I believe Felar get a small bonus to their claw weapon AV.
In addition: The weapon AVs you can access early on are generally higher than your claw weapon av early on. The loss of hit/dam and inability to explot vulns/bypass resists is problematic for h2h.
Spear/staff is more or less the default felar weapon spec. There's virtually no reason to not pick it up, as it confers everything you could hope for.
H2h is also extremely common on felar as their claws give a nice bonus.
Before the changes to underhand/concealed, dagger used to be a good bet on Felar as well.
Sword/axe/mace are all meh, as they either require dual wield to make good
I'd like to explore the shit out of that place. Unfortunately, I would have to make throw-away characters specifically tailored to exploring that area alone, because there's no way I'm blowing the con/gear/role of a real character on exploring that deathtrap.
To add to this, the Archmage is no slouch. He can lay maledicts on pretty thick putting raiders at a considerable disadvantage during and after the raid. Forsaken portal makes raiding the Chasm stupidly annoying and hazardous at the least.
The Executioner drops guards fairly consistently, plus the warranting means extra levels of harassment.
The Council isnt too tough, but the sheer volume
Healers (It will take you a glacial age to kill anything of note, unless you have proccing gear stacked out the wazoo)
Or
Thieves (You dont tank well, you dont deal damage well, you are just a big ball of squish that needs someone else to hide behind to circle in PvE. Most pets wont really last long enough for you to get good use out of them as circle buddies.)
He went from doing 'hits' (11 damage)
To Mutilates/Dismembers (40-50 damage)
That is a clear increase in damage, several times over. Add in better gear (because I'm betting Faulkren was wearing garbage), and you'll quickly see how the added weapon Av./Damroll quickly ramps up (remember, multiplicative bonus).
I wish my enemies derped like that.
Yigg should've dirted to let armadillo redirect actually be of use, rather than pincerspam.
Solec should've fucked off as soon as he saw Yigg drop. There's virtually nothing he can do in that situation against a pole/flail rager.
Lethmitel didnt camo. Why didnt he camo? That room is wilderness. Also, as soon as the first flee failed when