After playing a BM on live for quite sometime, I can never see putting points in shield just for slam. A BM is a dmg class, and wasting those points in shield just seems insane. If you want slam, roll a hero.

thrust or blades or blunt ? for the BM...

i heared several playing with the shield spec too...

i heard bm just sucks ........ =)
dmg class lol

sgiee wrote:thrust or blades or blunt ? for the BM...

i heared several playing with the shield spec too...

Well go 42 shield 50 cd 39 weapon necessarily.
Weapon choice depends on your playstyle really. Piercing is better if you run in at (bonus on chain wearing healers/cleris), blades is better if you play more defensively cause it has 10% damage bonus against savage/zerker armors. Blunt is not worth concerning imo if you take shieldspec.

Hops wrote:I now have all CD / DW / LA played classes on Uthgard and can say that these games are quite different and also in terms of harm there are differences.

Berserker = 350-400 dmg + 60% LA dmg 2.4 delay if LA a fast weapon
Merc = 300-350 dmg + 70% chance DW with 3.0
BM = 250-300 dmg + 70% chance CD with 3.0
Savage = 220-250 dmg 1.7 delay

u see bm loss, but have backsnare

Zerks can spec for backsnare as well.

Was this based off of a training dummy?

Brooms wrote:

Hops wrote:I now have all CD / DW / LA played classes on Uthgard and can say that these games are quite different and also in terms of harm there are differences.

Berserker = 350-400 dmg + 60% LA dmg 2.4 delay if LA a fast weapon
Merc = 300-350 dmg + 70% chance DW with 3.0
BM = 250-300 dmg + 70% chance CD with 3.0
Savage = 220-250 dmg 1.7 delay

u see bm loss, but have backsnare

Zerks can spec for backsnare as well.

Was this based off of a training dummy?

That dmg is irelevant until he s teling us what styles he used .
Apart from the fact that zerkers sometimes can crit more then 50% from their dmg, bms using triple wield will outdmg them if they have mopain3-4.
Growth style is better indeed on Laxe, backchain starts with 1% up to 1.4% while DW/CD reach 0.85% max.
How Toblerone said, you can go 50 CD/DW 42 shield and 51 composite weapon as long as you r using CD/DW styles only, but i do recomend doouble spec thsurt dmg/slash dmg for alb/hib .

Melodexx wrote:i heard bm just sucks ........ =)
dmg class lol

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