On Feb 27, 6:48=A0am, myrddinbach <myrddinb...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Ive been happily dual wielding phase daggers w/ my Gnome bard for most
> of the game. One thing I've noticed is your marks go up much quicker!
> At level 27 I am already at level 14 w/ daggers.
>
> I'll probably hit Grand Mastery within a few more levels - I think
> that makes me a pretty powerful dual wielder at this stage.
At level 14 one hit costs 630 energy points. Dual-wielding would cost
1030 (with two-handed combat skill at 100) or 1430 without two-handed
combat (which means NO to dual without the skill)
1030/2 =3D 515 energy per attack, and that sure is faster than 630.
However:
- Not that much faster, really.
- You are not wearing a ****eld, easily losing something like 30 DV and
5 PV. You will gain 2 DV from the dagger in the off-hand to
compensate. (half of the +4 DV bonus at 14)
- Spending 1030 on a single attack move is tactically far worse than
630. If your character is quite fast, he might do a hit - retreat -
hit routine aganist many monsters without getting hit in return at
all. That is harder with 1030. And some slow monsters can hit HARD.
Also spending that time means that fast-ish or even normal speed
monsters can easily get two moves on you from time to time -
potentially lethal as you now cannot heal between the attacks.
- If your first attack kills the enemy, you still "pay" the energy
cost for the redundant second attack.
- You also lose a little +to-hit. Possibly unless you are a ranger.
But then again:
- If you are really fast, this attack energy is not problem
- You might have good enough armor already to survive "anything", and
just need to finish as fast as possible.
- A certain pair of daggers need to dual wielded to work at all.
So just do it if confident enough that you can handle the negatives.
And the advantage in my opinion is not much at all, really. Better
spend one extra round killing a
Gaining weapon marks will seem to be faster, real-time wise, but
really not by much. Less keypresses, but game-time not much different.
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