Originally posted by knighttemplar1960:

The queen is fast. You won't get a 3 swing combo in (except perhaps with flesh rippers, haven't tried those).

True true thats half the problem of meleeing her.

Frostner has a longer animation, a lower DPS, and the Queen is immune to the spirit damage. The slow from the frost doesn't help enough against the queen to allow a 3 swing combo before she gets another attack in. Swing once, move a bit while the stam you used regens, dodge as needed, repeat. Same as you did when you fought your first greydwarf brute when you were armed with a club or your first wolf in the mountains with your iron mace or sword.

AFAIR Maces and Swords had same animation speeds actually.
Yeah DPS is lower but DPStamina is tiny bit higher for Frostner (excluding all spirit but including upgrades). Ofc in practice a balance of the two decides how fast boss dies. Queen isnt exactly a free hit boss like Bonemass or Moder, but its not hard to reach stamina limit before she does something to make you disengage. Unlike, say Yagluth that you really want that burst damage (DPS).

Also im not bias against sword, did my melee with Mistwalker, but thats mostly due to reach and other benefits. Its definitely the best weapon we have. But just not by a any significant margin. In practice only reason why we deal more damage as we progress is increasing stamina pool. If you jump into someones game and give him best weapons he wont be much better off.