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Can giants please get an equal tiered weapon in terms of stats as humans get battleswords.
I feel as a giant who's supposed to be stronger in melee damage/combat that my advantage is completely offset by the weapon choices we get for dual wielding.
All of our dual wieldable weapons are significantly weaker to maxed out battleswords. And im not including ego weapons in this.

Leave your oppinions down below.

Greetings,
Guardia

Dual wield 2h weapons?

Imho, Giants only need the smash buff and either Atlatl Upgrades or Throwing Attack buff (both will probably be op?). We already can 2h + Vales Shield, charge without shield.

Weapon wise, Battleswords (Max Roll) just have ~15 Crit and ~50 min damage above Warhammers and 5 max damage below (both monster dropped +4 dura type). Which help, but are not 'completely offset'. Also take into account that you can añso get -20~-40 dex (which affect your balance unless you have a very good amount of dex as a Giant i.e. 310~350) on the artisan upgrade, unless you go for the clean max roll and spend even more on removal tools.
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In dual wielding max artisan battleswords they get up to 86 - 114 dmg with 44% crit, I dont see dual wielding any blunt weapon near that level.

while higher raw damage may come from max artisan'd Battleswords, giants have the advantage of shield + 2h with crazy smash dmg buff

No.

If only we could have lances, but, that's a G14 thing, not G13, so welp.

That sadly means very little in the current state of the game were it's WM everything to quickly deal with it and maybe smash if it's 1-2 mobs left, or WM lock a bosses AI. Smash is left out in the cold in most cases. It's powerful, but slower than WM, takes on a single foe with some meh splash sometimes, and offers no defensive value as well and doesn't ignore prot to calc crit.

I dont get how you're talking about endgame weapons but leaving out egos.. Giants are fine damage wise. just follow the meta

I believe lances are coming within the realm of possibility for us.

yes please, I miss lance meta and being a giant for the first time i can finally do lance + cooking pot!! stoked if this actually releases

Aww shit lances!

perfect battle swords only hit that hard on basic attacks. smash, windmill, etc. (the attacks that matter) are calculated by adding both weapons' damage to the damage from your base stats and skills.

base max damage for windmill with dual battle swords (with perfect artisan rolls!): 54+54+60 (from artisan str) = 168
base max damage for windmill with dual warhammers (no artisan rolls required): 87+87 = 174

dual warhammers have higher damage, blunt mastery gives more damage than sword mastery, and giants get much more str.

this is not even accounting for the fact that blunt egos are much more poweful than any 1h sword ego.

giants don't "need" a damage buff to completely outclass humans. they already do.

Atlatls, with their massive cooldown time, are a no-go atm as an alternative.
Even at r1 they can't compare to melee in barely any aspect.
Even if we had the atlatl upgrades, and implying they start hitting really hard, the cooldown would still make them a slow option.
Why not greatly reduce throwing attack skill cooldown time without improving atlatls? This would give giants versatility and more balooning-rafting chances.
This would also make the skill usable at all, and its training bearable.