[Varyon]

Originally Posted by Gollum

Learning kime requires many years of training. Beginners only use their basic strength.

Sounds like a decent justification for a Technique or Striking ST (Karate Only).

Originally Posted by Flyndaran

How lonely was the artist? Because I see another specialization that probably had little to do with his occupation.

Well, what sort of knight would he be without a proper sword?

Originally Posted by Bilanthri

So you're suggesting that accelerating into the point of impact would not have a noticeable effect on measured force of impact, relative to a strike with no delta-v? I find that hard to believe, considering the math.

Accelerating up until you hit something is going to boost your velocity, no question about that. Once you've actually hit, however, continued force is typically just going to be pushing the target. There's a bit of an exception if your strike went into the target (like with a sword blade), as continued force helps you maintain the pressure to keep going in, but most of the time if you're strong enough to keep it going like that, you're probably strong enough to have built up enough speed in the first place that it doesn't make much of a difference.

Regardless, you still want to keep accelerating, because that's a lot easier to do than it is to stop accelerating with a strike and let it continue forward without accidentally decelerating it, and even if you can do that easily, a strike that you aren't accelerating or decelerating is a strike that you aren't controlling for part of its travel, which isn't a great idea. Plus, extra knockback is typically a good idea.