Lair Larrikin
Posts: 18
Joined: Friday, 13th June 2014, 15:15
Unarmed Combat
I just started playing a rather promising Ghoul of Qazlal. My question is about unarmed combat and the penalties, that are due to armour and shields.
In my testing, switching between "no armor" and a chain mail gave only a minimal difference in attack speed. (With zero Armour skill, that is.) It changed from "above average" to average. More armour skill could reduce that, even, I think.
Later, I tried a buckler to increase survivability and it actually reduced my attack speed from "quite fast" to "above average", even though I had already trained Shields up to level 8. I seem to remember though, that somewhere on the wiki it says that you can overcome the shield-penalty by training shields to a certain level.
So, I am asking for advice, whether using a buckler or shield is worth it, and/or if I should wear plate armour, because the penalty of heavy armours seems to be negligible.
Thank you.