This is definitely a biased pick, as I've recently been toying around with different axes on the test server for a build, tried this thing, and realized that it's...sort of clunky to use, right now, compared to other axes, especially the prominent ones.
...Could this thing not have negative crit? Like, I'm not even asking for positive base crit, I just want it to not be an outright stat deficiency. The effects are nice, sure, but you're at a minimum of a 10 point disparity in LUC over most other currently 'good' axes'.
Its other stats don't even particularly make up for it, either - 14 Power is just average for an axe, and the 110% scaling ( 80% STR, 30% VIT) while nice, definitely isn't out of the realm of axes with weapons like Sheer Cold, or Anchor Edge that have...infinitely better stats to boot.
One could kind of say that it's the point of the weapon, and that its low base stats are supposed to make up for its (admittedly decent) combined effects of Dark Chip damage and Vampirism...But, there exists Monster Spine as a weapon allowed to have better base stats overall, (it loses a little scaling and POW, but has 5 base crit) AND genuinely amazing effects to boot, that I'd say outclass Vampire Bat's. I'd say needing an enchant slot isn't much of an argument as Bloodhunt is, you know, a good enchant in itself, it's not a case like Homura's.
(Not that I think Monster Spine should be used as a baseline, that thing is a hellspawn, but it's another effects-based axe that has...both better effects, enhanced targetting, and better stats? Very easy thing to compare Bat to.)
Even compared to common stat-stick Axes like Baphomet, Anchor Edge, Sheer Cold, (Which I get that Vampire Bat is not trying to be), you're at a minimum of a crit deficiency of...15. Or, you would invest 15 points in LUC on a Vampire Bat to get the same result as an non-invested Anchor Edge user, for example.
Tldr, effects are nice but Monster Spine exists, explicitly more expensive to build for than other axes, it's kinda just outclassed, send help, just give it 0 crit so it's not explicitly harder to build for than any other axe
...Could this thing not have negative crit? Like, I'm not even asking for positive base crit, I just want it to not be an outright stat deficiency. The effects are nice, sure, but you're at a minimum of a 10 point disparity in LUC over most other currently 'good' axes'.
Its other stats don't even particularly make up for it, either - 14 Power is just average for an axe, and the 110% scaling ( 80% STR, 30% VIT) while nice, definitely isn't out of the realm of axes with weapons like Sheer Cold, or Anchor Edge that have...infinitely better stats to boot.
One could kind of say that it's the point of the weapon, and that its low base stats are supposed to make up for its (admittedly decent) combined effects of Dark Chip damage and Vampirism...But, there exists Monster Spine as a weapon allowed to have better base stats overall, (it loses a little scaling and POW, but has 5 base crit) AND genuinely amazing effects to boot, that I'd say outclass Vampire Bat's. I'd say needing an enchant slot isn't much of an argument as Bloodhunt is, you know, a good enchant in itself, it's not a case like Homura's.
(Not that I think Monster Spine should be used as a baseline, that thing is a hellspawn, but it's another effects-based axe that has...both better effects, enhanced targetting, and better stats? Very easy thing to compare Bat to.)
Even compared to common stat-stick Axes like Baphomet, Anchor Edge, Sheer Cold, (Which I get that Vampire Bat is not trying to be), you're at a minimum of a crit deficiency of...15. Or, you would invest 15 points in LUC on a Vampire Bat to get the same result as an non-invested Anchor Edge user, for example.
Tldr, effects are nice but Monster Spine exists, explicitly more expensive to build for than other axes, it's kinda just outclassed, send help, just give it 0 crit so it's not explicitly harder to build for than any other axe
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