lower light attack damage? Thats a con compared to other maces no? I use the mace from time to time and its nice landing the one hit to people but anyone with any sort of armor/hp wargear survives it so long as they are not Eldar. I dont recall Eldar ever surviving being hit.
Been using it since it was released, I do enjoy it but its quite expensive and quite slow. I will always stand by my duelist blade. The hightened durability on the duelist blade has allowed me to break powerfists in combat, but that was back when power fists were still good. Havent fought many power fists users recently. I used to use power fist as well but man something about the Duelist Blade is too epic. Duelist blade all the way. Looks epic on a spacewolf also since we dont have frostblades.
It also swings at Mace speed(slower than an axe) and costs more LP. A mace without durability would be pointless, since they are meant for clanging.
Dueled against the chaos equivalent in the garrison, i won against it pretty often with power sword because of speed. Then again my superior skillz might have also made the difference and i did use the pistol quite a lot but that just part of the dueling experience and countering defensive bash. But yeah everytime i got hit by it without clashing i was almost instantly done because of the permastun so sneaking tactics make it super effective.
There is no chaos equivalent of this weapon. The new chaos Mace has the same stats as a normal powermaul, costs 100 LP more (is not moddable either) and offers a short stun on the opening rush attack. While the LSM one costs an additional (over mancatcher and MC Mace) 30 LP but offers +53 (~30% increase) more damage on every strong attack.
I know it does, but at least the mace is usable. With the git prod if you clang once with anything above sword tier it pretty much breaks. I'm not saying the mace itself is too good. I'm saying that compared to the git prod it's kinda BS that the mace's only real downside is that it's a mace, yet it still does more damage than the axe. Axes are supposed to have a higher base damage, add on the unique bonus and it still falls short.
