best bang for your buck 2 hander? Falchion?

[avatar28]

I was one of the few original barbs on Sarlona running around with a falchion, everyone else either had G Axe or dual wielded Khopeshes.. People laughed at me for using a Fal, said something like weapon speed is slow... but Now I see a bunch of barbs running with Fals... Did they change something while I was gone? Was away from DDO from 2010-2012...

I know someone said mauls were junk because they swing slow, and two handed swords swing fast, but only x2 multi. G Axes seemed to be medium swing with x3..

Quite personally, I always favored Falchions because with IC:S they crit on 15-20, which is around 30% of the time, so every 3-4 swings was usually a crit. Granted the x2 was low, but IMO i'd rather crit 30% of the time for x2 then 10% of the time for x3
(comparing Fal to Gaxe and Maul) 2-handed sword would be 25% of the time for x2 with a slightly faster weapon swing?

So my winner was always the Fal.. even if it was close to another weapon for comparison, it looks cooler to me...

so again I was away for 2 years and for all I know they could have changed weapon speeds and such...

comments?suggestions?

Cheers!

[RabidApathy]

Well the biggest part of what prompted this change was the removal of autocrit. It used to be that when an enemy was held, stunned, or otherwise incapacitated, a greataxe would do 3x every hit and a falchion would do 2x every hit and thus crit range was less important than crit multiplier. Now that the helpless state is a straight +50% damage, the Falchion is seeing it's comeback.

[arminius]

Plus they fixed the thing where the various two handers had different animation speeds, which really buggered falchion above all.

[avatar28]

good.. well now that they fixed the weapon animation speed, and I already have my fal.. I guess it was a good choice to go with it.. I just don't want people to think that i'm a cookie cutter barb who goes with whatever is "in". I liked them because of their crit range - and because they are **** cool looking!

Thanks for the response