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DallevianThu 17-Sep-15 12:27 PM
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#60600, "dual wield and parry"


          

so I know that since Zulgh reworked dual wield and parry several years back, offhand weapon adds a boost to parry (and can be used to parry). or something like that.

my question is, let's say i'm a thief, all things equal, will i parry the same regardless of sword in mainhand and dagger in dual compared to dagger in main and sword in dual? or does the dual wield only a fractional additive boost to the mainhand parry, so sword + dagger is better because sword is always better than dagger in parrying?

thanks

  
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UmironThu 17-Sep-15 01:17 PM
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#60611, "RE: dual wield and parry"
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Disclaimer: the parry code is LONG and I only skimmed it.

If you are dual wielding, it's 50/50 which hand and weapon you will attempt to parry with, at which point all the usual rules apply. So sword+sword beats sword+dagger, but sword+dagger vs. dagger+sword should make no difference.

  
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DallevianThu 17-Sep-15 01:59 PM
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#60615, "wow, totally not what i expected"
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and for warriors, kind of makes taking balance of the sisters even less important already for things like mace/dagger or sword/flail as opposed to flail/sword

  
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KstatidaThu 17-Sep-15 02:01 PM
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#60616, "Idea: Tweaking BoS"
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so that you would parry with the better parrying weapon say 75% of the time would breathe some fresh air into the legacy. Doesn't seem to be too popular now.

  
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