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Offline Logen

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Re: 2 weapons dominate 2h/pole.
« Reply #195 on: March 08, 2012, 12:00:19 am »
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read post real carefully
oh come on now xant, ppl dont do that.
asking them do it is simply outrageous.
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Re: 2 weapons dominate 2h/pole.
« Reply #196 on: March 08, 2012, 02:42:49 am »
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Fuck spears.

The true item of a warrior that is always overlooked by popular culture and hollywood is the shield. Shields = the mark of a warrior, but I guess it does not look fancy enough.

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Re: 2 weapons dominate 2h/pole.
« Reply #197 on: March 08, 2012, 11:34:24 am »
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You cant say spears are sexy...nope.
Esthetic and engineering point of view, they are designed for a certain purpose, which they surely fullfill  good....but thats it.

They look cheap, unfancy, purposebuild.

Swords and some polearms just instantly give you the feeling that there is knowhow, knowledge needed to produce them. Besides that, they look powerful.

This only accounts for few polearms though,
Poleaxes (PA, EPA,GPA).


GLA for example is ugly, purposebuild but atleast looks powerful.
Its cut damage is awesome, its lil short with low agi, the stab actually is bad.

It has great pros and great cons.
German Poleaxe is superior in every way, for me atleast.
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Re: 2 weapons dominate 2h/pole.
« Reply #198 on: March 08, 2012, 11:54:23 am »
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Re: 2 weapons dominate 2h/pole.
« Reply #199 on: March 08, 2012, 12:00:36 pm »
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Isee Vibe that you are proud of being Zulu ;)

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Re: 2 weapons dominate 2h/pole.
« Reply #200 on: March 08, 2012, 05:58:07 pm »
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Let's face it guys, the majority don't know or really care if there were real "heroes" wielding spears.

Think of the word "Medieval" and the thing that will most likely pop up first in your head is a plate-wearing knight wielding the biggest sword around, perhaps mounted on-top of a warhorse with the background of a castle or some combination of it.

All I'm saying is, popular culture with the sword burnt into most people's mind is a contributing factor for great sword popularity. At least it did for me, back in the days. :P

Massive swords are for the elite knights, spears are for the lowly peasants. Which weapon do you think most people would chose?


Flange mace or morning star.....knight killers in irl.
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Re: 2 weapons dominate 2h/pole.
« Reply #201 on: March 09, 2012, 12:33:56 pm »
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Out of 15 people, Xant, of all people, is the only one who gets it.

I give up.
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Re: 2 weapons dominate 2h/pole.
« Reply #202 on: March 09, 2012, 12:34:02 pm »
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I think the shorter weapons should get a speed buff instead of giving the long ones a damage nerf. It is very heavy to swing a long weapon/item, while a shorter weapon is lighter to swing. Therefore the speed of the shorter ones should be increased to reflect this. That way the ~125 length weapons will no longer dominate, and people who want speed will go for shorter, and those who want length has to live with less speed.

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Re: 2 weapons dominate 2h/pole.
« Reply #203 on: March 09, 2012, 02:29:28 pm »
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Out of 15 people, Xant, of all people, is the only one who gets it.

I give up.
I got it, I just disagree personally. Despite all the efforts from popular culture to portray swords as the 'badass hero weapon', I am a great fan of spears and spears would be my first pick as a weapon if they werent portrayed so shitty in this game.

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Re: 2 weapons dominate 2h/pole.
« Reply #204 on: March 09, 2012, 04:13:13 pm »
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Fuck spears.

The true item of a warrior that is always overlooked by popular culture and hollywood is the shield. Shields = the mark of a warrior, but I guess it does not look fancy enough.

Ya, unfortunately in popular culture the hero NEVER uses a shield. Not really sure why, but it's always a two handed sword. The random other characters that generally end up dying amusing deaths are the ones with shields.

Personally I'd like to see a hero that uses a Pike and does ballet jumps with it while fighting!  :lol:
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Re: 2 weapons dominate 2h/pole.
« Reply #205 on: March 09, 2012, 05:28:23 pm »
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Achilles used a shield and is one of the most bad ass popular culture heroes ever?!
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Re: 2 weapons dominate 2h/pole.
« Reply #206 on: March 09, 2012, 05:48:59 pm »
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Ya, unfortunately in popular culture the hero NEVER uses a shield.

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Re: 2 weapons dominate 2h/pole.
« Reply #207 on: March 09, 2012, 05:54:15 pm »
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Re: 2 weapons dominate 2h/pole.
« Reply #208 on: March 09, 2012, 05:57:07 pm »
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Ya, unfortunately in popular culture the hero NEVER uses a shield. Not really sure why, but it's always a two handed sword. The random other characters that generally end up dying amusing deaths are the ones with shields.

Personally I'd like to see a hero that uses a Pike and does ballet jumps with it while fighting!  :lol:

Not exactly ballet jumps, but Red Cliff is by far my favorite "war" movie ever.  Wish they made some movies about European history and battles in the same style as Red Cliff....if you haven't seen it, I'd recommend it.  Most of the "heroes" wield spears and pike type weapons.


Towards the end of the movie Zhao Yun pole vaults over a wall with a long spear.

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Also, in this horse duel with lances the riders do some pretty acrobatic movements (bracing spears off the ground):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tj_jB-bp7es

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Re: 2 weapons dominate 2h/pole.
« Reply #209 on: March 09, 2012, 06:18:51 pm »
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Well I wouldn't really call Achilles popular culture. Plenty of ancient stories have heroes with shields, it's the modern Hollywood ones that lack them.

Ok and yes, I forgot about Captain America.  :lol:

I actually got Red Cliff recently, been meaning to watch it but haven't gotten around to it yet.
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