Raudl
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well, yes but mostly no, unless you count 70 to 160 armor as “a lot of armor”. Only one humanoid NPC actually has armor to consider: Arena Champion with 18k armor.
In other words, outside of PVP and some very specific NPCs, armor pen is a worthless stat.
Besides that, if you had compared Dead Leg to one of the better 2h maces in the game, you’d have seen that crafted weapons are not even remotely comparable right now to these legendary drops. When Hanuman’s Gada has 33 more dmg on base attacks than Dead Leg (crafted with a bladesmith even) your argument, that crafted weapons are among the strongest weapons in the game can only be considered trolling.
Also, the fact that you even consider 2h maces and the Predatory Blade to be “strongest” weapons in this game is subjective at best. But I guess when you have “Hammer” in the name, there might be a slight affinity towards hammers.