Polearms.... Worth the points?

Kinslayer · Post by **Kinslayer** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:24 pm

I'm a big fan of dual weilding, like 99.9% of eveyone else. I'd like to play around with polearms.

Are there decent polearm weapons down the road or is everything mainly a sword?

appreciate the input..

Kinslayer · Post by **Kinslayer** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 6:31 pm

Well....

I did a little research. which I should have done to begin with and saw that your limited to 3 classes if you want to use heavy pole weaponry. Thats a bit dissapointing.

I still would like to hear your input on pole weapons. If you used them and enjoyed it or have seen some cool pole weapon drops.

thanks

Bunker · Post by **Bunker** » Sat Jan 14, 2006 11:06 pm

http://www.gamebanshee.com/dungeonlords ... learms.php

Judging from that, I'd say that there are definitely some pretty sick polearms. As to their obtainability, not sure on that. Pick and choose, my man. That range and damage could be used wisely, but you might have to give a few things up to get it unless you figure out your perfect character.

Kinslayer · Post by **Kinslayer** » Sun Jan 15, 2006 8:07 am

Thanks Bunk.

much appreciated

Frodo1 · Post by **Frodo1** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 11:49 pm

I've tried to use heavy polearms with my valkyrie's. My suggestion is...forget it! They are way cumbersome and you can get better damage out of decent medium weapons. The big problem is that there is this big flourish that occurs when your character goes for big damage. It usually misses and it always takes forever for your character to finish the motion of the flourish and return to attack mode. In the meanwhile, your enemies can hack away while you're defenseless. So, in comparison. Heavy weapons of equal damage do much more actual damage and some smaller weapons of lesser stated damage do as much damage in the long run, and in both cases cause you to take less damage yourself.