Talk:Hate/@comment-10114595-20130528201253

Got my Hate pretty soon after the patch, a Stalker popped up and I circled-strafed him to death for it; their new bow makes them extremely easy to avoid taking damage from compared to before. My first victory against one of'em too, woo.

Been using it ever since in place of my Gram and...I do like it. Not neccessarily more than my Gram, but it's a pretty neat weapon.

But, in my opinion, it is a crappy charge weapon against hordes of Infested due to the charge flourish and the charge being easily-interrupted. Particularly the latter completely ruins it for that purpose, for me.

Fortunately it attacks ridiculously fast for a "heavy" weapon and simply spamming light swings tears through mobs like whoa. They TRY to interrupt it but your frame is all "NOPE" and attacks anyway and the damage output is just wonderful. Once going, it seems to have some momentum, so as long as you keep the spam up (and don't get hit by an Ancient and/or die)...it's unstoppable. Even the aforementioned Ancients aren't really a problem if you get into range quickly enough, since even an unmodded Hate can stunlock them.

So in summary, if you want to spam wide charge attacks and wipe out a half dozen enemies in a go, get a Gram. Gram is great for charges, that's exactly what I used mine for and it was excellent at it. If you want a weapon that you can just give up and mash the attack button and everything (unarmored) in front of you dies, get a Hate. It can still use charges for armored enemies, but the attack spam is where it shines.

And stop this idiotic X IS BETTER THAN Y crap. They're different weapons, better at different things. You wouldn't take a Snipetron and compare it to a Latron, would you?