On Sat, 12 Jun 1999, J.M. Capozzi wrote:

>
> Since dual wield checks to see if it goes off every swing cycle, more speed
> means more chances to dual wield, netting a HUGE increase in damage over
> time by using a faster weapon. HUGE.

I'd disagree with this. If you're using different speed
weapons, the dual wield check seems to be asynchronous with
your primary weapon. I've watched several times as my
off-hand would swing, pause, primary, pause, off-hand, pause,
primary, etc.

If this is correct and the dual wield check is made every
swing cycle of the off-hand weapon, then the weapon speed does
not matter. If your dual wield goes off 30% of the time, then
it will increase your damage 30% regardless of what the weapon
speed is.

*Most* of the times dual-wield succeeds it seems to be
sychronized, so there may be more to it. Perhaps it only goes
asynchronous after a successful dual wield, and after a
failure the next check is synchronous with your primary hand?
That seems a rather convoluted way to program it; but if
that's the case, then Mr. Capozzi is correct, although the
increase in damage is not quite HUGE :-), and this advantage
becomes less the better you get at dual wield.

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John H. Kim
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