Fencing sword is kinda meh.

[Hykal]

I have a level 11 swordmaster (now old, but I knew what I was paying for) and I wanted at first to use him with the fencing sword. I had fast adaptation, nimble, all the things you'd put into a brother that's supposed to be a 'skirmisher' of sorts.

I've used lunge about say ... a dozen times? In my current 300 day campaign (all major crisis finished). Yes it's useful to use lunge as an extra step but I use slash normally a lot more. The noble sword to me just does a lot better damage and sometimes I just hand him a longsword for big swarms of weak enemies.

It does skill up with Initiative but the damage doesn't see much. A noble sword with riposte on can deal much more damage then lunge does, especially if the swordmaster is surrounded with unarmored enemies (wolves, orc young, zombies, etc)

Overall, 3/5. Not terrible but not great either. Am I doing something wrong? Have you found it useful?

[Whatever100500]

Quickhand fencing sword (lunge only) + noble sword?

[Typhon95]

Originally posted by Hykal94:

I have a level 11 swordmaster (now old, but I knew what I was paying for) and I wanted at first to use him with the fencing sword. I had fast adaptation, nimble, all the things you'd put into a brother that's supposed to be a 'skirmisher' of sorts.

I've used lunge about say ... a dozen times? In my current 300 day campaign (all major crisis finished). Yes it's useful to use lunge as an extra step but I use slash normally a lot more. The noble sword to me just does a lot better damage and sometimes I just hand him a longsword for big swarms of weak enemies.

It does skill up with Initiative but the damage doesn't see much. A noble sword with riposte on can deal much more damage then lunge does, especially if the swordmaster is surrounded with unarmored enemies (wolves, orc young, zombies, etc)

Overall, 3/5. Not terrible but not great either. Am I doing something wrong? Have you found it useful?

There's an item in the game that can help with the "Old" trait, I'm not sure if it's considered spoiler or not :/

[turtle225]

Fencing was better with the Naked Nimble monsters for having a bit more initiative. With 150 initiative it does really good damage with duelist. The problem is that you leveled initiative instead of better stats and that spamming it will wreck your fatigue.. and initiative.

I gave my sword duelist a Noble Sword too. Fencing is neat but just a bit too weak normally and lunge can't be spammed effectively. It's better off used as a positioning tool.

Maybe if you found a unique one with more armor damage it would be good.

[Dom]

Originally posted by Typhon95:

There's an item in the game that can help with the "Old" trait, I'm not sure if it's considered spoiler or not :/

I used that item but he got old again around 50 days later so feels kind of meh

[Hykal]

The lunge itself doesn't even hit all that hard. One would think that putting all your momentum into one forward motion would do more damage than slashing but nope.

Even used tactically, one you're in range you really have no reason to ever use it again. It's not the mace's stun, the axe's shieldbreak, the 1H swords' riposte, the flail's head attack, the dagger's poke, nothing.

If if the fencing sword ALSO had riposte then it just eliminate's normal sword usefulness. In the weapon tree, the fencing sword sticks out.

[LDiCesare]

Indeed, I find the fencing sword useless as it is. Low damage unless you have ridiculously high initiative. The lunge movement effect is probably useful once in a while, but it doesn't justify the fatigue cost, the low damage improvement and loss of to-hit-chance.

[Typhon95]

Originally posted by Domiel:

Originally posted by Typhon95:

There's an item in the game that can help with the "Old" trait, I'm not sure if it's considered spoiler or not :/

I used that item but he got old again around 50 days later so feels kind of meh

BOLLOCKS! They can get old again? That's hogwash, come on

[daniel.123]

Originally posted by Domiel:

Originally posted by Typhon95:

There's an item in the game that can help with the "Old" trait, I'm not sure if it's considered spoiler or not :/

I used that item but he got old again around 50 days later so feels kind of meh

Wow really? He can get it twice? that's reeeeaaaallyyy ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dumb