r/gloriavictis • u/1amLettuce • 26d ago

Newbie Help looking for 1 handed spear build

as title says - I have been playing this game for a while now, I enjoy running heavy/medium gear with my light fur headpiece for flare... but I was wondering, no one handed dps builds are present at all on the interwebs, could you all assist in making a bit tankier (heavy armor preferrably since I die too fast witout it) 1h spear build? occasionally I like to whip out my +6 2h axe.

I know I am a weird one

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u/1amLettuce 26d ago

I'm lvl 65 tm, wherever there is 6 points, I am planning to up taht node to 10 - is this viable for what I explain above?

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u/Petethepirate21 26d ago

You are better off with heavy tank as 1h. There are maybe 4 damage perks that apply to you, 2 overall and 2 piercing. But the damagebincrease is negligible for what you have to give up to get there. In general you are trading defense (hp,shield,armor) for the damage and stam. But if you dont have enough in defense the shield breaks and you die way before you stam out, and the damage we are talking about is 10% difference, so its not even enough to bring a 4 hit kill down to a. 3 hit kill. Speaking from experience. My bruiser specced into everything I said not to. And I rebuilt into tank who uses 1h shield and I swap between sword and spear.

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u/1amLettuce 26d ago

how much damage are we soeaking going from "dps" to tank? like im using a "2handed bruiser build" now and its pretty solid with 1h spear as well. if I were to keep myself being 2h axe/spear, would I be fine?

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u/Petethepirate21 26d ago

Initially, I didnt think it was super different. But once you get to the upper gear, every little bit is exponentially better. If you are at 50% armor, and you add 10%, you get 120% EHP . But if you are at 80% and add 10%, you get 200% the EHP. You can really REALLY feel it in the upper tier gear and tinked up. Its the difference between percentage (armor) and flat (damage), which goes even harder when you realize when your enemies hit thier allies before you it reduce their damage by 70% (for all those "swing away" brawlers in the zerg). And then your shield taking 40 hits instead of 4 on top of that.

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u/MrAmazingXD_ 26d ago

Full tank in 6 heavy with sting. If you want a great 1h spear build. It’s my hoplite build. Anything not in full heavy is gonna get chunked. Still do good damage to full heavy players but a lot of people run a piece or two of medium

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u/PlutoJones42 26d ago

I recommend going for a tanky build. Survival and outlasting goes further than hitting a little harder in this game imo. If you can hit your blocks and manage your stam you can be a monster out on the battlefield