UO Second Age

Tactics is purely a damage mod, it has no effect on your chance to hit or miss. You have 88.5 swords which gives you a 46% chance to hit your opponent, assuming they are GM wrestling (or whichever melee skill they are using).

Fencing isn't any different though. At gm Fencing you will still have a 50% chance to miss.

Yeah all melee skills have the same chance to hit or miss. You have to use potions (buff your strength to 120, use bandage/gh/cure pots) and have enough resist to take spells. Any dexer can be almost invulnerable on the field with the right equipment.

I'm a Swordsman Dexer. You need more Resist sir.

dont forget to p dip your weps. cant p dip a mace/bow remember

get gm swords/ gm resist/ trap pouches and carry pots so u stay alive longer bc once hes out of mana u can whip out your p kat and run him down wait till his life is <50 and switch to your hally for the death blow.

http://www.uosecondage.com/stratics/arms.html

I'd recommend giving that a look over when deciding which melee skills/weapons you want to use. I believe it is currently accurate.

Unfortunately, that Stratics page is inaccurate for the katana speed... try the Wiki:
http://wiki.uosecondage.com/Weapons

It's times like this when we need Mikel123...

Bacon, you talk a lot of shit in trash talk for having such a crappy build. How are you not at least 5x and why do you have gm hiding? Also, you have no business attacking anyone with only 68 healing.

For being a supposed veteran, you seem to suck an awful lot.

Keep an eye on your stamina when you are fighting, if you have 100 dex and were swinging slow, the ebolts probably sapped your stamina. Swingtime is based on stamina not the dex stat (I don't know if this is a change from when you previously played).

A broadsword should swing plenty fast, though a kryss swings .25 seconds faster at 100 stam.

bacon be trollin...i hope.

Zelek Uther wrote:Unfortunately, that Stratics page is inaccurate for the katana speed... try the Wiki:
http://wiki.uosecondage.com/Weapons

It's times like this when we need Mikel123...

ah thanks. I couldn't remember which was accurate, that or the wiki.

You mentioned archery in an above post, don't even bother putting it on a non PvM character unless you only plan on taking 1 shot. It doesn't even make a good opener for a dexer anymore.

I agree with Matron. If you're concerned about not attacking as soon as you dbl clicl ot target something then you'll be very unimpressed with Archery since it has that feature built right in lol.

Archery is almost only reasonable when used from stealth in it's current form.

The whole purpose of using it as an opener is to instantly do big damage and then swap to another weapon. Currently, you are likely to attack someone, stand there like a moron for 5 seconds or so, then shoot, and stay put for 1 second until the damage is done, but by that time they are 10 screens away or around a corner, in which case your LOS check fails and you auto-miss. You are better off just going at something with the weapon in the first place.

Matron isn't even exaggerating either, that's the sad part. I had the audacity to try and use archery on a character that didn't have 80+ dexterity once too...and I thought it was bad on my dexer...