Huge Missrates!
Huge Missrates!
I am on Telos right now fighting mercenaries. I have master flurry and am dual wielding vibroblades. I cannot hit the mercenaires. After about spamming 5 flurries i finally get a hit. What am i doing wrong? I am a Jedi Sentinel btw, level 9. Thanks
Do you have master two-handed fighting? If not, try unequipping one vibroblade. Without at least two two-handed fighting feats, dual wielding is probably a bad idea. With two vibroblades, which are at least balanced, you're -6/-8 with no two-handed fighting feats, -4/-6 with one, -2/-4 with two (which is not too bad) and +0/-2 with all three. If you have none of the feats, your chance to hit with the main hand is down 30% and down 40% with the off-hand.
That's really odd. Are you on difficult mode? I went through there with a 14 DEX and weapon finesse, and didn't miss too much (and I was using power attack, which gives a 3 point penalty to attack). Atton (dual wielding blasters) was also tearing through people. If you switch to the quests tab of the interface and hit X, there will be an option (hitting Y to cycle through them) to see the feedback on the details of the attacks/damage/etc. Looking at those details might help you get a handle on what's going on.
You could also just deal with a single blade for awhile. I switched over to almost exclusively using a single weapon a while ago, back in KotOR I. I just like it better. You almost never get hit, even against some of the more powerful opponents, and with Master Speed, you get 2 extra attacks. With the increased hitrate do to dueling bonuses and no penalties, you hit, on average, much more often than when dual-wielding or using a double-bladed weapon. I like double-bladed sabers quite a bit, but when it comes down to it, using a single saber is just cool. Especially when the animations change, and you get a really cool-looking power attack, despite the fact it's only level 1. 
"An eye for an eye...
The world is blind."
The world is blind."
i had the same problem my first time going through the game, and am having the same problem now. you just have to be patient. dont use flurry right now
use critical strike or no bonus feat attack at all. sometimes in all the desire to kill and slaughter fast, you fail to realize that the best attack feat is just the normal attack sometimes. dexterity only boosts defense and ranged wepon accuracy. strength boosts attack and melee accuracy. try adding more modifiers to your strength attributes. also, add modifiers to your reflex and constitution. many early visors and headbands that add reflex and will save modifiers help with melee accuracy.
use critical strike or no bonus feat attack at all. sometimes in all the desire to kill and slaughter fast, you fail to realize that the best attack feat is just the normal attack sometimes. dexterity only boosts defense and ranged wepon accuracy. strength boosts attack and melee accuracy. try adding more modifiers to your strength attributes. also, add modifiers to your reflex and constitution. many early visors and headbands that add reflex and will save modifiers help with melee accuracy.
Two words: Weapon Finesse. It makes strength almost insignificant. I normally just keep strength at 10, and deal with it until I get my lightsaber. If you single-wield, it really doesn't affect you. Dual wielders need strength though, since they get fewer hits, meaning you need to do more damage with each strike. <(Even with the Weapon Master/Marauder's Superior Two-Weapon Fighting feat)>
"An eye for an eye...
The world is blind."
The world is blind."
[QUOTE=Koreforce]Two words: Weapon Finesse. It makes strength almost insignificant. I normally just keep strength at 10, and deal with it until I get my lightsaber. If you single-wield, it really doesn't affect you. Dual wielders need strength though, since they get fewer hits, meaning you need to do more damage with each strike. <(Even with the Weapon Master/Marauder's Superior Two-Weapon Fighting feat)>[/QUOTE]
I still think Weapon Finesse is better. I had my sentinel wielding a saber staff the entire time (once I made it) and prior to that dual wielding swords (one of which gave me weapon finesse: melee weapons as a bonus feat) and ripped through things like a hot knife through butter. For the last half of the game, my miss rate was equivalent to only missing on critical misses (i.e. 1 on a d20). Of course, my adjusted 28 DEX might have helped with that....
Main reason I like weapon finesse is I'd rather do X less points of damage and get hit 5X% less often. If you've got an 18 STR and a 10 DEX, you do 4 more points of damage per attack (which is not that big a deal when the lightsaber does 20ish-50ish base like mine did), but with my 10 STR and 18 DEX, I get hit 20% less often. Note this is subtraction reduction, not percent reduction, i.e. instead of getting hit 60% of the time it's 40% (not 48%). I do have the drawback of not being able to wear heavy armor, but I'd rather have the force powers anyway. At any rate, my 40 defense was enought to rarely get hit towards the end of the game anyway.
I still think Weapon Finesse is better. I had my sentinel wielding a saber staff the entire time (once I made it) and prior to that dual wielding swords (one of which gave me weapon finesse: melee weapons as a bonus feat) and ripped through things like a hot knife through butter. For the last half of the game, my miss rate was equivalent to only missing on critical misses (i.e. 1 on a d20). Of course, my adjusted 28 DEX might have helped with that....
Main reason I like weapon finesse is I'd rather do X less points of damage and get hit 5X% less often. If you've got an 18 STR and a 10 DEX, you do 4 more points of damage per attack (which is not that big a deal when the lightsaber does 20ish-50ish base like mine did), but with my 10 STR and 18 DEX, I get hit 20% less often. Note this is subtraction reduction, not percent reduction, i.e. instead of getting hit 60% of the time it's 40% (not 48%). I do have the drawback of not being able to wear heavy armor, but I'd rather have the force powers anyway. At any rate, my 40 defense was enought to rarely get hit towards the end of the game anyway.