Originally Posted by Alexstrasza
Originally Posted by BlackHole9000

Spears are also great for Finesse classes with warfare skills, simply because of their excellent range, they deal slightly less damage than other Strength 2-handers but their range in melee has no equal, combined with opportunist it just rocks.


Spears are awful, lol.

They scale with finesse, but none of the scoundrel abilities are really meant for them.
They don't scale with warfare, because warfare scales with strength.

It's like, what's the point? Not to mention, there really isn't a lot of unique spears in the game. Daggers are infinitely better and just have better supportive options.

Some of the strongest combos in the game are with daggers. The most consistent form of CC in this game is from Warfare's ability to rupture enemy armour instantly and keep them knocked down for a long time.


Weapon-based skills (MOST skills from Scoundrel, Huntsman, and Warfare) all scale based on attack damage. They do X% of whatever you would normally do with an attack, with NO additional attribute or level scaling. The tooltip will say "scales with finesse" when you equip a spear, but the truth is that the spear itself scales with finesse, and the skill just does damage based on what the spear would do.

There are a few exceptions that don't account for weapons at all (functionally they work like magic spells). Chloroform is one such example, and will scale with finesse and level instead of weapon.