People use them because they're good. Really, really damn good and in my opinion, the most powerful weapon class in the game if you want something that can perform well in almost any circumstance in any given game mode.
I don't use them. Well, at least not anymore. At this point I'm looking for a challenge, and it's just something I can't get with two-handers. I'll probably end up aiming for a 12/33 swashbuckler once I max out my gen bonus.
Quiet...you're telling it like it is. People don't enjoy that.
Ok I jest. But there is some truth to this.
I too played 2h for 3 gens or so, easiest time i've ever had in this game.
What I don't understand is why this game rewards players for effortless kills.
Every patch seems to buff / indirectly buff 2h, why is this?
Well there are some extremely skilled melee players who use two handed weapons, I wont deny this; in fact I actively encourage watching such people. Unfortunately there is a much larger majority who use two handed and who complain more than most other players in the module.
And yeah, the irony is I complain a great deal too, but when was the last time I came here asking for a nerf because something stopped me lol-chopping my way through a mass of people?
It's like many situations in video games. You have to wade through a great mass of people who play up their affront at actually being beaten by someone better than them into a balance issue that may not exist; so you can find the few legitimate points along the way.
Some people here have great points when it comes to balance and those players have many different styles and builds of play and yes, many are two handers. Just a shame that those with decent points to make are drowned out by the masses without any.
But playing with a two handed character has been shining in the sun for a long time now and frankly they are only slightly tarnished these days by the rise in the archer population. Which is still nowhere near as close as that brief period when archers were the ones shining....where every man and his pet rat were full of holes.
Scary times. Of course this is just my impression.
Id say now it is best just to kick back, piss about and play whatever, I learnt the hard way what happens if you are good at something on the fringe. Actually that isnt fair, its better to say: I learnt the hard way what happens when you dont piss and whine the second anything threatens your play-style.
I should have fought, I was a passive fool.
