Fighting Styles

Still fairly new, but so far I see very little reason not to just dual wield.

Can knock arrows out of the air, parry, bash just fine with decent height and weight, twice the offense and aren't left cripplingly exposed when you run into a disarm > get weapon spammer, which seem to be really common from PK types.

Strength seems superior to agility no matter what weapon or style is used.

This might completely change if you have characters that live an in-game lifetime, but for average joes like me, the above seems the winning ticket against most threats.

I have a few two-handed concepts I wanted to run with but the two I tried so far died almost instantly as soon as anyone with disarm walks into the room.

Wish they had weapon chains or ropes or some such thing as being caught without a weapon or a shield just seems like immediate death if you're stuck with a post-skill delay.

edit Kind of related, but is the an optimal height / weight / age for combat characters? Is it race dependent?

How do you tell what weapon is better then others?

Is there a general list available of the higher stat weapons that you could share?

lol, not surprised one bit by that one.

Generally speaking, possibly going alongside the uniform bm2 speaks of, weapons are pretty standard. The heavier it is, the greater damage it will incur. Obsidian sword will deal a lot more damage then a wooden one. No matter what. Quality of the item, its description and type does add a tiny bit into the mix, but not at all that much.

Spears or perhaps all piercing seems to be more accurate then other weapons in the game. With slashers coming after. I am guessing choppers and bludgeons ending up as the least accurate. Obviously choppers/blunt are most damaging, followed by slashers, and piercing as the least.

I've had a maxed assassin with whom I've managed to deal much much greater damage while using axes, then daggers. I did not even 'have' chopping skill. Though I suppose, it might have been a series of massive flukes.

There was a maxed assassin I once knew who never missed anything. As in, there was basically no point for him to go brief combat, all of his rounds were hits, even against turaals while unarmed and prone. But his spars with a partner high skilled warrior left him landing one in 20+ at best. Everything else is blocked by shield and very rarely parried.

I 'have' seen warrior dwarves bringing down Meks in solo combat. I've done that to silt horrors as my warrior humans. All of that due to shield use.

So yeah, definitely a good idea to use shield use for warriors. I dont know much about Etwo. It might be useful to use etwo for mages with high strength, or merchant HGs, guilds with no weapon skills basically. Since etwo adds an accuracy bonus, depending on your strength, while dual wield does none of that.

The way it works, is that dual wield helps you deal more damage and be more accurate with your offhand. It does nothing, or very little to your prime hand. While etwoing helps your primary attack with accuracy and damage a good deal. Dual wield tends to work better for combat classes, while etwoing works good for primarily high statted characters.