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Title: Power Strike
Post by: Glyph on March 31, 2011, 08:30:10 am
how many PS do you nedd to be able to crushtrough all the time with a long iron mace?

thanks for reading
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Earthdforce on March 31, 2011, 08:39:44 am
It's not just PS that affects crushthrough, but your speed bonus and the weight of the two things that are hitting affect it as well.
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Cyclopsided on March 31, 2011, 08:47:27 am
Above post summarized it largely. An un-heirloomed long iron mace will crush through 90% of stuff with 10+ power strike.
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Glyph on March 31, 2011, 03:31:49 pm
but for that you have to have a lot of strength
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Polobow on March 31, 2011, 03:34:08 pm
If you want to win from the overpowered manual block, you have to sacrifice something.
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Glyph on March 31, 2011, 03:53:28 pm
that's true...

but what is the best crushtrough weapon except the great maul?
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Engine on March 31, 2011, 04:07:26 pm
Don't be one of "those" people, Berethorn.
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Reinhardt on March 31, 2011, 04:29:11 pm
that's true...

but what is the best crushtrough weapon except the great maul?

The Mallet is just hilarious.
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Fluffy_Muffin on March 31, 2011, 05:42:12 pm
Mallet is just as efficient and its faster than the maul, i have a char with 6 ps and i crushtrough 90% of the time trough huscarls and everything
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: zagibu on March 31, 2011, 11:44:04 pm
Yep, I also like the mallet. With 8 PS, i crushed through 19/20 times or something...was blocked really really rarely.
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Gatsby on April 01, 2011, 11:53:03 am
Moringstar and barmace crushed through too?
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: BlackMilk on April 01, 2011, 12:25:56 pm
Moringstar and barmace crushed through too?
Barmace : yes
Morningstar : not anymore, no. they fixed it
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Christo on April 01, 2011, 12:27:13 pm
Yeah, MS got Shield bonus instead. It makes sense.
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Casimir on April 01, 2011, 12:41:01 pm
Everyone knows long maul is the most punk rock weapon there is.
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: PranceAlot on April 01, 2011, 11:04:05 pm
doesent wpf matter to since it also gives dmg? or is that just for knockdown..
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: MASTER_KILLER on April 02, 2011, 03:10:32 am
I actually wondered about this a while back so i tried a build with it. I made my guy go all str and only powerstrike, I think at lvl 31 i ended with 42 str and 14 ps. I used a normal long iron mace and crushed thru shields pretty often, can't remember if I ran into some1 with a shield that i couldnt crushthru. When it came to manual blockers, I was never able to crush thru except I think 2 incidents (jumping off a ledge down onto some1 and overhead chop them).

I think dmg on a wpn for crushthru might affect the chance even thou I dont think I see ppl mentioning it when talking about crushthru. I'm gonna be looming the long iron mace 3x to test this out anyways sooo...
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Glyph on April 02, 2011, 08:36:43 pm
excited to see the result! :o
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Fluffy_Muffin on April 03, 2011, 12:06:30 pm
When it comes to manual overhead blocking the crustrough is affected by the weight of the weapon with wich you block, overhead blocking your long iron mace with a 9 kg maul will work most of the time, you will crushtrough 1-3kg swords and such. Also the weight of the weapon with wich you crushtrough is important.
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Glyph on April 05, 2011, 04:43:41 pm
im already using great maul and with 8 ps i can crushthrough every single weapon/shield in the game. im quit happy with it, cuse it does high damage. though it is slow and short if you manualblock the first   2-3 hits you'll have the oppertunity to crush him. :P and it feels great to do that , believe me.
i also bought a barmace but i can't crushtrough with that yet, its pretty lightweight so not that good for crushtrough.
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Fluffy_Muffin on April 06, 2011, 10:56:44 am
I once picked up  a mighty barmace from the ground. (loomed 3 times) The skullcracking was legendary :D

But i would not recommend looming it now because it will probably loose its crushtrough in the next patch.

Perhaps the long irom mace will become the new barmace, but maybe it will loose it also. You can always heirloom a maul, and if you get tired of it you could just use it as a secondary measure for shielders, i used it as a secondary with my danish untill i got better at feinting.
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Teeth on April 06, 2011, 11:13:54 am
I once picked up  a mighty barmace from the ground. (loomed 3 times) The skullcracking was legendary :D
Never used barmace until I also picked up a mighty one. Man that thing is op, just 5 ps and I crushed through a lot and its lightning fast. A good blocker with a mighty barmace has pretty much nothing to fear in melee.
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Glyph on April 06, 2011, 02:16:02 pm
got a barmace myself too but with my 8 Ps i still can't crushtrough anything, probably going to heirloom my great maul cuse i'm not sure if the barmace is going to get NERFED or not. BTW when will the next patch be?
going full str when i retire again(with like 6 agi maybe) then i'll see if i can crushthrough with barmace.
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Peasant_Woman on April 06, 2011, 02:46:05 pm
On my pure Str character i'm at 10ps and still can't reliably crush huscarls with the barmace, I think it's only happened twice.

One thing that may be of interest is that if you hold your overhead for a second and then release you are much more likely to crush than if you just spam overheads. I tested this with a friend a few months ago on a duel server, he had morningstar I had nodachi. If he spammed overheads he crushedthrough maybe 1 out of every 10 swings, if he held it for 1 second and then released he crushed every time.
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Teeth on April 06, 2011, 10:30:40 pm
got a barmace myself too but with my 8 Ps i still can't crushtrough anything, probably going to heirloom my great maul cuse i'm not sure if the barmace is going to get NERFED or not. BTW when will the next patch be?
going full str when i retire again(with like 6 agi maybe) then i'll see if i can crushthrough with barmace.
Barmace will be nerfed, dont loom it cause it's a bit my old friendgy anyway.
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Christo on April 06, 2011, 10:45:05 pm
Barmace will be nerfed, dont loom it cause it's a bit my old friendgy anyway.

It looks like some medieval metal baseball-bat.  :)
Title: Re: Power Strike
Post by: Glyph on April 07, 2011, 05:01:55 pm
It looks like some medieval metal baseball-bat.  :)
the real baseballbat in this game is the studded warclub, it has the shape, material and finishing of a baseballbat!