Durability wise. I just had a rightclick duell with a chainsword marine, and because he was happy to spam right click, I thought I would win if I just spamed rightclick back. My weapon had around 2 hits left in it when we both got shot down, so it's not immposible that his weapon could have broken before mine. But I am not sure if it would have, and thats seems awfully close. Can someone confirm or deny that a banshee Powersword wins against a Chainsword with just rightclicking from bith players?
in the current state of melee in this game I don't think it's possible to make accurate assumptions of what's do what and what's stronger then what. I had moments where 1 hit with sword killed a player and others where 5 hits didn't scratched him. I had (many) latency issues where I was telported around mid melee. etc...
From my understanding the game has 6 weapon tiers for clashes: 1 being knives 2 being chainswords and witchblades 3 being power swords 4 being axes 5 being mauls 6 being claws and fists in theory the power sword should win against a chainsword in a clash every time but not by much I'm not sure about orks as it's your flavor of choppa's
So.. the Chaos Sorcerer can take much "stronger" CC weapons than the Warlock, including by default being a tier "stronger"? Warlock witchblade should be at least powersword level of strength imo..
Unless they updated it the witchblade is the same tier as a chainsword, I don't know why unless they are going by table top logic since it has no AP but wounds on 2's but that's how it goes, I find it weird since the AS will be more tanky, have more damage and have more offensive spells but warlock can take a fusion pistol which helps I guess.
I had several cases when TACTICALS clanged my banshee's sword with KNIVES! We both losed i.e. powers of our weapons were EQUAL! And to that gradation of weapon tiers - how the hell then are we supposed to engage stronger players in melee? Banshees cant have axes or mauls and claws will only be availabe to Striking Scorpion exarchs in some distant future. Where are advantages of our primary melee specialist class if it occupies the third tier??!!! It makes space marines and orks stronger by default
I think in the old edtions banshee's were capable of taking power axes, I doubt GW would allow it though meaning unless they get executioners for base class the scorpion claw will be the heavy hitter for the faction.
Ah yes the melee mods I almost forgot about those, yeah those will also factor into clashes now meaning banshees can beat stronger unmodded weapons, still they even more of a downside later into the game since I'm guessing higher tiers like axes will have the same mods or similar ones,
