Btw matey is and agi stacker with 8 ATH how on earth he has a problem with giant slow ass no reach hammers beats me... even with your 1h weapon i have no clue how your unable to dogde it.. a friendly advice matey try attacking the guy with the hammer instead of goin towards him with your shield raised attack instead of trying to block it.. its acutally the only weapon ingame where u cant be lasy with your turtle build. In Other words dont wait for the enemy to attack like u would do with every other weapon ingame attack is your best option here.
You must either be lasy or just clueless if u cant counter a hammer user with my 1h alt i laugh at warbeast when he charge at me because i know how to counter it and its really simple just do what i said and you will be fine. Backpedal and swing rinse and repeat =?? = profit!!
ah you are a bright fellow aren't you? it's a shame you dont play on NA servers so i wont get the chance to rip you to pieces.
As I said in my thread about athletics, Athletics is not doing enough right now. what that means is that Mr Great maul with 3 athletics, is fast enough to remain in striking distance DESPITE me backpedaling. P.s. most great maul players are horrible and i just get them to waste their first swing at the air then spam them to death... the problem is when GOOD players take great mauls and stack as much agi as they can. Palatro is always my favourite example of this, he used to rock 7 or 8 athletics with a great maul (that was before they increased STR requirment on it) so you would backpedal from him, and he would run forward into your range, you would swing at him with your superior reach, he would block then line up an overhead, you try to get out of reach, you cant, you die.
anyways, crushthrough hasnt been much of an issue with me since this latest patch, the best news is that very few good players use great mauls these days. I wouldn't mind seeing it removed completely, but I also don't really mind it too much where it is, I generally just stay the hell away from great mauls if i know there is a good player wielding it, I can't backpedal out of their reach, but i can avoid going anywhere near them to begin with.