When wielding a two-handed weapon, your chances of getting a critical hit while bashing are 1/2 that of a blademaster or bonecrusher.

Two-handers should either have a 2x chance of landing criticals or should have a higher chance of dealing out the more powerful criticals.

THAT'S ALL KTHX.

Only if this is applied to cosmicfire, moonburst, cudgel, and staff too.

Two-handers do more damage while bashing as far as it's explained to me, why should they also do twice as much wounding? Half as much seems to balance things.

I suggest that it does!

Actually, how does mage/guardian bashing damage compare to a warrior's? I know that early on (Levels 1-30) Mages blow Warriors away in bashing.

And wiccans don't need any more help.

You have a 1/2 chance of dealing a 2x more powerful critical. It's mathematically equivalent, in terms of total number of hit points of damage dealt per unit time.

If things are as they should be, 2 one-hand swings will, on average, equal one two-handed swing in damage. Due to criticals, though, One-handers have an easier time bashing.

Also, two-handers already do twice as much wounding. I'm talking about VS. Denizens.

Ahh. Gwylifar just kicked my ass.

I'm done.

Nah, I'm just (mis)quoting Roark, he's the genius here.

2 handed damage while bashing isn't equal to one handed bashing for me, even without criticals. With a 336 damage axe it takes 9 swings to kill 1 aslaran warrior. It takes 6 combos to kill a aslaran warrior using 333 combined damage broadswords. Needless to say, a poor axelord like me is reduced to using broads while bashing!

Yeah, it really does feel like there's still a cap on 2H weapons. I know forging weapons with 480 is pretty achievable if they're 1h, but I'm hard pressed to even forge a claymore with 460. It also still feels like there's a damage curb going on, as Athalas describes it. Needless to say, I won't be runing anything until this is worked out.

Eh? I hope you meant 380 and 360. I've forged probably a hundred claymores, and nothing has been above this in damage. Unless they changed the forging outcomes in the last couple months?

460 is like having 2 230 damage flails. That's absurd.

I meant totals, after dividing by 2 or 2.2.

oh, ok. My bad then. Yeah, those numbers are fine then.

If my memory serves, mine is around 480, 477 I think. That's dividing damage by two and precision by 2.2.

I've also noticed decreased effectiveness at bashing as a Pureblader than as a Blademaster. But I do not think giving two handers a increased chance of criticals is the answer. Then again, a solution should be found, but I would rather that the problems that two handers have in actual combat be resolved first.

Well, you can't kill two mobs in one double swing anymore.