"Divine Avenger for the awesomeness of smiting the undead with the Holy Light of Divine Vengeance!
Blitz Needle for outright murdering Trojans and Lord Vanaduke
Polaris for keeping those pesky gun puppies at bay
Argent Peacemaker for a general purpose sidearm"

Dat lack of shivermist.

It's weird, right?

I use the old fashion Divine Avenger. It never led me wrong yet. It has great crowd control. The dps is great and the wide swings allow you to spread the love between all the slags. I mainly use the first swing because the second seing usually leave me open for 2 seconds before I can block.

"It's crazy good!"
^lol

Anyways. Thx Bopp.

@Bionec: I personally love my Divine Avenger over the other swords, mostly for the sheer awesomeness of its looks. But it also has great crowd control, superior attack speed for a "slow" sword (compare with troikas), and a charge attack that is just sooo satisfying to unload into a pile of zombies. Nothing quite like it.

Voltedge is probably pretty powerful (though I haven't touched it), but it's not gonna edge out the Combuster for damage, since shocked enemies don't ride the wave of explosions all the way like they would with the Combuster. The extra damage afforded by the shock just doesn't compensate, and it makes enemies stay in place. The latter isn't always a bad thing, but one has to be cautious with it. Besides, I think the OP is looking for damage, not crowd control, which is why I didn't suggest the DA to him. :'(

Then Glacius is better than Voltedge in that respect, right? Besides, with Voltedge, you get the worst of both worlds - you irritate party members with the zombies that ride the wave, and you irritate yourself with the zombies that don't.

Shock does AoE damage while Fire does single target damage, one tick of shock damage could multiply easily when monster close to each other (thanks to vortex) and it'll outdamage Combuster within few zombies amount (even including the fire for non-resistant monsters). I should say given enough damage bonus, you are able to interrupt any monster charge attack (also, other party members could help if you release charge after/before them almost instantly), while shock may help to develop the damage for interruption (not exactly sure but meh, too lazy to research), freeze has nothing to help in that matter. Outside zombie, shock and stun status effect could cancel monster charge attack (from mecha knight, almirian crusader, kat) unlike freeze.

http://forums.spiralknights.com/en/node/69170

Look at my post. Hope it helped :) . (Yes I'm sorry I posted on a dead thread)

3. Shock does negligible damage compared to a sword hit.
Like I said, shock could multiply easily. Assuming 8 zombies in vortex get shock together, that's like 1 tick shock hurts another 7. For each shock tick would does (in really silly calculation but you get the points) 8 (zombie got hurt) * 8 (1 shock tick per zombie) * 29 (actual shock damage) = 1,856 total damage.

1. A wild zombie times 500 appeared! >Blah< used Glacius charge! The zombies are all over the place now! 500 zombies used fire breath!
fire breath could be avoided easily, you just need to stay out their range, and the breath ended almost immediately. it's a matter of game play, not specific gear problem.

2. Freeze does little to no damage.
May need setup to let frozen monsters takes their time, I guess. Not my playstyle though.

3. Combo finisher knocks zombies quite a bit back.
You don't chain hit with combo finisher, unless all zombies in range just stuck in walls. Again, matter of game play since final swing brandish does pretty much the same.

2. During the charge attack when the swords pause for a second, monsters can lunge and still hurt you.
either you need asi, or take your time to dodge, either way works, I use blitz charge them all the time which is longer pause.

1. Much less damage than swords or bombs.
Have been with people chasing zombies with swords, I've one-shot them with alchemer/blitz needle charge before they can even swing first. (But a lot of times what happened is that they won't even let me one-shot by knock backing monster about anywhere, dragging the fight longer)

2. Pots are so much better.
Pots?

I would love to go with you guys to FSC... just to show off whatever I said on this >_>
FoV should be accompanied with vortex too I guess. Otherwise, it's almost impossible to keep up 4 successive hits per charge.

1856 shock damage is pittance compared to what Combuster can do. Given the same 8 zombies:
*Each explosion deals ~166 damage in FSC.
*Combuster yields 5 explosions.
*Without anything stopping them, zombies ride the entire wave. Hence, all 5 explosions hit.
*166x8=830
*830 damage x 8 zombies = 6640 damage

6640 > 1856 Q.E.D.

Another silly detail, and you forgot volt edge does explosions too? Once zombies got stuck immediately, it still eats up 2 - 3 explosions. So the difference is smaller. Also, the fire effect from combuster (on other monsters) which I am too lazy to count.... but it only applies on single monster and can't be renewed immediately.

Almost impossible, you could hit all 8 zombies on one charge with all 5 explosions, the closest you get is with vortex. And, some of them would be stuck which is no 5 explosions but the behind line would eats up all 5 due to knockback.

#20: your 166x8 initial calculation is wrong unless your combuster is somehow doing 8 explosions. but at least you corrected that in the last post. stop saying QED when this is hardly a mathematical proof, more so fun-stimation.

your main flaw in calculation is you're only factoring in just the initial tick damage. shock doesn't only tick once.

and thus in general you'll see combuster does better attacking small groups of zombies vs larger clumped ones compared to voltedge, but not enough difference to really abandon one for the other. i have both and use both, and neither makes me think "I'd kill these so much faster if I had [the other one]"

That's actually a really cool effect! I've never really seen that happen before.

I'm gonna venture a guess that Combuster works better with smaller groups, while Voltedge works better in larger groups. Both do seem to have a ton of power going for them.

I personally use Glacius. :(

My leviathan blade has a ASI VH UV on it. So use the Levi. Shreds up Vana's mask like a boss with the spin charge attack.

My combuster blade has a ASI VH UV on it. So use the Combuster. Shreds up Slags like a boss with the OP charge attack.

I own every elemental sword except for Glacius and I have used them all in FSC in fact I've likely spent my time heating each of them to 10 in FSC.

Currently the only advantage Divine Avenger has is that it's got a nice spread out cone AOE compared to the brandish family which is directly forward. It might in fact do more overall AOE damage if all three blades are getting use however each blade is less potent than a brandish charge. I find that the wide spread out knock back can sometimes hinder the ability to keep mobs grouped up in tight packs. In the past Id have said Divine Avenger is the best hands down but now brandishes have more potent charge attacks than Divine Avenger.

Now I don't own Glacius primarily because I hate freeze with a passion. It hinters vortex bombs and generally makes grouping mobs together more difficult however I suppose it is great if you feel like being lazy and just want to brainlessly spam charge and not worry about leaping zombies. I suppose this would actually be the best option for defensive players but not for those trying to deal the most damage. That's fine and dandy but not my thing...

Voltedge will inflict shock however the shock can briefly make mobs invulnerable to knock back meaning that occasionally mobs wont be hit by an entire charge attack. In large packs knock back isn't an issue since mobs can't push other mobs. The shock in turn becomes very potent when 5 or more mobs are grouped up.

Combuster has the simple advantage of being able to consistently hit mobs with its entire charge attack but if you like to fight mobs bunched up by a vortex for example then the knock back wont work anyway.

My vote goes to Voltedge but Combuster is an easy alternative for players that still have a lot of grinding to do in Lockdown. Generally you want to group mobs together with a vortex bomb and unleash as many charge attacks as you can.

Something else to consider is that I always have Electron Vortex so grouping mobs together for me is very easy. My choice in sword tactics may not be a realistic option for players without Electron Vortex but it is the best hands down and that was the question being asked.

Best sword. SUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

In what twisted dimension is nearly 40 hours not long?

Its clearly the proto sword,I mean its pro and is the strongest weapon in the game

For those without the patience to follow unknown links, Theirillusion's video is about Voltedge. Voltedge is a fine sword, but on the very first charge in the video you see its one flaw: A charge attack at point-blank range fails to kill a zombie, because shock prevents the zombie from riding the whole charge. Drat.

Aww... how cute.

Anyways, Bionec. I would go for Combuster, but that's if you're skilled enough to avoid the zombies. Glacius is good for solo if you prefer not getting hit and waiting for enemies to die, whereas Combuster does quite a bit more damage (frozen enemies don't ride explosions) with its charge attack. Think about it this way:

Acheron = Great against Slimes and Gremlins, right?

Combuster = Same exact damage on Constructs and Zombies as Acheron on Slimes/Gremlins. That is, without the fire damage.

It's completely unfair, but so is a lot of stuff in this game.

Sandwich. Except then you realize slimes and gremlins and zombuls all have different amounts of health, and attack differently. And that the Voltedge outputs more DPS :P

Ninja. I'm a teen, And I hardly have an hour a day to play. And no time at all on weekends.