UO Second Age

I was wondering if there are tribal Spears, the red ones on this shard? Should have been introduced with the lost lands if I remember correctly...

Zwackelzahn wrote:I was wondering if there are tribal Spears, the red ones on this shard? Should have been introduced with the lost lands if I remember correctly...

I haven't seen one on this shard. I can't recall if the tribals in the lost lands always existed or not. Although there is a cave in the mountain near Compassion shrine that has tribesmen and something resembling an untameable frenzied ostard.

They don't exist here. Tribal spears were available in the Lost Lands, but not during the T2A expansion, they came later on when savages were introduced - with savage paint, tribal spears, orcish masks of the kinn (I think)

I think this was closer to Lord Blackthorn's Revenge's update, but I could be totally wrong on that tidbit.

yes spears and tribal paint... the savages would drop some kind of berries and with cooking skill you could make body paint... thought it was in this area but you might be right that all this came in a later patch?! just shortly after...

Zwackelzahn wrote:yes spears and tribal paint... the savages would drop some kind of berries and with cooking skill you could make body paint... thought it was in this area but you might be right that all this came in a later patch?! just shortly after...

I can tell you that definitely wasnt around during this era of T2A. I vaguely remember that, but that was right when I quit like 01 or 02.

Tribal spears were introduced as part of the savage scenario on OSI servers during June of 2001. This stratics BNN news article talks about the savages, and first reports their appearance in this story on June 23, 2001. The tribal spears themselves dropped off of savage riders that rode on savage ridgebacks.

Thanks for the infos!

Can you guys also let me know what weapon currently is the fastest on the shard? Is it still the Katanna with 58 weapon speed or has that been changed? I did a search and I am not sure it still is... so the info which weapon is the fastest is something i cant seem to get.

The katana is the fastest weapon on UOSA, with a speed of 58. This was also true during the T2A era.

Kaivan wrote:The katana is the fastest weapon on UOSA, with a speed of 58. This was also true during the T2A era.

Ok great, thank you very much!

Technically isn't a dagger faster?

Believe it or not, no. The dagger is 55 speed, and the kryss is 53 speed. The katana is the fastest weapon in the game.

Kaivan wrote:Believe it or not, no. The dagger is 55 speed, and the kryss is 53 speed. The katana is the fastest weapon in the game.

Wow, now theres something I never knew about UO.

It's something that was a source of debate a roughly two years ago here, and is something that was disputed on OSI servers by some players as well. Logically speaking, there doesn't seem to be any good reason why a weapon such as the katana would be both faster and have a better bell curve for damage than the kryss. It objectively made the katana a better weapon, and it was a swordsmanship weapon as opposed to a fencing weapon to boot, where fencing was colloquially considered the faster skill - and was for every other weapon. However, the katana is clearly the faster weapon based on certain findings, and the explanation that Matron requested in the damage types thread should help clear up what that evidence is.