On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Elijah Meeker wrote:

>
> >Besides, it'd be really really stupid if Verant coded it based
> >on primary weapon. If that were so, you could put a mithril
> >quill (4/16) in your primary and a glowing pike (9/36) in your
> >secondary, and your secondary would act like a 9/16 weapon.
>
> The explanation at the time was that the speed of the offhand weapon wasn't
> ameliorated by the check, meaning if the check said "yes, dual wield" that
> because the offhand weapon wasn't cycled yet that it wouldn't swing. Just
> goes to show how detailed wrong information can be *smile*. Thanks for
> clearing that up.

This explanation never made sense to me because it would mean
they *were* timing the swings of the offhand weapon, but
weren't using that to determine its swing rate. If you're
going to put in a timer to determine if the offhand weapon
hasn't cycled yet, just use it to make it swing with the
proper delay.

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John H. Kim
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