The main character can duel wield?

[Soulphia]

I heard from someone else that its possible for the main character to duel wield sword. Is this under swordmastery? I've yet to find it.

[LordBlade]

It's under the Swords section. Up at the top of it. So Flame Slash, Attack Power +3 and then Dual Wield.

[Soulphia]

hmm is it the secret locked panel? beside attack power + 3 and dragon slash?

[TommyEV]

Originally posted by Takanoshiden:

hmm is it the secret locked panel? beside attack power + 3 and dragon slash?

Top left of the grid.

[Soulphia]

Originally posted by TommyEV:

Originally posted by Takanoshiden:

hmm is it the secret locked panel? beside attack power + 3 and dragon slash?

Top left of the grid.

yea its gotta be the locked panel cause i don't see anything about duel wielding yet

[Chibi-Moogle]

Take into consideration though that you are sacrificing defense for more offense. Which can work out well if you build the characters right, same goes for Greatswords. =3

As tempted as I was to do dual-wield, I went the safe route with the hero and did sword and shield for him. ^^

You can make Erik or Sylvando dual wield as well, but I think their panels are in different places from the Hero. Erik's is in Knives I beleive. ^-^

And I think Sylvando's panel for that is in swords as well.

[Sugoi]

Please forgive the pedantry, but the word is dual. :)

Also, due to the way that strength scaling and defense interact, you're going to hit different points in the game where Greatswords & spears outshine DW and vice-versa. Greatswords are stronger in early game and then quickly become overshadowed until the postgame, at which point the huge defense boosts that enemies get will make DW damage pathetic for a while. As you gain levels and get some of the best 1h weapons again, things begin to even out, though.

[Chibi-Moogle]

Originally posted by Sugoi:

Please forgive the pedantry, but the word is dual. :)

Also, due to the way that strength scaling and defense interact, you're going to hit different points in the game where Greatswords & spears outshine DW and vice-versa. Greatswords are stronger in early game and then quickly become overshadowed until the postgame, at which point the huge defense boosts that enemies get will make DW damage pathetic for a while. As you gain levels and get some of the best 1h weapons again, things begin to even out, though.

Sorry my bad. XD I'll edit that.

[Hakimoto]

I think the main alure of dual wielding is slime hunting, as you get more attacks on each slime than if you use a shield or two handed weapon.

[TommyEV]

Originally posted by Hakimoto:

I think the main alure of dual wielding is slime hunting, as you get more attacks on each slime than if you use a shield or two handed weapon.

Also status effects, off the top of my head. My Erik is using a dagger with instant death and another with paralysis. Also both hits have a chance of being crits, not just the first one.

[[NGNS-SWE] ⚡ Quezkatolen ⚡]

Originally posted by Hakimoto:

I think the main alure of dual wielding is slime hunting, as you get more attacks on each slime than if you use a shield or two handed weapon.

yupp.
but Erik can always land a sure crit hit which makes you able to snipe any metal... ofc you wont always have Erik in your party maybe when you enouncter a slime and then equipping that extra sword for metal slash is def worth it, OR you even equip two falcon blades and you do 8 dmg per hit.

[Soulphia]

i honestly will probably try to do a full on duel wield main character and see how it goes currently on strong monster draconian mode also i can always reset stats if things look rough

[Efesell]

Greatswords were garbage for 90% of this game and now post credits I can see why people were higher on them but I'm still not convinced they're Better.

[Eclipsis Tenebris]

Dual wielding is much, MUCH more useful if you do a No Armour Draconic quest, since you can't use shields.

Although it only surpasses the usefullness of Greatswords if you also have 'no shopping' and 'strong enemies' active.

The reason for this is that without shopping, the strongest weapons you have access before proceeding to the next area are often single-handed swords... although regrettably often they are rare drops from annoying/rare enemies and you also need to reforge them to +3... still.

You also get twice the hits, meaning, twice the chance to crit and ignore enemy defence.

That said, late-post game the Greatswords CAN outperform them if only for the chance of completely negating damage and the extra counterattacks... especially if you use the defence stance...

And trust me, on a full Draconian run, that's not a bad idea...