Chosen Influence Weapons

[th3gatekeeper]

So, before I post anything... I am NOT here to complain. I love the game and immensely appreciate the work that is being put into it. My goal in posting this is so that hopefully the influence weapons (primarily 2H) will become viable options to shoot for rather than being sub-par currently.

The main two I am referring to are the Greenskin/Elf 2H for Chosen:

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Why are they lackluster?
Well, eventhough they have superb weapon DPS, the stats are frankly abysmal to the point that they seem not worth it. I compare the Greenskin weapon to the SC weapon:

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VS

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I guess for other classes, the fact that it contains a bucket load of weapon skill, would normally be a good thing. Chosen, on the other hand, have many attacks that deal spirit damage and thus, most Chosen will not stack or greatly use weapon skill - making this weapon worthless compared to the SC stats. Also, crippling strikes is the primary reason most chosen run 2H, which means a weapon with 4% crit is going to VASTLY outperform or be desired above the other higher DPS weapon. Not to mention getting AP gain and wounds as well... At the cost of what? Weapon skill that noone cares about and a little bit of STR/DPS? Doesnt seem even close to me.....

Now, looking at the Greenskin ONE handed sword, it seems to me these stats are something that could be mirrored onto the 2H weapon making it have some pros vs cons against the SC weapon and possibly desired:

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This Sword has toughness, parry, crit.

I dont know how the stat allocation works, but even swapping the stat allocation from weapon skill over to crit/parry would be a HUGE improvement and make this weapon much more desired.

The elf 2H isnt much better either:

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As a "defensive" 2H, this too fails compared to its SC counter part.

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Which contains Toughness/Wounds/reduced ARP/Reduced change to be crit....


Again, my GOAL here is to make both these weapons desirable. Right now the SC weapons crush them in almost everyway... So for a summary:

Greenskin 2H: Would be great if it mimic-ed the 1h in stats (toughness/parry/crit) but instead provided STR/Parry/Crit. This would be the offensive 2H.
Elf 2H: Seems to be a more defensive 2H, so it would be great if it had more defensive stats on it... STR/Toughness/Initiative are awesome, but compared to the SC weapon, it falls behind a bit as 24 initiative is much less than 4% reduced chance to be crit. Then you compare Toughness/Wounds/Reduced ARP to STR/Toughness and its a no brainer to me... Ditch the STR and maybe go for a cool "stat" like Parry or reduced ARP, or AP/Sec stuff. Heck even a morale/Sec would be a good addition.

Currently neither of these weapons beat out their SC counter parts and given all they offer is higher damage, I can see many even choosing some of the Epic Weapon Quest weapons over them.... With just a SMALL change in stats (primarily weapon skill changed out for something else) these could be a good OPTION.

I AM NOT LOOKING TO BUFF CHOSEN!!! Merely give a good OPTION compared to other weapons. As of right now, these influence weapons wont be used. (IMO).

Thanks!