I am making a paladin phys damage build and i came across the Leviathan Carver, it seemed perfect at first until i equipped it to try it. The attack speed is abysmal compared to a regular exalted. I tried to measure its dps even with a 2lp t7 t6 slam and it barely broke even against a single t7 exalted 2h sword. Why is this unique in the game??
There are plenty of uniques in the game that are bullshit. Almost all uniques are useless crap if you go for a very specific build. I have a hard time to understand why there are no realy good phys weapons in a wider varity but then again the devs descided long ago that every class has some elemental and conversion stuff about them so the melee dmg archetype got lost a bit.
totally agree, made this post because i love the concept of the unique and the overall physical melee archetype, but as you said there is no support for it, and the one unique i could find that isnt bleed-related is totally useless!
There are some very good axes when it comes to bleed builds.
https://www.lastepochtools.com/db/items/UAwRhwZmI with 2 or 3 LP is completely crazy. So there are options but if you want something special… like my old stupid self who tried to make a bleed build with scepters 
, you soon find out that A: You are an idiot like I was because Scepters can’t get bleed related stuff or B: there is no good weapon base for what you want to do.
TBF though Leviathan is a pretty impressive sword for Phys builds but playing a Paladin without a hield is something strange to do in my book because shields are opop.
I’m pretty sure that would work just as well for a phys hit build as a bleed build. It has implicit bleed chance so you don’t even need any bleed chance elsewhere to benefit from the unique affix.
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It has some use if you have a main skill that doesn’t care about attack speed. For example, there used to be a VK build that used warpath with warslash node that triggered with echoes. Since the damage wasn’t coming from warpath itself but from the echoes triggering the warslash, then attack speed didn’t matter and the flat phys, increased phys and phys penetration made it a good choice.
I don’t think the build is viable anymore (this was for 0.8.3, when the unique was introduced), but the principle applies. If you have a main phys skill that doesn’t care about attack speed, it’s a very good option, especially if you find it with LP.
I think there was some other build recently (rive build for 1.14+) that used it with attack speed slammed, but the creator came to the conclusion that Merophage might be a better option.
Still, having it slammed with T7 attack speed might also offset it.
Merophage would still be easier to get that T7 attack speed on.
Sure, but Merophage doesn’t have as high flat phys, increased phys or phys pen. You can get some of them into it, but not all. So it might still be an option for some builds.
Plus, Merophage is dependent on how many shards you get when shatering, so it’s not easy to even get a T6 into it, let alone a T7.
the only skills i can think of that apply to that are bladedancer dancing strikes, which requires dual wielding and void cleave, which is void or fire, i would love to know about any other attacks that scale off cdr and are also physical, but i couldnt find any!
Forge Strike
EQ can be made that way
Smelter Wrath (though this one is 50/50 fire)
Shield Rush
Fury Leap
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yeah idk why i didnt think of forge strike, and traversal skills as dps skills is something ive never thought of, ive seen shield rush ignite builds but never made the correlation, good to know!
Spamming forge strike sentinel can reach 900cc and comfortably farm 700cc, the best weapon for it is Naal’s Tooth.