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Wouldn't swords be even worse in this regard against them? I mean you're reducing your physical damage which is more effective against undead while focusing on piercing that much.
I would never use a spear with a Rogue toon unless it had Hunting as well, then I might consider it. But otherwise my Rogue toons always use swords.
Quote from: Hector on 22 January 2018, 17:58:59Wouldn't swords be even worse in this regard against them? I mean you're reducing your physical damage which is more effective against undead while focusing on piercing that much.But swords have a lower piercing damage conversion than spears, so you'd say they be more flexible at dealing with piercing resistant enemies as well. They have lower base physical damage, sure, but that's compensated for by a far superior hit rate.Quote from: MedeaFleecestealer on 22 January 2018, 18:06:47I would never use a spear with a Rogue toon unless it had Hunting as well, then I might consider it. But otherwise my Rogue toons always use swords.Why though? Because of the poison damage that makes number of hits matter more that severity of hits?
On my spellbreaker i remember using a sword and a thorny maul which has huge pierce damage
Hey Laionidas,I'm sorta testing your theory in Act I Epic right now and it seems like your right With Ajax's something sword, can't remember the full name but its that epic sword with 80ish base damage 10% pierce ratio, blade honing's extra kick somewhat shortens the time required for undeads to go down.. The rate is still more or less same with the spear but you get more passive procs due to extra speed so I think this is an advantage as you stated in your post..Although, playing with no passive procs would be a better test I believe.. They kinda complicate things because once they happen, sword or spear don't matter anymore and every trash dies in two hits at most anyway.. Not to mention I also have Onslaught so everything undead or alive is slaughtered before they know it