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Re: Niuweidao vs. Katana
« Reply #30 on: June 29, 2012, 06:14:33 am »
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how is it not a weeabo weapon, its a chinese sword rather than japanese is all ;p

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Re: Niuweidao vs. Katana
« Reply #31 on: June 29, 2012, 08:39:00 am »
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Hey tydeus, i like 1h over 2 even without shield. And that is an awesome weapond.  Those fast swords do monster damage when hit in the dome. Also no wonky stab
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Re: Niuweidao vs. Katana
« Reply #32 on: June 29, 2012, 08:44:11 am »
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I've seen Darian use the Niuweidao and being quite deadly with it.
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Re: Niuweidao vs. Katana
« Reply #33 on: June 29, 2012, 09:41:13 am »
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arent you a 1h/2h hybrid anyways tydeus?

Why not bring both

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Re: Niuweidao vs. Katana
« Reply #34 on: June 29, 2012, 11:26:54 pm »
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He is farfel,an archer.
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Re: Niuweidao vs. Katana
« Reply #35 on: June 30, 2012, 03:43:55 pm »
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Since they allowed you to transfer looms to and from alts, I ditched my super awesome 1h/2h/cav/shield/pole/zero IF/super-bad, build. Tydeus is 21/21 2h, Farfel is currently 1h/archer and soon to be either 1h + shield or 1h no shield, again.

I have been trying out the katana on Tydeus and truth be told, I feel like the Niuweidao is actually more effective. Maybe 20% of the Katana thrusts actually do more than just glance, so I really just can't consider it as any sort of an advantage. Against an armored opponent, it just doesn't do anything at all. I'd rather them just remove it in all honestly. At least then you could never accidentally thrust when you're too close to your opponent and end up stunning yourself.
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Re: Niuweidao vs. Katana
« Reply #36 on: June 30, 2012, 05:06:25 pm »
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I don't understand why the Niuweidao doesn't have a stab. You can certainly stab with that kind of a point, probably not effective but entirely possible. If the Katana can stab, so can the Niu. Balance I guess.

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Re: Niuweidao vs. Katana
« Reply #37 on: June 30, 2012, 05:20:48 pm »
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I liked the Niuweidao a lot, after holding on to your +3 one for a little while when you were gone Tydeus, I noticed I could stomp in melee pretty bad even with barely any PS, when I was leveling a 1hand cav hybrid.  Later on I was doing a 15/24 agi shielder/polearm hybrid, and focusing on hunting archers and stuff for a change of pace from being a cav lance griefer or 2handed greatsword hero.

I found the Niuweidao to be one of the best damn 1handers in the game for sure, and I was able to abuse its high speed in ways I can never do with a longsword or katana, though to be fair I haven't really tried the katana too much, as a 2handed sword without a stab (might as well not have one) you lose too much utility imo.

With the Niuweidao, I was able to beat a ton of other melee, especially shielders and even decent ones, by abusing the ever living shit out of left swing circle strafing spam.  With high athletics, its really hard to have the presence of mind, footwork, and reaction time to effectively counter this kind of weapon while facehugging.  A quick overhead after blocking a big strong 2 hander is usually a free hit with that thing too.

I eventually traded it away though, because I found the reach too limiting in a lot of situations.  Namely, even with pretty low armor weight  and 8 athletics, I would be able to get at most 1 hit in on an archer before they accelerated out of my reach, which pissed me off to no end.  I probably would've had to switch to peasant clothes to be able to use it to hunt archers, but I like fighting in groups too and you just can't do that with cloth (because of team wounds of course).  Maybe if I worked on right swing abuse more I could've adapted too, but meh.  So I gave up and switched to elite scimitar for that gen :(

And I honestly think the elite scimitar is the stronger weapon, but the niuweidao is better for 1 vs 1s in melee.  I should've tried it with maxed weapon master, I bet then it becomes one hell of a joke.
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Re: Niuweidao vs. Katana
« Reply #38 on: June 30, 2012, 07:41:32 pm »
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Re: Niuweidao vs. Katana
« Reply #39 on: June 30, 2012, 07:55:34 pm »
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absorbing axes into the shield is better than thy face

Avoiding the axe all together, is better than thy shield :D

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Just because something's weaboo doesn't automatically make it weeabo. The Katana is only a weeabo weapon in the hands of the Ninja clans running around in their black pyjamas with their ninja stars.

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Re: Niuweidao vs. Katana
« Reply #40 on: July 16, 2012, 09:24:18 pm »
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Niuweidao.

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Re: Niuweidao vs. Katana
« Reply #41 on: July 16, 2012, 11:51:39 pm »
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ive never considered the niuweidao o.O

that being said if youre not going to use a shield id still go for the katana, its just that much more easier to kill bads faster with in battle, the faster you kill the more you survive

if youre going to sit on the duel server and avoid cavrpg battle id go for the niuwesadasdfsdfgsfdao thou