You might find my detailed sword guide useful. It includes a direct comparison of all of these elemental swords.

Can you make a profit selling FoV? I would think that the market would be over-supplied, due to everybody running FSC all the time.

I just acquired a FoV; sorry to say it got me killed a few times when I was experimenting with it. The swings are slower than one would expect from a 3-swing sword - it felt slower than using my Divine Avenger, and the hitbox certainly seems rather smaller. It's a fun weapon to play with, I admit, and it decimates turrets with its charge attack, but the amount of fire resistance necessary to make it 'safe' to use the charge and the slowness of its swings are putting me off rather.

Now if only there was a weapon with FoV's charge and WRH's standard attack pattern...

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My opinion on the matter, because I enjoy arguing:

FoV is only really in the game for novelty- most of what its charge does is better taken care of by WRH's normal attack. The only time its better to use FoV's charge over WRH's normal is when there are multiple targets, and you're able to hit all of them. That and the jelly king. Him too, as he bumps you back.

Their tactical niches are exactly the same (unless you're using FoV as set up), except that with WRH you don't have to wait around holding a charge- you get to use your shield... but the tactic is the same- find a time, and use the charge/2nd hit on an enemy. It is also important to note that ASI is valued more by WRH while CTR is valued more by FoV.

@Laraso: I managed to kill myself using the FoV in the entrance hall whilst experimenting with the charge. It was pretty embarrassing when Thunderbog turned up after that >.>;
It seems more efficient than using the Gran Faust to kill yourself, though, even with double max fire resist. Maybe I should experiment by committing seppuku some more in the t3 version of ATH...

@Fehz: I know I really shouldn't be doing that sort of thing, but I can't help myself D;

@Batabii: Really? FoV seems to be about the same swing speed as Sealed, which makes its combos rather slower since it needs longer to complete its attack combo. Rocket Hammer seems to take about the same time to complete, except it lunges you forwards a lot more.
I'd consider wasting my heat to be stupid, where other people in the party might have used it.
FoV's standard attack follows the same pattern as Levi, and gets the bonus of fire proc and elemental damage, but it does come with the drawback of the much slower swings.

Also, in general, I did a little testing and double max seems to cut the fire proc rate on the charge to about 50% or thereabouts. Still need to experiment a lot more with it, however.

Huh, the hammer takes longer than I thought, then; marginally faster combos than the DVS. I guess it just seems that way because nobody actually uses the full combo of the weapon... Thanks for the link, I guess I'll be rolling for ASI on my FoV in the forseeable future. Either that or looking for max fire resistance on my Volcanic Demo and Vog Cub, since the double max that set normally gets isn't actually enough to reduce the self-infliction rate to safe levels. e.e

I don't suppose anyone has a chart with effects of fire resistance levels on the self-inflict rates for the charge, by the way?

FoV is slower than levi, I'm not arguing that, however there's no way each swing is slower than each swing from DA/GF.

The one place where FoV really shines vs the Warmaster Rocket Hammer is donating heat to other players, willingly or not.