Yea....
So After using hammer for awhile, I realized it sucks. It really, really sucks. You can do 50 damage with a recup of 18 after two skill points with a two handed hammer, or you can do 50 damage with a recup of 6 after two skill points with a one handed mace. Making a "hammer" char has been a major waste of time. So I restarted.
You can deal 3 times the damage with basically any other weapon category.
Now on to character 2. After ~13 hours of play and about 6 skill points spent in the "lightning/fire/poison" damage categories, I realize that only *one* of those skills is being implemented, which is the fire damage. My enemies are not shocked or poisoned. My stun works fine, though. Blech.
If you have a 10 percent chance in 4 passive attack skills each, that should be a 40 percent chance of something happening. Instead, I get a 20 percent of either stun or fire. Blahhhh.
So I'm making yet another character. If I find another fatal flaw with my skill point distribution, I'm going to scream and break my game CD. (Don't worry, I've read about crossbow).
Late.