which weapon should i use

[felolk]

im building a samurai armor set, but i have a guardless katana for now until i can buy another one. i dont do much damage with that, so i was thinking if maybe there is a better weapon to use when i wear a samurai armor set

[Derek Withers]

I tend to carry a mixture of different weapons on each character depending on what they will be fighting. I will have something like a naginata to fight animals. I will have a hacker/anti robot/anti armour weapon like a paladins cross or combat cleaver. I will have a katana as a sidearm. Plus whatever fun weapons I have around.

The guardless katana does fine early on when your enemies dont have good armour. It does tend to raise your melee defence score much higher than melee attack so I might consider switching to a sabre next to bump up my attack stats.

[felolk]

thanks! I will surely try out a sabre

[Godwings101]

Originally posted by felolkx:

thanks! I will surely try out a sabre

My group of like 10 people mostly use sabers, although I have the mod for realistic weapons that takes away the majority of all weapons negatives so most of them are +4-6 defense and +0-2 attack depending the type. Some heavy weapons, a couple of crossbows with mixed sidearms. For the most part weapon type is irrelevant and more down to the quality of it.

[Kain Phalanx]

The samurai set should almost exclusively be used with katanas and naginatas. Guardless katana is a sidearm, and so does sidearm damage. Use a nodachi instead, with a wakizashi for fighting indoors. It will under perform without a lot of dex, so don't bother on low level characters. The only sabre I'd use with the samurai set is desert sabre.

[bunny de fluff]

I like pole weapon class. They are long, sharp, and lightweight. You can put two nagitana katana in the main weapon slots and your character will look very cool.

[felolk]

Originally posted by Kain Phalanx:

The samurai set should almost exclusively be used with katanas and naginatas. Guardless katana is a sidearm, and so does sidearm damage. Use a nodachi instead, with a wakizashi for fighting indoors. It will under perform without a lot of dex, so don't bother on low level characters. The only sabre I'd use with the samurai set is desert sabre.

I'm doing a lonely run for now and my character doesn't seem to be very good with katanas and has problems fighting even against dogs, but I was also thinking of buying a nodachi

[Hatsune Neko Gaming]

personally I use a multiweapon setup in conjunction with a backpack to hold the longer weapons.

Weapon 1 slot
Roukanken
Naginata or Heavy Pole Arm
and a
Old World Bow MkII to swap out.

Weapon Slot 2
Hakurouken

don't mind the clutter, I'm out looting
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[Derek Withers]

It wont be the weapon thats the problem, you just need to build your stats a little more.

Personally I don't use Samurai armour until I am well into the 50s stat wise. I will use the legplates before that but the actual armour has a lot of penalties.

[Khan Boyzitbig of Mercia]

Originally posted by felolkx:

Originally posted by Kain Phalanx:

The samurai set should almost exclusively be used with katanas and naginatas. Guardless katana is a sidearm, and so does sidearm damage. Use a nodachi instead, with a wakizashi for fighting indoors. It will under perform without a lot of dex, so don't bother on low level characters. The only sabre I'd use with the samurai set is desert sabre.

I'm doing a lonely run for now and my character doesn't seem to be very good with katanas and has problems fighting even against dogs, but I was also thinking of buying a nodachi

Bonedogs are quite tough, expect a much harder fight than against a humanoid opponent with the same stats.

Nodachi hits harder than a Katana but will still have damage and potentially animation issues, better quality blades will help more overall than just going for Nodachi over Katana. An Edge 3 Naginata on a 30 stat character will perform much better than a Catun no.3 and can even oneshot weaker foes for instance.

[Oubley]

Personally like the toppers

Then I have two guys run the Spider Sabre... well I guess it might actually be named the desert sabre but I call it the Spider Sabre

And then 1 guy runs the Naginata

[Rock]

All the weapon classes are fine to ''main''. It's always important to get your strength and dexterity stats high enough to be able to perform well. 40-50 range you start to have better time regardless of weapon (except if you go for a really heavy weapon).

I've done full ''samurai'' runs with just Katana and I've deleted all opponents. I was thinking that the massive armor damage penalty would make it useless but it doesn't. Once your stats are 60-70 range it just doesn't matter what you are using. Sure using a meta Falling Sun will be hella more impressive but regardless the outcome is the same.

Remember you always need twice the amount of Strength to wield weapon properly regarding it's weight. So if a weapon weighs 5kg it means you need 10 Strength to wield it without any kind of penalties (speed). This is very important especially for the heavy weapons because they are very slow weapons to begin with and it just get's worse if you do not have proper amount of strength. Dexterity is also very important because it impacts the most of your block and attack speed.

Heavy armor is nice to level up your toughness and combat related stats because it's less likely that you receive fatal wounds. But heavy armor also however gives massive penalties aswell. Heavy armor shines the most on a character that is already a ''veteran'' fighter because they already have very high stats to begin with, so few debuff points here and there won't slow them down or make them miss their attacks etc.

[muffins]

Originally posted by felolkx:

Originally posted by Kain Phalanx:

The samurai set should almost exclusively be used with katanas and naginatas. Guardless katana is a sidearm, and so does sidearm damage. Use a nodachi instead, with a wakizashi for fighting indoors. It will under perform without a lot of dex, so don't bother on low level characters. The only sabre I'd use with the samurai set is desert sabre.

I'm doing a lonely run for now and my character doesn't seem to be very good with katanas and has problems fighting even against dogs, but I was also thinking of buying a nodachi

You just have to get your skills up. Strength governs blunt damage output. Dex governs cutting damage output. Weapons have damage multipliers so a weapon that does 0.60 cutting will do 60% of your maximum potential cutting damage potential. Weapon skills affect the speed and quality of your attacks with those weapons. You can train Dex by using light weapons like a ninja blade to get your Dex and Katana skills up.

[Just about elbow deep]

I use the weapons god gave me.