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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Why is my One Handed so slow?

« on: April 02, 2012, 08:22:33 pm »

Level 24 now, and starting to actually contribute.  The left swing thing I never knew about and has helped me the most so far.  I still get rocked by most people, but I get the occasional archer kill, or lucky kill on some person I believe to be 30.

I made the mistake of throwing some points into throwing which Im regretting now, hoping I had thrown that all into one handed more.  Got like 129 weapon proficiency, and still wear light armour/lightshield.  Been trying the Italian sword now instead of the Nordic Short.  It's not as bad as it was when I started, but I think Im going to try two hander next Gen.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Why is my One Handed so slow?

« on: March 30, 2012, 10:36:43 pm »

No, you wrote that he fails because of reach and then suggested that he gets a shorter weapon.
It is absolutely not a retarded idea to suggest to a newbie to use a super short weapon that he will be struggling to hit enemies with

It was a speed issue I suffered from.  People with two handers hitting me before I hit them when Im basically hugging them.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Why is my One Handed so slow?

« on: March 29, 2012, 08:58:22 am »

Practice, young one. You can't expect to become good in a day.

I know Im kind of judging this before getting 'good' at it, but Im really feeling at the brute end of the stick for this.  I've roughed it out through peasant up to level 22 now, and I wouldn't call myself a shabby gamer, but too often it feels like Im just cannon fodder.  Only really good for standing at a flag in Siege.

Oddly my less savy friend who plays this seems to be doing better than me.  I don't want to say it's because he's using a two hander, and Im using one hander, but I out perform him in any other game that requires more twitch based skill.

It's very frustrating, and Im trying to learn, but it's feeling far more work than worth right now.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Why is my One Handed so slow?

« on: March 29, 2012, 08:50:37 am »

Tried it out, still getting smoked by two handers, and pole arm users.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Why is my One Handed so slow?

« on: March 29, 2012, 02:39:03 am »

What about an Arabian Straight Sword?  Those are the two I have currently.  One for reach, the other for speed.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Why is my One Handed so slow?

« on: March 28, 2012, 11:32:05 pm »

I haven't had a chance to try it yet(the left swing that is, didn't know it was quicker).  I wear rather light armour minus helmet, and gloves.  My shield is one of the quickets I could grab, I have 6 into shields, and use the Nordic Shortsword.

My ping ranges from 90-100 usually.

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I also just want to thank everyone who has contributed so far to this.  I'm actually not used to a community as friendly or helpful as this.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Why is my One Handed so slow?

« on: March 28, 2012, 04:16:54 pm »

I could see the turning while swinging thing.  Also would ping/shields contribute to the slowness?  Say the delay in lowering the shield, then the delay in swinging the weapon?

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Why is my One Handed so slow?

« on: March 28, 2012, 08:07:14 am »

It could just be Im against people with 200 two handed skills, but using the fastest one hander I can, and about 109 points into one handed mastery, I get outswung by people with claymores, and polearms.  There has to be something Im doing wrong.