37 stam.
After using the good old 'attack' combo...

[You're fatigued, solidly balanced with opponent in better position.]
And being tired seems to lead to me getting hit quite a bit more.


Jalika


>You've gained a new rank in your ability to steal.

looks like draw/slice/chop


>You've gained a new rank in your ability to steal.

I'm not a fan of any of the readily available LE slicers. The 37-40 stone katars give virtually no balance, so I try to avoid them. If you must go with a slicer I'd say a jambiya is best, but don't use the "attack" command with it because it defaults to a simple thrusting routine which will leave you dead if you use LE at level. I always recommend to folks to use jabbers with LE instead of slicers because they have better balance and still do decent damage. For a semi-readily available weapon I'd suggest using a briquet. My sequence is usually some variation of feint, lunge, thrust, jab modified based on what I'm fighting and how many critters I'm engaged with.


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I parry first then use the feint/draw/feint sweep/slice and continue with chop/pummle or chop/chop/pummle. The feint sweep vs sweep give you the position increase of the sweep, but removes the defensive penalty at the cost of some hitting power. I use this combo with ALL edged.


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I'm a katar junkie but as a rakash I offset the horrid balance with high reflexes.

-Galren Moonskin

Messenger Boy: The Thessalonian you're fighting... he's the biggest man I've ever seen. I wouldn't want to fight him.
Achilles: Thats why no-one will remember your name.

>Katar junkie here as well

I can't say enough how much I completely detest unbalanced weapons.

On a side note, I'd really really like to see some new LE templates in the new forging system that make it possible to craft a weapon with both balance and damage potential, as opposed to one or the other.


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"Just an observation, but you do not seem to know what you are talking about, and the things you say seem generally unintelligent."

<<I want a katar or other variant like an oben that has the same hitting power but weighs 10 stones less or so, or please somebody bump a 39 stone LE's damage output to the equivalent of its 39 stone 2HE counterpart. They are the same mass why would they not do the same damage...at least impact wise. >>

1. This is Dragon Realms, not the real world, things work different here.
2. A 2he is longer, gripped by both hands allowing you toapply its mass better. So even at the same weight, they would do more impact.

If you grind a weapon for edge or point, the impact damage is reduced while the weight stays the same. This implies that Impact damage is not simply weight based.


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OK Thilan, a 2he has more impact than a le because of my first point, Dr and RL are not the same (check on how magic works to prove this).

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Or, how about it just doesn't make sense, and that's just the way it is until it gets(hopefully) fixed. Right now it's ridiculous, in my opinion.


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>>How about it does make sense and in my opinion its rediculous to want your knife to do as much damage as a weapon 5 times its size.

Uh, what? I'm not talking about damage, I'm talking about the fact that most "big" weapons are lighter than "light" or "small" weapons, which is entirely backwards and ridiculous.


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And upping the balance to katars wouldn't hurt either. :) While I don't mind using pure shield when I play with my katars, it would be nice if I could actually parry with them.


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Why? Were they that bad before? I'm sure it was before my time, but I'm pretty curious on if they were that badly overpowered to deserve such a lethal hit to balance.


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>>Why? Were they that bad before? I'm sure it was before my time, but I'm pretty curious on if they were that badly overpowered to deserve such a lethal hit to balance.

Yes, at one time they were "The Weapon", got a slight downtweak, and then SCC weapons and later forging came in. I'm not sure many people have the old ones any more.

mfberg

>>Geez, what made them so good when similar heavy weapons can pretty much get right down close to that RT with much higher damage and suitedness?

Heavy weapons don't have that much suitedness until you're well into the 2HE range.

I am --- Navak

>How about it does make sense and in my opinion its rediculous to want your knife to do as much damage as a weapon 5 times its size. Also remember that katars were actually down tweaked from thier original version because they did do to much damage.


My thing is this...

2HE - you can make (or could make) a bastard sword with Severe slice that has Reasonable balance
HE - you can make (or could make) a bastard sword with Great slice that has Reasonable or high-end Fair balance
ME - you can make (or could make) a scimitar or sabre with Heavy slice/puncture that has Reasonable or high-end Fair balance
LE - you can make (or could make) a katar that has Moderate slice with nothing resembling anything remotely related to the definition of any term that resides within the same vicinity of what someone could exaggerate to the point of calling it balance, or a short sword that has Moderate puncture with Poor Balance.


One of these weapon classes is not like the others... One of these balance ratings just doesn't belong...



There really are not any LE slicers out there that have balance and decent damage. Sure a jambiya works decently against critters, but I've used one in sparring matches and in the pit and the armor arbsorbs all the damage. There are one or two decent LE stabbers out there (briquet for example), but I think the class as a whole needs a makeover.

Nobody is asking for LE weapons to do Severe, Great, or even Heavy damage, but I don't think Moderate damage with more than one-notch-above-none balance is too much to ask.


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