Melee weaponry and its ideal applications

because between armor and a shield it's insanely easy to get up via gear.

 

Swords - Counterattacking
Staves - Blocking and Mpower
Axes - Crits
Maces - Knockback and some minor crit boost
Unarmed - Dual Shielding, blocking and countering.

For melee and magic, Staves is the best option for nuking and Axes if you get into the melee more often. The rest seem more for the squishy mage type.

 

I had over 100 block with Celestial Circle and two shields. It was pretty lulzy.

 

I'm in agreement with J-factor, I wish combat was handled in this way in the game.

 

Hot SHIT!

I LOVE YOU GUYS!

I'm literally getting wet in the eyes from the overwhelming coolness. This is exactly what makes hanging out here so worthwhile.

 

Heehee, now everyone re-tools their mods because negating enemy crit chance is no longer needed (and probably in fact OP when combined with 100 dodge or block)

 

Yep! I'm already trying to think of something else really neat to do with Kiaido.

 

Knockback always makes you feel awesome There's a good reason knockback has leaked out of wuxia into pretty much every mainstream action movie in hollywood!

 

zawesome!

 

I reckon it'll be better. It might still be necessary to change the hit-result calculation procedures, but right now it's better than it was, because it means the great "counter-crit-crit" combo won't be happening as often.

Granted, that also means blocking got slightly nerfed (whether that's good or not is yet to be seen) and dodging got buffed (which isn't exactly the best thing here, but I guess it'll be fine if EDR does its job), but the balance is still slightly better than it was before, when critical triumphed over everything and counter was second to that, with everything else being less important.

 

Wait, how is block nerfed since it can now reduces crits damage by half ?

 

Because, unless I am now mistaken, it halves damage if it works now and before it reduced it to 25% instead of 50%. And the fact that it can affect critical hits now means that it's only a slight nerf.
I'm talking about it in general, critical hits outside of the image.

 

Yeah, I think it stills makes it more usefull when its really needed. A bit more damage all the time but less in those situations where you are really threaten. Good deal to me. : )

 

The block formula divides mundane ( // ) damage by 4 and exotic damage by 2.

(I never intended changing the blocking formula - 'half damage' was just a lazy way to say it)

 

Here's hoping they didn't change that.

 

Criticals dont seem to multiply the exotic damage, do they?

 

Criticals just double your .

 

Which just adds to your primary damage type ( // ), correct? (I've only actually used weapons)