Weapons skills/proficiencies

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• atcDave Member Posts: 2,150

  July 2013

  The styles are supposed to only apply to melee weapons.

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• ZanathKariashi Member Posts: 2,869

  July 2013

  Sword/Shield does, because it actually just requires you have a shield equipped. You MH weapon is ignored.
  
  Single weapon and two-handed do not (and say so in the description).

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• TJ_Hooker Member Posts: 2,438

  July 2013 edited July 2013

  Sword and Shield style does not apply when using ranged weapons and a shield, for slings or any other 1 handed ranged weapon. At least, not in BG:EE (although I don't remember it doing so in BG2 either).

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• Tresset Member, Moderator Posts: 8,264

  July 2013

  If only there were a style for ranged weapons...

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• zur312 Member Posts: 1,366

  July 2013 edited July 2013

  i wonder is it better to have at level 1 dual wielding ** for example 2x katana ** or 2handed sword ** and two handed weapon style **
  
  thaco for the first one would be lower
  plus two handed weapons is +1 dmg +critical hit at 19
  
  i don't know how to do math like this for effective use of weapons ;P

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• TJ_Hooker Member Posts: 2,438

  July 2013

  zur312 said:

  i wonder is it better to have at level 1 dual wielding ** for example 2x katana ** or 2handed sword ** and two handed weapon style **
  
  thaco for the first one would be lower
  plus two handed weapons is +1 dmg +critical hit at 19
  
  i don't know how to do math like this for effective use of weapons ;P

  Dual wielding katanas:
  Average damage per round= [5.5(base)+2(specialization)]x5/2 APR=18.75
  
  Two-handed sword:
  Average damage per round= [5.5(base)+2(specialization)+1(weapon style)]x1.05(weapon style)x3/2 APR= 13.3875
  
  These are very simplified results, as they assume that every attack is a hit. In reality the two numbers would be closer, as you're going to be hitting less often with the offhand katana. I think that actually taking into account differences in THAC0 is pretty much impossible unless you're doing it on a case by case basis, looking at the ACs of specific enemies.

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• zur312 Member Posts: 1,366

  July 2013

  so you can compare for example dual katana vs worg
  2handed sword vs worg
  
  than something tanky like wyvern
  
  great post from you thx!

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