Does it take Only the Halberd skill (and Mech) to forge a Halberd?
Or do you need to train Pikes and Quarterstaves as well?

I understand that halberd forging is pretty buggy anyway, though there are a couple of people who actually do it. It wouldn't hurt to train pikes as well as halberd just in case.

Ryeka


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If I remember right, the various forging factor calculators out there use pike, halberd, quarterstaff, and short staff together. It's been a while since I've seen one though, so I could be incorrect.

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anyone still forging these??

Rayje? Beliel??

if you don't mind if you do pop around or if you don't mind passing my IM on to Jensene i'd love a chance to by one
my IM is Thywill15

I've got the partisan too. The natural balance to terrific damage is, of course, terrific weight. 65 stones. It's like a store-bought lochabar axe (which means it's very good) and has the added incentive of being a QS as well.

I don't really use it too much right now. The downside is the weight. I'm just too young; even with 30 strength I am getting 10 second RT with it for some maneuvers. It hits like a freight train, though. Keep it. It's the most destructuve QS you can find, bar none, and it's a great halberd too. If you're strong and agile enough to wield it now with reasonable RT (5 or 6 seconds) it'd be fantastic. If not, it will be someday. But yes, it's considered very good, by me at least.

Halberd form seems more like a Tzece not lochbar axe. If you have the strength to use it then I'm sure its a kickass weapon. I dont know to much about staffs but I'd guess the mod slice and great impact make it a nice one if you have the strength to swing it. If your just starting to train halberds and are a younger character you cant go wrong useing a short hafted halberd from Theren.

Thanks,
Kleis

Izude you just made me very jelous. Halberd is my primary weapon and I still dont have min rt with my forged 43 stone one. Any how if you dont mind let me know how that beast of a weapon your useing works


Thanks,
Kleis

What are moderate stats? 20's? 30's? 40's? I don't necessarily need to have minimum roundtime to use a weapon. But I want to make sure that I can swing it enough to keep myself balanced and kill the critter before it can kill me.


Nikpack
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>What are moderate stats?

Somewhere in the 60-70 range now I think. Most folks are at least at 50+ in all stats by now, most likely.

>I don't necessarily need to have minimum roundtime to use a weapon.

I just get moderate round times and don't worry about it. As long as I'm not up in the 9-10 range, I'm actually ok with it. At circle, I like to be in the 1-3 total range, but I'll take 3-4 if it means more stuns/damage.

I think the majority of people are just spoiled by having main stats up in the 80+ range. You don't really need them that high, although it does look like it would be nice, which is why my paladin works so many weapons.

I mean his tertiary weapon, which he can use at circle, is a 52 stone broadsword, which yeah, it takes him 4-6 seconds to swing. Thing is, it does so much damage, well, the critters don't stand much of a chance anyways. <g>

>50 in all stats min is way too high

Well considering you get 5555 TDPs just from having all weapons at 100, that's just the start. Then you get one for every other rank past that. Easy. Didn't you do that by 10th circle?

But honestly, I just don't see that you actually need stats much past the 50's range. Most critters just aren't that hard to take down once you get your roundtimes under the 7 second range, and unless they're a major swarmer, it's six of one. At least up through the 40's, which is where my highest hunter is now. Admittedly, there's only a couple of weeks for most folks between 4th and 40th, but there ya have it.

Lets take that claymore of mine, for example. (And yeah, it's a claymore, not a broadsword.) If it gets a substantial hit, it doesn't matter if my chara is in roundtime for the next 3 seconds or the next 6, because if it's stunnable, it's down. Even if it's not, anything but undead is gonna get knocked off balance or even off its feet. By the time it's back up again, I've recovered.

Yes, this will get fixed eventually, I'm sure, because it's not the standard method of combat and one of the primary goals of DR development is making everyone the same, but until it does get fixed, it's something that makes the heavier weapons viable, particularly those with signifigant impact.

>Well considering you get 5555 TDPs just from having all weapons at 100, that's just the start.

You are off by a factor of 10 in your calculations. Your opinions are off by an even greater degree, I'm afraid.

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yeah i'm setto ignore any and all facts and numbers placed in Sakara's posts

let's see base 60th circle war mage (assuming 80 point roll in CM and 100+circle at 10) no over training or anything (bare minimum) nets 8885 TDPs. a 83 circle warmage would net about 15811 TDPs so for a base 50 in all stats a 83rd circle warmage would need to gain an additional 12,125 TDPs from various other skills. far from "moderate" this is a pretty high level char.


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