Any plans for melees wielding 2 weapons ?

[Auron IX]

Was wondering if you guys had any plans on letting us wield 2 weapons ?

[Virindi Clown]

As much sense as that would make with the current level of usage a shield has, that would be nuts to have guys with two weeping swords lol. That would be the only simple way to go about it and it would be far too powerful, so other than that, it probably couldn't be done. The new animation and mechanics that would have to be made for it would be trouble enough, much less an insane amount of balance issues that could probably never be solved (the ones that are already there are bad enough hehe).

[Evil_Magi]

I had that idea...that would be awesome...

[Auron IX]

Think about it how unfair would it really be. It would take a longer time to swing both, and the chances of getting hit with a war would be more greater. I also thing elemental spells and weapons should have a longer effect. Like if you get hit with fire you should be on fire and lose xp for a while kinda like in ac2, but this would look and be way more cooler in this game.

[Lavigne]

why not make it D&D style where you have to wield one weapon lighter than the other. eg: a sword in the main hand and adagger or a ua or some such in the other.
ooooor make it dagger only, then dagger would actually have a use. mmm

[TracerBullet]

AC 2 lets you weild two daggers. I think its a good idea, but as for balance, they could add specific weapons that could be double weilded, say, if they had a "Special Property" that was "Dual Weild" or something. But whatever they do with the game, i'm happy.

[Whisp'r]

Nice Idea Auron. I have no idea about the tangled mess of programming this would involve but it would be fun.

Would you be in sheilded position with another weapon in sheild hand? then youd be slower like w a sheild out now?

I just hope with the changes that will be made since the sale back to Turbuine we get to see some REAL changes in game. Liek attack animation etc.

I never have to worry about the players offering WAAAAAY OUT ideas like this. hehe.

[Auron IX]

Didnt really think about the position the character would have to be in to make a move like this work, that could be a whole other topic (hehe). I guess the shield postion would look best, but when swinging 2 weapons it would have to lunge twice forward towards the guy making it a longer move taking more time. When i fight one on one now I only take full swings. I barely have enough time to complete my strike before the war is coming at me now. But with turbine having this game now i to would love to see more attack animation, but ive played alot of games and ac is far better at this then most games so it can only get better with the great movement this game has.

[wa zu]

how about allowing melees the ability to KICK.
like on another game i played you learned the skill and every other combat round or so you could kick . just my little opinion thanks.

[Lavigne]

i'm against kicking. this is AC not shadowbane or everquest. part of what makes me like AC is its originality. dual wielding, though, is something all games, imo, should have.

[TracerBullet]

If they were to add kicking, that should be under something like UA. Which it already is. How about we all agree, that AC is good as is. And atleast we get monthly content updates. If they change something, lets just hope its something new, exciting, and origonal. I love the game as is. Its something different, and thats what makes it better than most other MMORPG's

[Virindi Clown]

A much easier idea is having two handed weapons. Either you could use both hands just to do swing attacks for more damage (obviously that wouldn't work for speed), or there could be large weapons equippable with only one hand.

[Krazed]

Wielding 2 daggers would defiantly help the dagger class out...

[Virindi Clown]

Two unarmed weapons and daggers for speed attacks make sense, but other than that, I think it would only work to be full power swinging two of any other weapon, and really, it would look kind of awkward.