Dual Sword Information and Photos

Here's all of the immediate information for DW. Enjoy!

Spoiler: Dual Wield Stats and Skills

Last skill in the next post! ^^

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FULL DEX IS NOT RECOMMENDED, it just happens to be my stats at the moment. Please, please, PLEASE do not go full DEX because you happened to see it in a picture! lol

It may work out in the future, but for now, we don't know.
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Also, all of the descriptions of Blade Skills now accomodate Dual Wielding! Also, crystas in the sub-weapon slot do not work, including 1h swords.

Next, the stats of the off-hand sword does not affect your (character) stats. However, it does affect your damage when using DW skills.

The maximum ASPD has been increased from 1300 to 3000+.

+1 STR =
• +1 ATK
• Increases base Critical damage.
• Increases Main Weapon damage slightly.
• Increases Sub-Weapon damage slightly.

+1 AGI =
• +1 ATK
• +2 FLEE (with Light remodeled armor)
• +6 ASPD
• +1 CSPD
• Increases Sub-Weapon damage.
• Increases Main Weapon damage slightly.

+1 DEX =
• +2 ATK
• +1 MATK
• +2 ACC
• +3 CSPD
• Increases Main Weapon damage.

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Please read the entire thread if you want more info! Not all information is in this post, thanks.
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Spoiler: Last DW skill

Have fun!

 

could you tell what weapons are use to ?

 

Goodbye my sweet archer :"(

Welcome dualsword

 

Dual Sword Control Passive gives 50aspd per level. @lvl 10 you get +500aspd.

 

Thanks!

 

That's insane! Stacking that with equips BD Sword (+500) or Feather Cape (+500) gives 1k aspd!

 

I constantly kept mentioning that off hand stats don't work but no one wanted to listen...
BTW, u can still use sword skill, sonic blade sucks but astute is worth getting, only costs 1 mp...oh and the aoe skill sucks.

 

Don't need a f cape to max speed, I only used bd sword and a heavy garb and my speed was maxed, better use a more useful add gear.

 

How about the skill Cross Parry? This skill can tumble mobs.

 

I think that means the penalty is reduced by +50 aspd each level.

 

Anyone has any idea whether to max Dual Sword Mastery?

 

Given how it is. i'd say dual wield is a skill spamming class with its high mana regen rate per attack sequence.

And its not meant to be a normal melee class as its normal attack is fast but weak overall (meant mainly as a sort of mana regen rather than DPS)

i would say there might be a few builds

dex/crit +(optional str/agi)
Pros
higher white damage
higher accuracy for mana regen
higher stability damage rate
higher critical rate

Cons
lower offhand damage
low flee
low burst damage


agi/crit +(optional dex)
Pros
higher flee
high aspd(but since aspd is not needed as there are tons of aspd skills for DW)
increases offhand damage

Cons
lower main damage
low accuracy rate
low stability rate
low burst damage


str/crit +(optional dex)
Pros
increases a little aspd
increases offhand damage
very high burst damage

Cons
lower main damage
low stability rate
low accuracy rate


IMO, i think dex, str, crit is the way to go. unless the cap of the ASPD is increased by alot, else having agi as the main stat just might not work out as the ASPD is more than sufficient for any DW.

 

it is a MUST.

reason being, accuracy is important for mana regen if critical did not land. and also, critical rate is really important for DW for its DPS skill output and mana regen rate.

And since when doing melee sequence attacks, DW cannot move during that period, which gives the monster a small window to hit the player, therefore, a DW mana regen is pretty important for its continuous and consistence DPS output. If a player keep missing hits and also not regenerating mana, thus unable to spam skills, then it is pretty much worse than a 1-hand.

 

Full dex isnt reccomended coz your damage will be off balance.

My first cha i make it full dex... and my damage is like 100-20-80-10-100-25. The damage of the sub weapon is so low.

My friend said that she tried dex60% agi 40% and the damage is quite well balance for her...

For now... duel sword is not my main interest. It was quite annoying coz the damage is quite low and unstable. I would stick with my archer for now.

But i love the new hair they added in. Damn i love the dragonball hair!!!

 

yap i would suggest, str dex.

and also DW is not meant for melee, if u keep doing melee u wont do much DPS at all and will keep getting hit cos you cannot move during your attack sequence. It is meant as a form of mana regen for HIGH BURST DPS skill since offhand dps is added towards the total BURST SKILL DAMAGE.

 

The skills are interesting...the twin slash or whatever it's called, does descent dmg (2k+ at lvl 15), the aoe skill is descent on first tick but onwards the dmg sucks (maybe the second dmg us off hand?),the cross parry is worth getting but only for the tumble effect, and the dash skill sucks, u go up close to ur target and dash pass his hitting everyone behind him, kinda sucks for a 3 mp bar skill...
Haven't really tried the evasion skill yet.

 

sub-weapon stat useless??

 

seems to me that full evasion with reflex is the way to go. top that off with godspeed bonus damage and spinning slash blind should make this class hard to hit... kind of like becoming forestia??

 

yes