Maybe it's time that we should nerf the hammers. I mean, they are OP'ed. Yes I use hammers, but I dont combo spam. Alot of users are upset at people who use hammers, and even a last shot kill with my hammer, they call me a hammer spammer. So maybe we should nerf it. I mean, my health in lockdown takes about 4.5 health bars and I die like in 2 - 3 hits.
So who wants to nerf the hammer?!
Hammers arent Op comapred to flourishes, poalris, etc. Skolver clones may die faster because they lack elemental defense.
Get ready yer vog cubs...
DEFEND YERSELFS!
"commence hammerstorm"
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I'm sorry dude, hammers aren't really OP, even that I don't use it frequently.
But they certainly aren't OP in PvP. It's really not that difficult to dodge...
I have to say, I LOVE my hammers, they deal more damage than DA against undead and constructs but is useless against gremlins and beasts. It is balanced and as a special reward for beating the expansion, it is allowed to be a bit OPed. It is easy to dodge though, and those that complain about it's PVP damage, equip some elemental resistant armor. Seerusly don't complain about people exploiting the weakness in your armor. You put that weakness there to be exploited! C:
As a weapon available to P2Pers almost exclusively, yes, it does need a nerf… it can deal about twice as much damage per combo as the brandishes, provided that you use only the first 2 hits. Dark retribution is balanced, although it does outclass all 3 of the other shadow bombs marginally.
Really in the last two weeks I have seen severals posts trying to nerf weapons in Lockdown, but none of them where the Flourishs. Every single one of the threads was buried under comments stating that there is no weapon as overpowerd in lockdown as the flourishs which are used in more than 70% of all battles.
Those toothpick skolvers seem to be trying to completely forbid any weapon in Lockdown they don't use.
And just to be clear on this, the hammer is not OP, it's just different from normal swords in having pure Elemental damage. Which of course hurts a skolver greatly, as it has only Normal/Piercing defence.
They think toothpick-shield-canceling spam takes "skill" and that the enormous range and sanic attack speed is not overpowered at all. Seriously, it could be even faster than a bloody striker sword! And there I was using it in hope it wouldn't even let them breathe with it. Ironically, I saw a post or two about the brandish being overpowered. Maybe on PvE, but I really doubt it is on PvP.
Same for the hammer on PvP, it's relatively easy to dodge. Basically it's the same thing as dodging a spookat, but its dash hurts you and attacks faster.
So who wants to nerf the hammer?!
No one. Not even Three Rings.
What I wonder is how can a MASSIVE hammer do pure elemental? Technically, that should be split with normal. That is what it should be like. Like, look at the T1 hammer. You aren't smacking anybody with anything remotely in the range of elemental. That's just a hard surface. If it's going to do elemental, it seems to make more sense to make it part normal. With the T3 one there has a glowy thing on the end, and that could cause some elemental, but all the same there is still some huge thing smacking stuff.
You all know that I graveyarded this?
Stop posting on this thread. It's been in the graveyard for a reason. :/
I don't want to nerf hammers overall, they're an okay weapon. However, I feel that the full combo is too difficult to dodge, and hence interruption on the second hit is nescessary, discussed here:
http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/60244
I dropped it since I don't personally own the weapon, and hence didn't know enough about it to really know if I was right.
Anyway, I don't feel that it's OP, but people tend to hate on it since it works so differently