Dual melee + Spell ?

[Kai]

Can I use dual swords with fire based spells? or do need to have a catalyst in one hand?

[Qelris]

You need a staff or a catalyst to use spells. I believe there was a 2h Sword or something that lets you use Lightning type spells, so maybe there is more uniques around that lets you use specitic type of spells?

[Kai]

ahh, I wanted to go for a fire melee hybrid

[Brakiros]

Originally posted by Kai:

ahh, I wanted to go for a fire melee hybrid

You can do that but you need to be like a spellsword a sword and a focus.

[Aeekto]

Some uniques let you use magic spells.
But warrior skills change can do maigcal damage too at higher levels... Bladestorm for example can get converted into ice damage or Warriorpath into firedamage or Murderers Haste into shadowdamage, etc pp....

[Shaun Gilmore]

Originally posted by Qelris:

You need a staff or a catalyst to use spells. I believe there was a 2h Sword or something that lets you use Lightning type spells, so maybe there is more uniques around that lets you use specitic type of spells?

Which, to be fair, is a joke in and of itself because the only skill that adds to your arsenal is Lightning Strike

[Medicles]

I dont think he wants the elementar damage, but just using spells. This was initially one of my dissapointments when i relaized, that the advertised variety in character builds is actually heavily limited. You will never be able to build something like a Berserker with two axes shooting fireballs.

[Kai]

Originally posted by Medicles:

You will never be able to build something like a Berserker with two axes shooting fireballs.

Yeah that , i wanted to build a melee and fire spells hybrid, i guess i have to do with elemental damages.

[Brakiros]

Originally posted by Kai:

Originally posted by Medicles:

You will never be able to build something like a Berserker with two axes shooting fireballs.

Yeah that , i wanted to build a melee and fire spells hybrid, i guess i have to do with elemental damages.

Yeah Child of Fury is good for that fire damage

[Aeekto]

Originally posted by Kai:

Originally posted by Medicles:

You will never be able to build something like a Berserker with two axes shooting fireballs.

Yeah that , i wanted to build a melee and fire spells hybrid, i guess i have to do with elemental damages.

you can be a melee with spells, just not dualwield, but doesn´t matter since some spells act and look like dualwield.
I´m playing a dagger+catalyst combo and only fighting melee with melee spells
(shadow+bleed+poison damage)... the speed of this combo is insane and a lot faster than every dualwield standard attack.

[Kai]

Originally posted by Aeekto:

Originally posted by Kai:

Yeah that , i wanted to build a melee and fire spells hybrid, i guess i have to do with elemental damages.

you can be a melee with spells, just not dualwield, but doesn´t matter since some spells act and look like dualwield.
I´m playing a dagger+catalyst combo and only fighting melee with melee spells
(shadow+bleed+poison damage)... the speed of this combo is insane and a lot faster than every dualwield standard attack.

Yeah i changed to sword and catalyst for melee and elemental skills.

My only problem is the catalyst, i dont like my character holding it in one hand, looks weird, they shouldve simply disabled off hand. Who holds a hanging lantern thing and fights?

[Aeekto]

Originally posted by Kai:

Originally posted by Aeekto:

you can be a melee with spells, just not dualwield, but doesn´t matter since some spells act and look like dualwield.
I´m playing a dagger+catalyst combo and only fighting melee with melee spells
(shadow+bleed+poison damage)... the speed of this combo is insane and a lot faster than every dualwield standard attack.

Yeah i changed to sword and catalyst for melee and elemental skills.

My only problem is the catalyst, i dont like my character holding it in one hand, looks weird, they shouldve simply disabled off hand. Who holds a hanging lantern thing and fights?

There are other not so obvious items too, like books or things that look somehow like a dagger ;)

[Fusei]

Yeah the closed thing you'll get from a battlemage is melee skill with elemental modifier. I played a one handed weap + catalyst but ended up using ranged skills only.
Know I said it before, but really this equipment restriction thingy just break the class free notion.

[Aeekto]

Originally posted by Fusei:

Yeah the closed thing you'll get from a battlemage is melee skill with elemental modifier. I played a one handed weap + catalyst but ended up using ranged skills only.
Know I said it before, but really this equipment restriction thingy just break the class free notion.

Well, here is just an example of me playing with dagger+catalyst only in melee range (3 catalyst spells and 2 melee weapon spells)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdM_VX-KgZE&feature=youtu.be

[AuraForLaura]

Originally posted by Shaun Gilmore:

Originally posted by Qelris:

You need a staff or a catalyst to use spells. I believe there was a 2h Sword or something that lets you use Lightning type spells, so maybe there is more uniques around that lets you use specitic type of spells?

Which, to be fair, is a joke in and of itself because the only skill that adds to your arsenal is Lightning Strike

The joke is the fact, that all the ""attack skills"" are spells themselves... There is notinth melee or attacky about anything. They summon a huge magic hammer, while mysteriously cunjuring your own weapon away.... So all skills are spells - its ridiculas.