Has anyone else noticed that 1 handers glance many many times more often then 2 handers. For example, today I was playing with my main with a master work arabian cav sword 36 cut damage with 7 Power Strike, and I kept glancing off, the last round I played I glanced off 6 times ( including 2 off of Voester's thick head), very frustrating.One-handed animations are far picker about their sweet spots than two-handed animations. I can consistently do damage to Voester with 6 PS and 30c side-swings on my long espada, so you should definitely be able to hurt him with the ACS.
Compare this to my alt 2 hander also with 7 Power strike also with 36 damage (longsword) and I never glance with him. Anyone else noticed this? And anyone else finds this a bit odd?
You might not be used to the animations. The right swing for example can glance if you don't center your target.
Thrust can be tricky to turn sometimes and can glance if you are too close.
Left swing and overhead basically never glance, and they are head magnets.
It is true that you glance more often with 1h cause you have less damage.
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Sweetspots. All there is to it.But why i need a highdamge "haha" 1h weapon, a lot of PS and proper footwork while with 2hand i only need to leftclick and wave my mouse a bit?
90% of the time a glance is caused by hitting to early or too late in the swing. Proper footwork can solve a lot. Allthough having a high damage mw weapon and lot's of PS also helps :P
But why i need a highdamge "haha" 1h weapon, a lot of PS and proper footwork while with 2hand i only need to leftclick and wave my mouse a bit?
But why i need a highdamge "haha" 1h weapon, a lot of PS and proper footwork while with 2hand i only need to leftclick and wave my mouse a bit?
Has anyone else noticed that 1 handers glance many many times more often then 2 handers. For example, today I was playing with my main with a master work arabian cav sword 36 cut damage with 7 Power Strike, and I kept glancing off, the last round I played I glanced off 6 times ( including 2 off of Voester's thick head), very frustrating.
Compare this to my alt 2 hander also with 7 Power strike also with 36 damage (longsword) and I never glance with him. Anyone else noticed this? And anyone else finds this a bit odd?
Another note that's worth stressing is charging your swings for that second-long time window. Is it 1 second, or 1 1/2, I forget, but you're character will let out an oh-so-manly grunt that gives you an extremely high damage bonus, like 30 or 50%. Holding your swings on occasion helps a ton.Between 0 and 0.5 seconds, the bonus linearly scales from 0% to 50%. Holding for 0.5-0.6 seconds will give you a 50% bonus. After 0.6 seconds, the bonus linearly scales down to 20% at 1.1 seconds.
I dunno man, I think it's about skill, otherwise Royalknight Ito Ittosai or wutever he's called wouldn't be be going 50-4 on every map...2h'ers lagging behind :lol:Well, the MW NCS is obviously the way to go. He's a great player and shows this every map, but he wouldn't pull out stats like that with an unloomed espada. Still I don't know why he's so god damn fast with this sword. :D
Well, the MW NCS is obviously the way to go. He's a great player and shows this every map, but he wouldn't pull out stats like that with an unloomed espada. Still I don't know why he's so god damn fast with this sword. :D
NCS and Elite scim are the top 1h swords without a doubt. While there is only one long espada user on the map, there are usually 5 or more elite scim users. 1h price balance is just fail, elite scim and NCS should be the most expensive 1h swords.
The long espada is so expensive because it's meant to be used without a shield, making it effectively cheaper than a NCS/Shield combination.If that's the justification for the price - okay. But still I rarely see people using it either with or without a shield. The NCS' or Elite Scims are a better choice, even though I really like the long espada. A mw ncs has stats close to the 2h swords damage wise and the high cut makes it much more viable, while the elite scim is a weapon even a chimp would be successful with. They are both more efficient and easier to use, which is also shown by their "overuseness" and therefore they should be more expensive than the LEE imo.
If that's the justification for the price - okay. But still I rarely see people using it either with or without a shield. The NCS' or Elite Scims are a better choice, even though I really like the long espada. A mw ncs has stats close to the 2h swords damage wise and the high cut makes it much more viable, while the elite scim is a weapon even a chimp would be successful with. They are both more efficient and easier to use, which is also shown by their "overuseness" and therefore they should be more expensive than the LEE imo.
If that's the justification for the price - okay. But still I rarely see people using it either with or without a shield. The NCS' or Elite Scims are a better choice, even though I really like the long espada. A mw ncs has stats close to the 2h swords damage wise and the high cut makes it much more viable, while the elite scim is a weapon even a chimp would be successful with. They are both more efficient and easier to use, which is also shown by their "overuseness" and therefore they should be more expensive than the LEE imo.
The long espada is so expensive because it's meant to be used without a shield, making it effectively cheaper than a NCS/Shield combination.
The main problem is on the 1h stab, it glance way too much with sword, if you don't turn into your stab you have no chance of hurting your opponent while 2h can stand straight stab and it won't glance which imho is bullshit if you consider how it is in real life where it's much easier to stab with a 1h.
I have no problem using 1H stab. I've used stab with grosse messer, italian sword and regular espada. Works fine.
This. My long espada glanced today at perfect range/positioning, but I didn't spin it. What a load of BS
Has anyone else noticed that 1 handers glance many many times more often then 2 handers. For example, today I was playing with my main with a master work arabian cav sword 36 cut damage with 7 Power Strike, and I kept glancing off, the last round I played I glanced off 6 times ( including 2 off of Voester's thick head), very frustrating.
Compare this to my alt 2 hander also with 7 Power strike also with 36 damage (longsword) and I never glance with him. Anyone else noticed this? And anyone else finds this a bit odd?
I have no problem using 1H stab. I've used stab with grosse messer, italian sword and regular espada. Works fine.It works fine and if you know how to use it, even the butter knife Espada Eslavona is devastating. But compared to the 2h swords the 1h stab is laughable...
It works fine and if you know how to use it, even the butter knife Espada Eslavona is devastating. But compared to the 2h swords the 1h stab is laughable...
Right-to-left 1h swing glances way too much, even with perfect range/position. Left-to-right and overhead don't seem to suffer from this malady.
That's one reason why I have 7 athletics. I can always keep opponents at the perfect range for me.
Honestly, I rarely glance with a 1h and I have only 6 ps. Generally if I glance, it's because I made a mistake.
The big problem with 1-handers is they will often glance if you're being face-hugged. 2 handers glance much less from that range. It's kind of ironic that 2-handers perform better at really close range than 1-h swords.
That's one reason why I have 7 athletics. I can always keep opponents at the perfect range for me.
I think you'll need atleast 10 if you play in EU.
Naa, with a practice 2h sword and low PS my swings have nearly never glanced off.blunt dmg is blunt dmg....
The main problem is on the 1h stab, it glance way too much with sword, if you don't turn into your stab you have no chance of hurting your opponent while 2h can stand straight stab and it won't glance which imho is bullshit if you consider how it is in real life where it's much easier to stab with a 1h.
This game and crpg are pretty much fucked on this level, you can swing a flammerge like if it was chopsticks.
Atm with my sword which does 24 damage trust combined with 8 PS my swing will glance 50% of the time against an opponent who has more than 40 armor.
.... stab of 1h is as good as stab of 2h. 1h has higher speed which makes it block hits faster when you feint. ...
1h has higher speed which makes it block hits faster when you feint. sometimes it's just hardly possible to block from feinting because of the speed of sword coming to block. It's not insta block. 1h have faster blocks.
Yes, they glance sometimes, and sometimes they almost one hit you.
The only times you can't block are when you're stunned for some reason or when you are in the middle of a swing with an unbalanced weapon.
Starts slow, and ends fast
Starts slow, and ends fast
Starts slow, and ends fast