Best weapons to dual-wield with?

[Heartless Butterscotch]

Hey, what weapons work best for a dual-wielding kensai? Right now I've her wielding two longswords. Is that so wrong?

[ 12-05-2002, 06:23 AM: Message edited by: Heartless Butterscotch ]

[Sir Exxon]

I suggest you try the Celestial Fury + Flail of Ages.

[Sodomatic Goat]

Originally posted by Sir Exxon: I suggest you try the Celestial Fury + Flail of Ages.

Maybe it is just me but I can't see to find the greatness of the Celestial Fury.... what is it that makes you think it is that good??

[Sir Exxon]

Originally posted by Sodomatic Goat: quote: Originally posted by Sir Exxon: I suggest you try the Celestial Fury + Flail of Ages.

Maybe it is just me but I can't see to find the greatness of the Celestial Fury.... what is it that makes you think it is that good??[/QUOTE]Many things. First of all, it is 1d10 +3, dealing out much damage. We also have the Lightning Strike and Blindness once per day, and the 5% chance of dealing out 20 more electrical damage and stun.

[Sodomatic Goat]

Originally posted by Sir Exxon: quote: Originally posted by Sodomatic Goat: quote: Originally posted by Sir Exxon: I suggest you try the Celestial Fury + Flail of Ages.

Maybe it is just me but I can't see to find the greatness of the Celestial Fury.... what is it that makes you think it is that good??[/QUOTE]Many things. First of all, it is 1d10 +3, dealing out much damage. We also have the Lightning Strike and Blindness once per day, and the 5% chance of dealing out 20 more electrical damage and stun. [/QUOTE]Yeah but still... there are many better weapons... blade of searing (?)

[Myrddin L'argenton]

Originally posted by Sodomatic Goat: quote: Originally posted by Sir Exxon: quote: Originally posted by Sodomatic Goat: quote: Originally posted by Sir Exxon: I suggest you try the Celestial Fury + Flail of Ages.

Maybe it is just me but I can't see to find the greatness of the Celestial Fury.... what is it that makes you think it is that good??[/QUOTE]Many things. First of all, it is 1d10 +3, dealing out much damage. We also have the Lightning Strike and Blindness once per day, and the 5% chance of dealing out 20 more electrical damage and stun. [/QUOTE]Yeah but still... there are many better weapons... blade of searing (?)[/QUOTE]I liked Haer 'dalise's blades entropy and chaos, nice!

[Angelousss]

the power of the cesfury is stun. it's amazingly effective. I just beat the game(tob too) wielding it and the defender of easterhaven(addon merchants) nearly exclusively. I had some longswords for +4 weapons and used the blackrazor w/ effectiveness in tob.
I seen great cases being made for flails and/or warhammers as being great for kensais. the foa, defender of easterhaven, crom faeyr make excellent weapons.

[Alson]

Originally posted by Heartless Butterscotch: Hey, what weapons work best for a dual-wielding kensai?

This post may look familiar to some of you.

From a powergaming perspective, Flails would be the best choice for a Kensai.
The more times a Kensai strikes in a round, the more efficient he is.
That is obvious - a Kensai is no tank, so in order to survive, he needs to kill his enemies before they kill him.
So this leads us to Dual Wielding.

Now, why Flails?
A Kensai WILL get hit.
A lot.
So AC is almost nothing - you'll get hit either way.
Damage Resistance, on the other hand, is everything.
The only weapon that gives Damage Resistance is the Defender of Easthaven - a Flail.
It gives 20% Damage Resistance and +1 AC.
We'll put him in the off hand.

On the right hand we want something really damaging.
We want something can lower the opponent attack rate so we'll get hit less.
We want something with elemental damage so we can hit Stoneskinned mages.
We want the Flail of Ages. [img]smile.gif[/img]

But since a Kensai is a sword saint and all... [img]tongue.gif[/img]

[DJG]

Originally posted by Alson: But since a Kensai is a sword saint and all... [img]tongue.gif[/img]

.....But I've learnt from experience, the word 'Sword' is not to be taken too literally in Baldur's Gate.

Sword and Shield Style will work just as well with a Mace as it will with a Long Sword.

So a Kensai wielding flails, in my opinion is as much of a Kensai as one wielding Celestial Fury and the Equiliser.