Merton's firepoker deserves an honorable early game mention. It's not great and you'll outgrow it quickly, though it isn't half bad. Also Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas to you as well! I didn't mention it because Its an early game weapon so I didn't even think about it. But totally agree with you. Its my favorite early game weapon tbh.
I have refrained from putting these on any of my top 5s because weapon types in general deserve their own top 5 sort of. The enchantment is always good regardless of anything so its a bit harder to place it on a ranking scale. That being said, they are always a great option. Probably better than some uniques.
When i first tried hardcore mode in outward. The skycrown mace as well as wind infuse just yeeted to big enemies with ease. The skycrown is just the best vanilla-outward weapon.
It has a ridiculous amount of impact for how fast it swings. And its only downside is its length which doesn't even matter once you learn how to use it properly.
I don't like decay damage weapons, because of corruption enemies to be often enemies and strongest ones. Until caldera though. For same reason, one of first good weapons I craft gold lich ones. :)
Lightning and ethereal have a significant power boost in Outward compared to the others. Lighting has the one weakness of the spire of light, but that really is about it. Most things take good lightning damage especially in Caldera. Ethereal trashes always except for the ancient dweller which is weak to lighting. Honestly carrying a lightning and ethereal weapon around make the game easy. Lots of enemies are very resistant to decay although humans die to it instantly which is funny. And then cold is the odd man out being good but harder to buff and nothing being particularly weak or strong to it other than Wendigos. So long story short... decay is the easiest to buff but harder to use.
@SheenShots that makes the rune mages one of strongest. Lighting distant spell and close range pure ethereal weapons. I almost always enchant my weapons for raw damage. 😀
This is one of the Top 5 Top 5 videos. Point of fact about the marble morningstar, it is one of the few main-hand weapons that can easily inflict confusion. This makes it valuable for dagger builds which want to inflict pain and confusion to get that huge damage multiplier, without fiddling with weapon slots in the heat of battle. Maelstrom Blade is better for this but it's an endgame craftable so it won't be available for most of the game. Edit: also Mace Infusion will imbue your dagger as well.
Something I only realized after recording the footage is that the marble Morningstar is also much longer than Skycrown mace. There were several situations in the footage where I could easily hit and enemy after staggering them backward with the Morningstar. however, Skycrown is just short enough that it often hits enemies out of your range when it staggers. So the Morningstar is kind for that impact damage even though Skycrown looks better on paper. Kind of cool.
It's a very fun element. Lots of the most powerful artifacts deal cold damage such as the frozen chakram. There just aren't nearly as many of them as there are decay or fire.
I’m using Mace of seasons with hexmage/totem and blood infuse. Blood infuse is very late game and overkill but not necessary. What are your thoughts on elemental weakness with totem/hexmage and possibly cabal hermit? Blood sigil might also be something to consider.
Great vid, as always. I enjoy these top 5's. You mentioned the tsar mace for a physical build combined with a fechtbuch-enchanted lexicon (too bad you did not try to pronounce 'fechtbuch'), I find the tsar axe works better for this, since the damage bonus from the kill streak buff (scalp collector skill from weapon master in New Sirocco) is greater than the difference between the damage stats of the two weapons.
Ah true I didn't even think of that one. I personally don't really like the tsar axe or the scalp collector skill lol. Which is unfortunate because with what you are saying it could be really strong. I just never got into a grove with either. Might need to revisit them.
By the time you get the scepter, you most probably have gone through spire of light. Unique/arena bosses that use lightning are a whole other story though.
