Lack of certain weapon types

[ArnoldRimmer]

There aren't many battle axes or hammers, are there any plans to add more unique axes? I want to play a dwarf fighter with dual battle axes but there are hardly any good axes, and the best is on lvl. 14 of the unending path... it takes forever to get

Edited November 13, 2015 by ArnoldRimmer

[Ksajal]

There are only two unique clubs. Same with hatchets. I would fix them first.

[Teioh_White]

Actually, Axe has a really good axe pair, Rimecutter + We Toki. Pre 2.03, it was in the running for best weapon. Large amounts of prone immunity enemies have dimmed it's star somewhat. The downside though is Rimecutter is a RNG weapon; Azzuro sells it, and who knows if you'll ever see it. And We Toki can't be bought until Act 3, so for much of the game it'd just be plain old enchanted axes.

 

-edit- Ignoring quality of weapon, and looking instead at quantity of unique, it seems most weapon types have about 4 uniques now.

 

2 Unique:

Club

Hatchet

Crossbow

Arbalest

Blunderbuss

Arquebus

 

3 Unique:

Dagger

Mace

War Hammer

Morning Star

Pike

Pollaxe

Wand

Sceptor

 

4 Unique:

Flail

Rapier

Stiletto

Axe

Sabre

Sword

Estoc

Great Sword

Quarterstaff

Hunting Bow

War Bow

Pistol

Rod

 

5 Unique:

Spear

 

Just looking at some raw numbers, I'd guess WM2 will throw some of the non-pistol reload weapons a new weapon each, as well as a new Hatchet and Club. Of course, just because something has more options, doesn't mean it's better off as a weapon type than one with fewer. Sword's a great example, as it has 4 Uniques, but none of them are that amazing, where War Hammer can make a really nice pair despite having one less option.

Edited November 13, 2015 by Teioh_White

[Ksajal]

We Toki + Spelltongue is also a great combo: 15% bonus attack speed stolen applies to both weapons, you slow down the enemy regardless of critting or not, you steal all of his debuffs and add them to yours, Spelltongue has fast attack speed and on top of it all it has +5 to attack accuracy (so if you choose the Knight focus for We Toki you'll have the same accuracy for both hands, minus 1 for Spelltongue).

 

It doesn't hit as hard as Rimecutter, but you're faster and you have more control because of all the enemy debuffing.