I ran a poll on Conqueror’s Blade Reddit trying to see what people think of what is more important, the selection of a weapon or the player skill and here are the results:
Poll Design
Title: Poll: PvP by weapon or player skill?
Extra info: If unsure which or if you think maybe both please choose the option that is the most important part.
Vote option 1: Weapon decides (e.g. weapon specialized for PvP)
Vote option 2: Player skill decides (good skill can win with any weapon)
Poll Results
Weapon importance
Player Skill importance
100 players voted, 39 chose “Weapon decides” and 61 chose “Player skill decides”.
Selected Poll Comments
Here are several comments I selected from people’s opinion showing different elements / reasons:
Kagerou_Daze
Weapon choice usually comes before skill. I mean anyone can play shortsword effectively without any game sense or knowledge. The same can’t be said for shortbow or nodachi. You can have 5x the skill of another player but be matched longbow vs dualblade and never win. So weapon decides. Those who voted for player skill decides probably play low skill weapons like Shortsword and Maul.
My comment on this: I think that’s a good point about bow/dualblade. Bow has a tendency of having a tunnel vision being focused on sniping its targets, so if a dualblade player catches the bow with his ultimate I would wager even an average skilled assassin would kill a high skill bow.
xEppyx
For PVP, definitely player skill. For duels, generally the weapon decides.
My comment on this: I think by PVP here it’s meant in battle. This could very well be true – an interesting point.
Kirikoe
Honestly have a friend who can pick up any weapon and just wreck almost anyone in a 1v1 , there are obviously issues with each weapon which even he recognizes but enough skill can compensate for it
My comment on this: I had a similar experience i fought once with a player who killed me so efficiently (without me hurting him almost at all) that i still don’t know how he managed to do it 🙂
ruleofKon
If we’re talking about siege gameplay, which is a majority of what this game is. It’s a combination of both.
Choose the weapon that best facilitate your troop load out and have the skill required to effectively use your weapon.
For example. If a dual blade duels a glaive, chances are, the glaive will lose the fight pretty handedly (considering both players are of equal skill). Glaive skills are slow and dual blades are fast. Now if you give both players a unit of condottierri guards to slug it out with them then 100% of the time the glaive will win. The glaive can hard CC groups of units pretty easily and in no situation will the dual blade be able to support his troops.
Weapon matters in terms of what they’re being used for, but skill does come into play. Glaive, again, can hard CC and break formations. The difference between you CCing at the right time and completely miss the timing can result in a very dead you and your troops.
The quality of weapon plays into this also. Higher damage weapons for dual blades means they can deal more damage in a shorter amount of time. Higher blunt damage on glaive means the Flying Reaper ult can utterly decimate units and heroes.
My comment on this: I like this comment very much. The comparison with glave working together with units I think is spot on.
Poll Conclusion
Based on the players voting, the winner is “Player skill decides”, so the majority of voters believe that if you are very skilled in playing Conqueror’s Blade then you will do great no matter what weapon you hold.
Looking now after the results I am glad this is the option that won because that means if you practice and improve your skill you can have fun switching around using various weapons.
If the weapon was the focus you would be forced to stick to a specific weapon and miss out on the variety of all the weapons.
Finally a small comment on the poll sample size. 100 is not bad but is not a huge number either so some inaccuracy naturally comes due to sample size. However, the results were not close like 49/51. We have 39/61.
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