons you posted.
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Thanks, I am looking at your spreadsheet atm deciding. Appreciate the input. So for later waves on normal like pikes and huscarls blunt weapons would be better there too?
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Yeah iron mace has blunt which is always good
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My spreadsheets are a bit outdated, but it'd probably still apply on huscarls+ going by native stats.
As a general rule, commando blunt/pierce weapons tend to have much less reach or are a bit slower to swing, so you have to choose between killing low armor enemies faster or high armor enemies faster.
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Thank you both for the help! This seems a no brainer as huscarls and zweihanders are considerably scarier to me than berserkers.
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And lower armored nords often do a lot less damage, so you can take your time with the slower weapon anyway.
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I can really recommend the Morningstar, being a hand and a half, so you can use it as a 1 hander as well, and because it has crushthrough, which is very very useful in both hard and normal.
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Both Iron Mace and Morningstar are very good weapons, I'd recommend em over any cut low price stuff.
In a shieldwall I prefer Morningstar because of the Crush and higher damage, while soloing or doin open field stuff
I like the Iron Mace more because of its knockdown flag.
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iron mace was the thing backthen before everyone started getting HWH