I didn’t do any research. Just crafted all starmetal weapons and played with them for a bit to get a feel of how they performed. Did the Wine Cellar multiple times with different weapons and I found the 2handed starmetal great axe to be a beast. 2handed hammer is too slow for my taste, while every other weapon except great axe is just underperforming.

I think that adding a test dummy with floating damage numbers to the game would be a really good addition. We have nothing in the game to test our builds/thralls other than doing a quick math while we stare at our foes health bars.

I also did some tests on Age of War testlive, but since things are not final/subject to change, i won’t bother too much with the data I got. I’ll have to wait until patch goes live.

tldr: used to be a dagger user, but right now great axe is where I feel entertained.