Ok, this is a question I need answered XD
which is better? GF or OE?
At the training hall, a lv 10 archeron does 43 dmg per swipe to a scuttlebot. An edge of the same level does 39. However, when the enemy is poisoned, the edge too does 43. Does edge inflict poison with its combo? Is edge or Archeron better? Is it worth poisoning? Leave your remarks guys :P
I'm going to go ahead and beat bopp here:
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=site%3Aspiralknights.com+Obsidian+E...
Glacies gave you the super-valuable Google search link, but he forgot the other thing I would say: I compare all of these swords in the Shadow section of my detailed sword guide.
Acheron is currently one of (if not the) best swords in in the game. You see, it doesn't need a status effect to deal high damage like the Obsidian Edge. It just always does. An upside the Edge has is that when Menders are around you can turn their healing against them. But with the Acheron, you can simply kill the Menders in a few swipes.
Or be a clone and just charge spam the Acheron all over the place and kill everything this side of the universe.
Obsidian edge is more balanced and has a much cooler looking charge attack. The utility of poison is great with this sword and can help in arenas with menders. Like most brandishes it can only inflict status via charge attack. It also shows a level of commitment and determination, any idiot can alch up an Acheron eventually but to brave the Apocrea and the Harvester requires guts. Anyone who has earned this blade commends a level of respect, even more for the one who has the full weapon set.
Acheron just deals more damage, plain and simple.
Because I have no life and like to type answer every single one of these repetitive questions-
Acheron is better when it kills them, when you're not using your charge and often against smaller mobs when there are no menders around. Obsidian edge is better when there are healers, and when what you're fighting is something large. Healers will have a decent chance of just flat out finishing whatever you're assaulting if you poison it on the charge, and your team is likely to deal more damage against the larger mob than you would have dealt with the extra acheron damage.
I think I typed it more gracefully last time. Oh but you did ask about gran faust.
Gran faust is something else entirely. It has a much weaker charge that takes forever to prep up, and it curses you to boot, making it exceptionally poor.. so the only reason to get gran faust would be for the normal hits, which deal more knockback and can curse on the second hit. The curse isn't really going to win you any battles reliably, but the normal hits can work well for pushing mobs back as well as dealing crowd control. The only reason to get gran faust over acheron would be if you really wanted to capitalize on the normal hits. The idea being to either use your normal hits to hit as much as possible by clumping them or to bank on being able to whip out gran faust while gunning and push them back to hit them more with the gun, but aside from that, acheron "wins".
@Holy-Nightmare
any idiot can alch up an Acheron eventually but to brave the Apocrea and the Harvester requires guts
Except Apocrea was fairly easy and kind of dull after the third day of doing nothing but that one mission over and over for the aura/weapons. Unless you were a random, in which case by god it was the hardest thing you've ever seen. That's the real challenge, right there. Dealing with idiots or finding a party that wasn't.
uhhh are you aware ATH is basically depth 0? You can't properly compare 5★ weapons there...
Acheron or get out.