Melee Solak but camping a Hatchet (for PVME)

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Wc level?

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Is ags better than claws

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In a general context of a bis melee setup (and hybridding with melee), probably not outside of niche situations. Even though the ags has a slightly higher average damage than a dclaw spec, dclaws has 4 hits instead of the single hit of the ags. The multi-hit spec synergizes with better soulsplit healing, adrenaline refunds when used under a crit buff (like meteor strike), and you are more likely to get ice stacks to use on the new leng spec for damage. Adding onto this - when you gain an ice stack with the offhand leng equipped, it procs the frostblades buff which adds extra damage to hits for 9 seconds. Additionally, ags probably hit caps the 30k easily in berserk with t95 weapons, so there's significant damage lost to the hitcap, whereas claws has its damage more spread out in the smaller four hits. That would be even worse when pre-building with a dbaxe or just being at a boss that gives you an extra damage buff. In this specific encounter, with a much lower tier weapon, the ags spec can still hit a 30k in berserk when buffed with dbaxe (the hitcap loss is less severe). There is also much less benefit to multi-hit when locked to the hatchet mainhand - I cannot use meteor strike, and leng spec is inaccessible unless I eof a t85 leng mainhand (which would also be niche to use since I only have 2% chance to get a leng stack per hit with only an offhand t95 leng). So, I enjoyed playing with the ags spec, even if it likely won't really see usage in a regular encounter.