Blades Runner
Posts: 616
Joined: Thursday, 25th October 2012, 03:19
Change to bucklers
Why?
Because currently, two-handers of all sorts (except for formicids) often fall short of a one-hander and shield combination. Why? Well, it's potentially a long discussion. The short answers are that the best one handers approach similar damage as two-handers but with increased accuracy, while of course you gain extra defense from blocking and you can take advantage of extra brands and artifact stats/properties. I'm aware I could probably be challenged on this assertation, and I can defend it... but I'd rather this not become the main focus. Bottom-line is, for me, I would appreciate not almost all the time finding a two-hander and thinking to myself, gee too bad it's two-handed, POS, chuck.
This change would allow a person to use a two-hander but still potentially take advantage of properties on a buckler, thus somewhat bridging the gap in effectiveness between one-handers and two-handers.