Questions About Heavy Weapons

[Arenzo4]

I heard heavy weapons got hit hard in Melee 2.0
Are things like
Gram
Galatene
Scindo
fragor
Etc still worth using/ is there a mod lodout to make them at least pretty good

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Most of the heavy melee weapons were hit hard only because they got rid of heavy attacks.  You need to formulate your builds around something else now.

[Arenzo4]

i know they got rid of charging but i was curious if the above weapons can still be alright weapons
and if so what kind of build do you run

[Tali]

Well they peform fine, you just need a build for your playstyle

[Dalawantahr]

Before melee 2.0 you can time your attack with heavy damage as you know, suits very well with those heavy weapon. Now its just a slow weapon with combo. But I've seen a player wielding the Galatine with enough speed, but it still lacking imo. I think they should bring back charging to heavies. Melee is handicapped as it is, you want a slow one? Nah, I'll pass.

 

Currently I rather wield a fast criting melee. Dual Ichor and Swirling Tiger is perfect.

[TheCometCE]

The heavy weapons are more designed for big AoE attacks and in the case of hammers, knockdown/knockback for days, so they fit more of a CC heavy role.

 

Spin-to-win for the axes and greatswords, and both hammer stances involve heavy knockdown and stagger, ESPECIALLY on the Jat Kittag with the Tenno Space Program.

[Tali]

Just a note: heavy weapons will get a buff in one of the future updates