Hello,
for all players which have an orkham weapon single roll like stamina, physical damage reduction or physical defense and so on.
As for now (01.12.2025) you don't need to go for the new grove weapons, if you don't struggle hard with aggro.
You ask why? Single old orkham rolls are way more effective, like a 50% physical defense roll on a 2h hammer comparing with the 3 statline rolls on the new weapons.
If you ask which class to play if you struggle a bit?
All champions (champ/priest, champ/warrior and champ/knight) do huge aggro and shouldn't have any problems.
If you play warden tank, it's kinda the same. Not so huge aggro like a champ, but really enough.
And if you play knight: try knight/warrior or knight/scout if you struggle in aggro. also knight/mage do good aggro if buffed correctly.
a possible solution would be for 1h weapons to allow tanks to corrupt shields (and only wearable a corrupted shield with grove weapon).
for 2h weapons there must be a solution on new weapons like exclusive increase tank stats on corrupted mods
Greetings