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Rather a lot of the new Guichard's Axes beat the pants off of Maneater, but keep in mind that they're all a time sink and a half.

Come to think of it, there's no mention on wiki of the WS Damage/Store TP axes.

Fix'd

anything occasionally attack # of times is a tp machine. same with merc dagger and k club. the 2-3 is basically doing 1.7 hits every round and creating more tp. its an offhand that war has an A in so you are going to have good accuracy and a high dmg main is good ws's. if GA was only ahead of Axe/joy a bit, then i bet axe/Oa2-3 would definitely be an option for higher dmg when you arent concerned with mobs tp.

Its almost as bad as endless VNM camping.

Either way, good luck. Freaking time sinks...

Axe/ridill will win out over axe/2-3x axe. Ridill combo attacks roughly 15% faster and ridill hits about 27% harder than the axe (ridill has 40 dmg and 2-3x axe has 30 but after factoring in fStr {I happen to have chosen 6} its about 27%). This leads to a combined damage increase of roughly 31%. The axe combo will get a 18 acc and 19 attack bonus (this is assuming full axe/sword merits). Since this only effects the offhand weapon the acc will be around a 7% increase in Dot and the 19 attack will be roughly a 2.8% increase in Dot. So Axe/ridill should beat this combo out by about 20%.

This hasnt factored in WS frequency which is very similar (almost identical since you get more tp/hit with axe/axe combo) with ridill actually getting the slight edge here (again, so close its not really a big deal).

Until the 2-3x axe's damage goes over 40 Ridill will beat it (gonna need about 44dmg or so before it truely beats ridill). So maybe in another update or two ridill will finally be obsoleted in DW builds, but until then ridll will win handedly.

For those that dont have ridill this should beat out any other axe/axe combo and is probably above axe/joy (not gonna work those out). So congrats Ridill owners, you can still use your prized possession!

do people know enough about the new bonuses to do a serious ridill/shield comparison to GA or axe/ridill yet?

Is there any solid evidence?

I'm not trying to say you're a liar or anything, I just want to see where testing was done.

Yeah, it was on BG. I'll do some digging and see if I can find it.

From what I have read previously, a magian weapon has to be equipped in the main hand when fulfilling a trial task in order to get credit for it.

i believe there was a bug at some point where equipping 2 magian weapons caused getting points for 1 weapon to count for both. i'd assume that was fixed, though if it's just not being talked about because people want to exploit it, maybe you want to check it out.

cool, just throwing it out there in case it's of any help.

Yes.

Why?

First things first: Both the DA7 and the OATT axe are Richardet's axes. That means they are Rare. I doubt you can even complete one of each on the same char.

Second, D60 weapon goes in main hand, not in off. Unless you have something that has even higher base damage. Right now that would be upgraded BST relic/mythic or Farsha.

Well, (Unless the rules of these weapons are different) DA can activate on the offhand as well, so you'd still be better off with the higher damage weapon in the main hand. Even if it doesn't, more often than not you're simply better off building for consistency than for chance. I'd personally rather have the higher average per Rampage damage than the chance for exceptionally higher damage once in a while.

As a question for myself, do DA weapons activate during WS? I know OAXs don't, and Damage X (like relics) don't, but not sure on the new weapons, like the DA. I guess I should find this answer before giving the previous advice, but still.