Weapon Skill Tab?

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Wednesday, November 7th 2012, 8:09pm

What exactly does leveling a particular weapon skill from normal attacks do? I am talking about the Weapon Skill tab when you hit "C". Just curious.

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Wednesday, November 7th 2012, 8:45pm

you will miss less often the higher the weapon skill level is

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Wednesday, November 7th 2012, 9:58pm

Just like in RL... more skillz - more 'hits'.

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Hungerfield

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Thursday, November 8th 2012, 8:07pm

Thank you both very much for replies. I feel a wee bit smarter today, but only a wee

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Thursday, November 8th 2012, 8:13pm

This is another reason casters are behind other classes, as we don't get any skill upon good casting, where mele classes do get skill level rise upon good hits.

I did once get even encilopedia from cash shop, and that was worst thing I ever purchased - you have to let your character in game - reading book, but problem is that it might be good idea when level cap was 50 - at the moment is waste of time. At the moment on main I have 125 out of 195 for staff. It get to the point that it takes me 3-4 days to gain 1 level and is actually slowing down even more.

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Thursday, November 8th 2012, 8:31pm

does it actually affect you if you're not a warmage? imho its literally for HITS ?

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Thursday, November 8th 2012, 8:47pm

Probably not as long as you don't shadowstab with staff your enemy... (now rustyx is going to laugh again

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Some lame mage has done that...

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Thursday, November 8th 2012, 8:48pm

Quoted from "Hungerfield;576513"

What exactly does leveling a particular weapon skill from normal attacks do? I am talking about the Weapon Skill tab when you hit "C". Just curious.

For the most part, it increases your weapon accuracy and, therefore, reduces the number of times that your attacks miss the target. But...

It's useful mainly for melee or ranged *physical* DPS damage dealers and not for spellcasters. If you happen to note the skill listings for Wand and 2H Staff, those will display the skill level for *physically* hitting an opponent with the weapon and not the accuracy skill for hitting an opponent with a spell.

Quoted from "RoMage;576677"

This is another reason casters are behind other classes, as we don't get any skill upon good casting, where mele classes do get skill level rise upon good hits.

I'm not sure if adding Wand or 2H Staff *spell* accuracy to the weapon accuracy list would unbalance what we already have. I'd tend to be against it since *adding* that accuracy might tend to cause physical damage dealers to scream for nerfs.

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Thursday, November 8th 2012, 10:16pm

What about parry. would lvl'ing up a weapon skill allow us to parry more? (talking from the prospective of a knight or /knight)

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Friday, November 9th 2012, 5:33pm

I'm wondering, with a Warlock/rogue, and shadowstab, which is now magic based and ranged, yet the animation shows me swinging a staff when cast, I miss a lot. Should I be working on my dagger skill, my staff skill, or my magical accuracy (more wisdom)?

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Friday, November 9th 2012, 7:34pm

Quoted from "Auros;576774"

I'm wondering, with a Warlock/rogue, and shadowstab, which is now magic based and ranged, yet the animation shows me swinging a staff when cast, I miss a lot. Should I be working on my dagger skill, my staff skill, or my magical accuracy (more wisdom)?

I have an alt R/Wl/M. Wl doesn't use mana, but stacking some Wis should improve your MAcc. You wouldn't want to overdo it since you'll want more Int/Mattk and some Dex/x on your "regular" cloth gear. Also depends on your third class. Perhaps a Wl-specific cape or set of wings loaded with a fair amount of Wis/X stats would fill the bill.

And after getting smacked around by an R/M in siege last night, I'm beginning to look at playing that alt as R/M more often.

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Friday, November 9th 2012, 7:41pm

How will you state your R/M?

I am mainly M/R and if soloing some instances, then I switch to M/P. My R is at 72, but mostly leveled trough dailies, not trough play. Haven't actively played it since L50 on main, but I do have 2 alts that are R/S.

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bilalab

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Saturday, November 10th 2012, 5:25am

Quoted from "Auros;576774"

I'm wondering, with a Warlock/rogue, and shadowstab, which is now magic based and ranged, yet the animation shows me swinging a staff when cast, I miss a lot. Should I be working on my dagger skill, my staff skill, or my magical accuracy (more wisdom)?

I would go with accuracy or wis runes in gear instead of simply stating wis in the gear

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Saturday, November 10th 2012, 7:18pm

Quoted from "bilalab;576846"

I would go with accuracy or wis runes in gear instead of simply stating wis in the gear

An excellent point, especially since the Accuracy VII runes weren't available when I posted regarding adding Wis stats to gear pieces. They were available later in the day, and I intend to pick up a number of them, specifically for improving my short-round's PAcc and MAcc.

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