Dual Wield uses the weapons speed of your slowest weapon....
So if you have a dagger with a delay of 6 and a axe with a delay of 15 or
so, your dagger also has a delay of 15 now
-----Original Message-----
From: John Kim <kim@...>
To: eqbards@onelist.com <eqbards@onelist.com>
Date: Saturday, June 12, 1999 11:48 AM
Subject: Re: [eqbards] Not really Bard specific

>From: John Kim <kim@...>
>
>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.
>
>--
>John H. Kim
>kim@...
>
>
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