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Idk it makes economic sense to me too.
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Meanwhile, artied S&B and 2H knights are pretty much dime-a-dozen.
SNB/2h are just made better by Artie weapons. I also never had an issue with these specs sans Arties. DWC is my main spec, but my insignia is frequently used and the disparities are pretty apparent after a bit of play on all of the specs.
Definitely won't be paying for level 3's though. Not a chance.
I actually see a higher percentage of artied dual cutting and dual blunt Knights than I do two-handed or sword and shield ones, but I suspect that's either because people generally avoid playing those specs if they don't have the ability to buy artefact weapons or because two-handed and sword and shield are viewed as the superior options (even though a lot of the time they're not) with or without artefacts.
The mechanical issues with DWC and disembowel should have been resolved, but I can't speak on whether they actually have. There's a grace period between a restoration application curing a damaged leg and a subsequent impale where you'll still get the bonus to writhe time if the other leg is damaged, to account for the situations where balance time is calculated as a bit longer than it should generally be.
For what it's worth, I'm artied as every spec, though I tend to prefer dual blunt as Paladin and dual cutting as Runewarden right now (even if they made my level three battleaxe useless). If the level two insignia wasn't absolute garbage I'd be more inclined to switch around more often, but it's not worth buying and the 24 hour cooldown option doesn't work that well with my play times and having two Knight classes.
Results of disembowel testing | Knight limb counter | GMCP AB files
I enjoy the hell out of it, but the pay gate kind of pushed me away from a DWC consideration. I don't understand why they aren't either half cost, or why the artefact rapier/scim/whatever it is in your hand doesn't just lend its stats to the non artefact thing in your other hand.
Either way, was too expensive for me
It just seems strange that there's such an artificially large price gap between the specs - I know it goes back to pre-Weaponmastery, but it's a little ridiculous to have two specs cost up to twice as much as the others. I like 2H just fine so far, but I would have been much more tempted to try DWC/DWB if there were similar investments I could plan out.
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Dual blunt is still insane, though, since morningstars and flails do both actually have a use. It's definitely the spec that's done the best job of making both weapon types relevant, I think, which is unfortunate since it's the most expensive by a large margin.
Results of disembowel testing | Knight limb counter | GMCP AB files
I have L3's right now, and it's mostly because I wanted to be a bit over-the-top (and boy, is DWC with level 3's nuts).
From anecdotal experience, I can say that it's basically split down the middle, the knights I've seen -fighting-, in terms of spec. I haven't fought a 2her in a very long time (last one I seriously dueled was Jarrel, I think, and that was like four RL months ago).
Tbh, I think there just aren't as many knights who pvp as we seem to think there are
I know I'm always surprised by how few I can remember fighting recently.
Oddly all of Hashan's Knights seem to be two-handed - maybe that's just due to having the resources available for learning the spec. I can't recall seeing any of them using any of the other three specs.
Mhaldor has a varied mix of two-handed, dual blunt and dual cutting, but there's also what appears to be a split along class lines: Runewardens tend to be two-handed, Infernals are dual blunt or dual cutting. I'm not sure I can think of a single sword and shield Knight in Mhaldor right now.
Targossas has very few two-handed Knights from what I've seen (Daeir might be the only one). Most of the newer ones are sword and shield or dual cutting. I'm the only active (in my timezone) Knight in Targossas who uses dual blunt even some of the time, as far as I know.
Eleusis has either two-handed or sword and shield. I've not personally seen any dual blunt or dual cutting.
Results of disembowel testing | Knight limb counter | GMCP AB files
Exelethril, me, Atalkez, Proficy, Dunn, Jhui (usually monk but sometimes runie), Antonius, Naliah, Exxia... I can't even list all the PvP knights I'm regularly in combat with, and that's pretty much entirely excluding Cyrene too.
Algiz, scales, or favourshield on the person you tested on, by any chance?
Who were you testing on and what class are they? What class are you? There are quite a lot of purely percentage-based resistances that will drop the damage of disembowel, though if you're Runewarden you'll also have that increase making up some of the difference.
Results of disembowel testing | Knight limb counter | GMCP AB files
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@Cooper Since you are the only one I know with a morphing weapon, how much did that cost you? Do you think it was a good investment?
Hands down the worst, awesome purchase ever.
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