Thread:173.58.100.7/@comment-25555436-20150409003444/@comment-25555436-20150410004326

There's some contradiction in your playstyle and weapon choice though. You say you want to kill enemies quickly before they can kill you, but using a 2H weapon prevents that from happening effectively.

Thanks to the astonishingly slow attack-speed with 2HWs, for every hit you get, and hits with 2HWs have much less accuracy compared to a 1HW's, an oponent with 1HW or Daggers can give you 2-4 hits, each one doing close to the same damage you can cause with a single hit and higher chance of hitting you.

The lack of shield decreases your defense preventing you from evading effectively while you attack, so you depend 100% on your armor, which won't be enough honestly. So you get more hits, last much less, for a result you could get much easier with just 1HW`+Shield. Hell, I didn't even need a Healer for 70% of the game thanks to that.

Only way for you to effectively do that would be to add 2 Haste spells on to the team, as with 1 you could barely reach the same Attack-Speed as a 1H Warrior. And with those haste spells, any 1H Warrior or Rogue has even higher attack-speed, which means instead of a 1:2 comparison between 2HW and 1HW, it becomes 1:3 or even 1:4. And in high dificulties, 2HWs don't kill in 1-hit, probably not even 2, and the lower defense doesn't help.

But all that is just Origins-related. In DA2 2H Warriors are much more effective thanks to better AoE in attacks and much higher attack speed and accuracy.