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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Spears.... whats the trick?

« on: April 21, 2011, 04:29:50 am »

You have to learn to spin-stab.  Its kinda hard to explain without visual aid.

Basically you start the stab aiming to the right and down from your target, then as the animation nears its end you turn into your target for the hit.  This allows the full animation to go off and the spear to do full damage, so that you don't bounce/glance.

If anyone has a video demonstrating this please post it.

You could also follow people like Noobie_ATS or WaltF4 in spectator mode on the NA servers, they are masters of spears/awlpikes.

EDIT: Yes, hitboxes are a little off as well, but the spin stab almost assures a hit.  You can also spin-stab with high athletics and a little footwork to hit shielders in the back/side.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Throwing lances accuracy

« on: April 21, 2011, 12:28:22 am »

Off topic:  The amount of spelling and grammar errors in this thread is amazing.

On topic:  I think it is because the accuracy stat on throwing lances is so much lower than the other throwing weapons.  If I'm not mistaken that stat will control how it scales with wpf in addition to decreasing base accuracy.

P.S.  I am posting from my phone, so no excuses from the rest of you on your spelling/grammar.

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General Discussion / Re: Penalty with shield

« on: April 19, 2011, 07:48:57 pm »

I know in native that penalty with shield reduces damage and speed by 35%.  I'm not sure about cRPG or if its different from horseback.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Using new PC can I get old character?

« on: April 15, 2011, 12:47:41 am »

So my hardrive crashed on me so I got a replacement, so I had a character on here, can I play as him on this computer somehow? Because when I go to play I have to create a new character....

Just give the new character the same name as the one you where using before, as long as you used the same cd key this will work.

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General Discussion / Re: Unusual fighting styles

« on: April 15, 2011, 12:06:30 am »

Recently I have been attempting to master Backwards Fighting with my flamberge.  Will be epic if I can get used to it.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Shield on back

« on: April 14, 2011, 11:54:27 pm »

On the NA server I might be a moderate challenge, but on any others my ping may make me a menace to myself in a duel server if I go melee. I could always do this though if you are interested.

I play NA, so may hit you up sometime, posting all this from work on my phone, so won't be on for a few hours still.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Shield on back

« on: April 14, 2011, 11:32:29 pm »

Board shield is very bad for this, even with 6 shield skill a lot of shots went through because of it's sideways position when placed on back.

Foiled again, damn your science and testing!

Really though, thanks for testing this.  Guess I'll have to make a character to do this with steel/lolscarl.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Shield on back

« on: April 14, 2011, 11:29:40 pm »

Then I shall giggle like a loon and commend you for being unique and having fun!

This is a goal of mine, want to help me practice on the duel server sometime?

I have surprised a couple of people with backwards overheads and sidways swings, hardest part is that you can't turn while using the camera to look behind yourself.  I wonder if I can bind turning to the keyboard......how did I not think of this sooner?

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Shield on back

« on: April 14, 2011, 11:19:39 pm »

Oddly enough, I usually shoot people from the front, and only cav in the back.

And when I finally perfect my secret art of backwards fighting with my spamberge and only present my armored turtle shell back with black plate underneath, what then?  WHAT THEN?!?!?

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Shield on back

« on: April 14, 2011, 11:07:54 pm »

It block arrows quite often but it seems to be linked to your shield skill. So unless you have 5-6 shield skill to get the forcefield effect it's pretty useless.

Well maybe 2 shield skill with a board shield then.

I WILL find a way to abuse this discovery to annoy ranged users.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Shield on back

« on: April 14, 2011, 10:16:24 pm »

Tested this extensively this morning with Punisher and Astinus. It works, but it's not worth it. Also the shield forcefield on back seems sometimes quite random.

I was thinking of throwing a hide shield (12 armor) on my back when using full black plate and a full str build.  Is it just because of the move speed reduction that you think its not worth it?  Or does it just not block arrows most of the time?

Still haveing like 98 armor on my back sounds nice.

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General Discussion / Re: Unusual fighting styles

« on: April 14, 2011, 07:10:32 pm »

Hah!
Do you not remember the Adholeas method?

I miss him, he was funny, left to right attacks only, almost never blocked, and somehow topped the scoreboards.

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General Discussion / Re: Pikeman Outfit.

« on: April 14, 2011, 12:43:08 am »

It looks much better in game then in the picture.

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Beginner's Help and Guides / Re: Shield on back

« on: April 14, 2011, 12:40:29 am »

<@cmpxchg8b> they add (shield_armor + 10) to your armor

Arena shield has next to no shield armor. Steel shield has lots of it.

Oh I'm retarded, I read that as shield_armor of 10 not the shield's armor + 10.

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General Discussion / Re: Pikeman Outfit.

« on: April 14, 2011, 12:35:34 am »

Have you tried the Scale Armor?  Can't post pictures, but it looks something like what you want.  Also use a Swiss Halberd, more "pikey" then the pike imo.