I’ve looked up many discussions on this and for some reason I cannot get a clear answer so I’m going to try and be hyper-specific on what I’m asking.
Each weapon expertise comes in 2 forms, the one that gradually ranks up and the one that gets unlocked at level 10. For simplicity I’ll call them A and B.
Let’s say I have the following arsenal:
Dual wield swords
2H mace
2H axe
And I slot these skills:
Frenzy (dual wield swords)
HotA (2H mace)
Leap (2H axe manually selected)
And I have chosen 2H axe expertise.
Question 1: The obvious one. When I Leap I should get 2H axe expertise both A and B. I’m pretty sure when I use Frenzy or HotA I should get 2H axe expertise A but not B. If someone can confirm I’d appreciate it.
Question 2: This is the big one that I’m hoping for a concrete answer to. When I use Frenzy do I get 1H sword expertise? A? B? Same question with HotA for 2H mace expertise.
Thanks!
1 yes sounds right
Frenzy hits two times once for each hand
So if you have 1hsword/1hmace each hand gets their respective A/B and both get A from your chosen expertise
Hope this answers your ?
Sort of, so you are saying any weapon that I use in an attack gets both A and B parts of its expertise, regardless of what I have selected as technique? And then the A part of my chosen technique gets applied to everything?
Technique is very simple.
Whatever you have in your Technique Slot gets added to every Direct Damage Skill Attack that you can assign a weapon from your Arsenal.
You get the Technique Slot bonus on top of your weapon attack. If you have a 1H Mace and 1 Hand Sword on Frenzy and 2H Axe as your Technique, you get the 1H Mace bonus and 2H Axe Bonus, then the 1H Sword Bonus and 2H Axe Bonus.
Technique Slot does not stack with itself. This means if you have a 2H Axe bound to Lunging Strike and 2H Axe as your Technique, you only get the 2H Axe bonus from your Lunging Strike, not Technique.
Your Technique Slot only gets the level bonus and NOT the Extra Bonus you unlock with maxing it out at LVL 10. This means for 2H Axe you are only getting the Vulnerable Damage increase.
Your Technique Slot weapon level matters. If your Technique Slot weapon you have assigned is LVL 1, you only get the LVL 1 bonus. If it is 10, you get the full bonus. You will need to level it up, which can be odd considering you are probably taking a Technique that does NOT get utilized often ot as your Primary attack. You might have to put some trash points into WW even if you don’t use WW just to level it up fast.
Technique bonuses are sometimes bugged. It does not apply to all sources and the tool tips are not clear. The most commonly used Technique outside of 2H Axe is 2H Sword for the Bleed conditional, however, some Barbarians are making the Lucky Hit Polearm work. It is pretty niche to use anything else.
*Edit: Keep in mind 1H bonuses tend to get a bonus for using 2 of the same weapon.
If you mouse over your chosen technique in the expertise menu you can see the bonus that is applied for all attacks. You can see it says “when using any weapon”
When you use a skill it receives both bonuses (A and B) of the weapon that skill uses plus the A bonus of the expertise you chose
for example hota will use your 2hbludgeoning weapon and it receives 2h bludgeoning A/B bonuses. If you have chosen sword expertise it will also receive the A bonus of sword expertise