Dear EHG, as someone that really enjoys Last Epoch and loves blunt weapons im a sad panda.
A bit of wall of text inc here:
Currently we got a total of 18 unique swords, 14 unique axes and… 8 unique maces.
Not only that, the unique maces are also pretty meh across the board.
Hammer of lorent is basically only unique because it can roll 2+ lp pretty often, besides that its super boring and at best a twink item (it does have an absolute bad’ass model though).
Storm breaker should be awesome, but just isn’t. The proc is eh, the base is horrible and it dosen’t really enable any build, besides maybe a howl of westwind wolflord sort of thing. It seems like such an obvious candidate for THE gathering storm unique (pretty please).
Shadow beacon seems pretty cool, but then you add insult to injury by having restrictions on stuff like void cleave. Come on, let us use void cleave with maces already. Just rename the skill.
The story is pretty much the same for all the 1handed maces. Maces also have the most boring implicits, 80% of them are just damg + stun. All sorts of armor shred and different damage penetrations seems like an obvious design avenue for maces - as that’s what blunt weapons were used and designed for.
In short: Please show some love to Hammers, Maces (and add flails). I know that for some people weapon types etc dosen’t matter at all, but for others like myself, I feel dirty whenever I use a sword.
Make maces great again!
And ty for reading.