Well, the main problem is the people I group with most often are 20th level
or thereabouts. If I dual wield when grouped with them I get the snot
pounded out of me. The 23 points of AC (raising me to 393) versus the three
mobs usually beating on me far outweighs the measily second hand damage I do
to the one mob I'm swinging at. About the only time I get to use dual wield
is soloing, or when grouped with their lower level characters who are
12-14th now. Also I've been soloing mostly spiders lately for silk so have
kept the chitin shell shield up for the extra poison resist. A 33% increase
in my poison resistance is a big deal when fighting poisoners. I imagine it
will max out before I exceed 18th level, but that's still a ways off for me
as of yet.

Kitasi

-----Original Message-----
From: Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4 [mailto:g4mntofcr@...]
Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 3:19 PM
To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
Subject: RE: [eqbards] Elf Hide Gloves

From: "Reece, Tom - 25IDL G4" <g4mntofcr@...>

Kitasi,

Not certain what you are doing different but I maxed out my dual wield skill
before I ever reached 18th level. I had a dragoon dirk equipped in the off
hand so that helped. I also put ten training points into it so, assuming
one initial training point gave me a skill level of 17, my dual wield skill
was 27 when I actually started using it. Since 18th level, my dual wield
skill, as well as all combat skills, still maxes out for my level within an
hour or so of levelling.

Galtin of E'ci

> that's ridiculous. I have dual wield at 17th, close to the level it
> starts
> at I think I'm at 23? in it and it goes off for me 10% of the time. Not
> that it hits for all of that 10% of the time. Even a first level monk
> with
> dual wield at 10 sees it go off more than 1% of then time.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kim@... [mailto:kim@...]
> Sent: Thursday, October 07, 1999 2:42 PM
> To: 'eqbards@onelist.com'
> Subject: RE: [eqbards] Elf Hide Gloves
>
>
> From: <kim@...>
>
> On Thu, 7 Oct 1999, Kimes, Dean W. wrote:
> >
> > I know warrior's don't get bellow but don't they have double attack by
> then
> > and dual wield? If so even at dmg 2 they'd be the equivalent of 5/25 or
> so
> > which is a combine scimmy.
>
> I'm not sure what level they get the skills, but at that level
> the skill is bound to be so low it'll only go off like 1% or
> 2% of the time, making very little difference in the overall
> damage.
>
> > I didn't have a magic weapon until 13th level
> > and that was a dirk at 25p. I couldn't have afforded a combine back
> then
> > because I was too busy having fun to make money ;)
>
> My highest "trade" skill is begging, at 37. I play the game
> to have fun too. I've never really tried to make money. I
> guess my high charisma gave me enough of a boost with selling
> prices that I had 60pp saved up by L12.
>
> --
> John H. Kim
> kim@...
>
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