Ok, I'm planning on having my newbierific faeling Ebonguard take the blademaster specialty. For PvP purposes, he will use dual rapiers...

First question is...Can the ALL the blademaster skills be used in a combo?

Then...For bashing, obviousy, I'd have to switch to a better damage weapon, preferrably one-handed...Any suggestions?

For bashing, use some kind of a masterweapon, longsword or broadsword.

And the way the warrior afflictions work are not skills that you can choose to happen or combo, they work like this (note that they are examples, and not what you'd really expect for numbers):

I hit you for a 100 damage, and 5 wounding. (if you have the skill, you can check WOUNDS to see which body parts have been wounded, they all start at 100%)

I've now gotten you to minor wounds. Anything that says minor wounds in the AB files might happen, from here on out.

So, I hit you for 150 damage, 10 wounding. You get sliced on the forehead.

You now have a minor affliction, and you're at a higher state of wounding, medium now.

I hit you for 100, 5 wounding. You get a punctured lung. Sucks to be you.

You now got a medium affliction, and from here on out, and minor or medium affliction can hit you when I hit you with a weapon, possibly.

I hit you again, 150 damage, 10 wounding. The last hit I did put you into critical, and I slice your head off.

So, as you wound someone more, the afflictions they can get go up, kinda.

Hope this made -some- sense.

Broadswords are good damage, I think.

And no, all the blademaster skills cannot be used in a combo. You can get a maximum of two wound afflictions per hit, i.e two per combo plus poisons etc..

EDIT: It TOTALLY did not have the squiggly lines saying Richter was posting.

So the blademaster skills are kinda randomly delt out, depending on their wound count?

Yeah but its less likely you'll get artery afflictions if their wounding is critical. Stancing also reduces the chance that you will hit or get a heavier affliction.