Melee Choices

[MKDLMR]

Right now I'm debating between these three:

Scindo Prime w/ Tempo Royale

Nikana Prime w/ Blind Justice 

Prisma Skana w/ Crimson Dervish & Bright Purity

All builds are the same, dropping Life Strike for Bright Purity on the Skana. Which do you think is "the best" for a general use melee weapon (not a blood rush/body count build)?

Thanks! 

[Naftal]

Scindo is the strongest of the three.

However I assume you're going to use quick melee since you're not using combo counter mods. Blind Justice changes the quick melee attacks of nikanas and you might find the mobile swings better.

There's no point in using any single sword with quick melee.

[MKDLMR]

11 minutes ago, Naftal said:

There's no point in using any single sword with quick melee.

What do you mean by that? 

Yes, I plan to use quick melee and melee to regain health primarily. 

[Naftal]

24 minutes ago, MKDLMR said:

What do you mean by that? 

Yes, I plan to use quick melee and melee to regain health primarily. 

Any power single swords have is in the combos, which can't be used with quick melee. Bright purity proc and channeling to use life strike also don't work.

[(PSN)CoolD2108]

No crit build?

Nikana prime then for raw dps, scindo w tempo for utility.

The d nikana was the best weapon in the days before body count made it's way into the game. The nikana p is a slightly better version so there you go.

 

It's somewhat of a waste nowadays tho to play melee without these mods....you loose sooooo much dps by not using body count+blood rush...

[MKDLMR]

Okay, let's say I do a crit build and include body count and blood lust with only swapping out Life Strike for Bright Purity what then? 

Keep in mind they all have a base 20% crit chance. 

[(PSN)CoolD2108]

Scindo~ this weapon is slower BUT it has higher multipliers on its stances. TR scindo is in fact kinda balanced with the nikana but CW Scindo is among the strongest melee weapons in the game, only rivaled by War (worse damage type but slightly higher basedamage, speed and range) in the same category and daggers with covert lethality (nothing beats the dps of a weapon that is able to onehit in a world where endless scaling is a thing ~)