It was in the first game, but it wasnt this good, your range is longer in this one, the damage is higher, and there are crates with ridiculously high hps in this one so you can keep the same crate for a really long time.
Made a barrelmancer and decided to not care about strength and just took my crate for a walk rather than carry it in my inventory, got its weight up to 1982, it was dealing 800 damage (in other words 1 hitting literally everything) with executioner talent I start and end fights in one turn. Also crates can crit.
Hitting dwarves and elves can be hard, but I found that all you have to do is carry a couple vases on you, set the vase as close as you can to the dwarf/ elf and then stack your crate onto the vase and it will hit them easy.
