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bladedog · 07-01-2005, 07:53 AM

Joe,

Like Wearboar I'd be really interested to know in what way your Lord "cannot dual wield yet".

It sounds like you have a comparible weapon in each hand (i.e. two short reach etc) and that one is Primary and one secondary (indeed I'm sure the game doesn't let you hold invalid combinations).

Does he attack twice, once with each weapon? If so he is dual wielding, though perhaps poorly. If not then

. Is one weapon's initiative so bad that everything has been killed before he gets to use it? My Lord has two attacks with the primary as either the first or second attacker, then the offhand weapon hits as almost the last attack each round. Often by the end of the second phase of attacks everything is dead before he gets to attack that last time.

If he attacks twice, does he miss a lot? If so you are suffering the same issue that made me give up on three successive lords until I went with a Rawulf and pumped SEN, DEX & STR with 2 points per round. In the skills push Dual Wield, and whatever weapon(s) you are using. I gave my Lord two of the same weapon class most of the early game so I could concentrate on pushing points into Divinity too as I had no-one else to cast Magic Screen. Try to resist the temptation to spell cast in combat early in the game, unless your are too far away for combat anyway, and fight fight fight.

[ 07-01-2005, 07:57 AM: Message edited by: bladedog ]

07-01-2005, 07:53 AM	#9
bladedog Dungeon Master Join Date: July 3, 2004 Location: UK Age: 55 Posts: 63	Joe, Like Wearboar I'd be really interested to know in what way your Lord "cannot dual wield yet". It sounds like you have a comparible weapon in each hand (i.e. two short reach etc) and that one is Primary and one secondary (indeed I'm sure the game doesn't let you hold invalid combinations). Does he attack twice, once with each weapon? If so he is dual wielding, though perhaps poorly. If not then . Is one weapon's initiative so bad that everything has been killed before he gets to use it? My Lord has two attacks with the primary as either the first or second attacker, then the offhand weapon hits as almost the last attack each round. Often by the end of the second phase of attacks everything is dead before he gets to attack that last time. If he attacks twice, does he miss a lot? If so you are suffering the same issue that made me give up on three successive lords until I went with a Rawulf and pumped SEN, DEX & STR with 2 points per round. In the skills push Dual Wield, and whatever weapon(s) you are using. I gave my Lord two of the same weapon class most of the early game so I could concentrate on pushing points into Divinity too as I had no-one else to cast Magic Screen. Try to resist the temptation to spell cast in combat early in the game, unless your are too far away for combat anyway, and fight fight fight. [ 07-01-2005, 07:57 AM: Message edited by: bladedog ]