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Old 10-03-2020, 04:01 PM   #2
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Default Re: Nerfing Dual-Weapon Attack and maybe Rapid Strike.

If a person can put all of his body into a two-handed weapon strike, why can't the same person achieve the same effect by just striking with two weapons instead of holding onto one?

Don't think of DWA as some 'additional attack', think of it as what it says on the tin, making an attack with TWO weapons. You position your body and give momentum to both strikes.

For Rapid Strike, note the word rapid, the user is simply that fast to execute proper strike twice within a second.

On topic of nerf, the main question is, why? Both DWA and Rapid Strike are heavily penalized for untrained use and take a lot of points to remove the penalty from them, as well as possibly getting expensive advantages like Trained By A Master.

Kromm said that a person with DWA is usually simply the more point-expensive character, and thus he paid for the advantage he gained with points. He didn't just randomly one day decide to DWA because he felt like it, the advantage it gave him was purchased as fairly as one buys Combat Reflexes or extra HP. Nerfing DWA/Rapid Strike is just making that the character doesn't get what he paid for, and that's a huge no no no.

To repeat the question, why? What're you trying to achieve by imposing such nerf upon DWA/Rapid Strike? And no, just because people talk about it, it doesn't mean it's broken.
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