I see Short Swords referenced here. Can someone help me get into them? They’re never dropped, as far as I can tell, and they seem somewhat awkward for my size and style.
After some recent testing, at this point I’m going to add that PvP includes an extra element of gameplay: proficient recovery. When I’m killed I have learned it is often better to get a lower-end wep from an NPC, then kill for a better weapon up the chain until I can re-engage the enemy who stole my custom-dyed shorts. In other words I think I’ve become a universalist of scrounged weapons. This is often more efficient than running to my hut, f-keying my foot locker and hitting the enemy, with yet another kit to lose.
I mostly use the greatsword, the short sword, and now the battle axe. I’ve recently fallen in love with the battle axe lol.
the short sword is my pvp weapon of choice and it can really thrash an opponent fast. it uses little stamina, causes alot of stun, and the heavy attack closes ground pretty well. its coupled well with heavy armor and high grit, you can dodge and attack pretty well like a bob and weave.
the two handed sword is my panic mode in pve lol. the battle axe is pretty impressive, but whenever I need to start slaying i always bust out teliths sorrow.
my only problem with short swords are the weapon designs, to be honest, i wouldn’t mind if they used actual weapon models that are actually “shortswords” like the khopesh or the tulwar of amir khurum, even shorter versions of the current “longswords”.
I’m just a little enthusiast of swords and medieval or ancient weapons in general, but mostly swords, because they are awesome.
When they anounced they were going to introduce shortswords i was hyped, i imagined they would make weapons like the roman gladius, or similar kind of swords. but they made this… things, that look like nerf guns compared to a real weapons, i know, it’s fantasy, but c’mon, they look out of place, as if they were taken straight from WoW or another generic asian mmo.
I’m very displeased with them, i don’t use them only because of how they look, deferent from the battle axe, that i think they did an amazing job with the weapon models, but the attacks are terrible, just terrible. I said it before, you have pretty nice animation for two handed axes in age of conan, i know is not that easy but it’s something i would like to see, instead of this spining attack, again, from generic mmos.
I really need to learn to use a shield with my one-handed weapons, something I’ve not really done in a long time. I used to use a shield back in the day when Darfari archers were dangerous to my character, but these days I can face-tank them naked without problems.
But I recently started wandering in the Volcano, and those archers living there are real jerks. Having a board between me and them is starting to sound like a good idea. (I sometimes have a broad between me and them, but taking a thrall to the lava flows is always a risk.)
Shield + 1H axe
2h sword
1H sword (+torch or free left hand)
Special mention ; the weapon i’d really really like to love but that i hate : the katana.
The design idea for how it works is awesome.
But the execution of the idea is soooo unpractical and frustating to use.
The end of the animations lag for ages. You can’t orient your character/hits protperly, specialy the heavy attack. The reset/cancel animation for the heavy attack takes a decade to performe. When you draw your weapon your caracter refuse to run for like 2-3 sec for … reasons. Afl the ligh attacks somehow land NOT on the still target right in front of you … this weapon … is just … RRAAAAAHHHHH !
Throwing axe in one hand and throwing spear in the other is what I have been enjoying recently. Use the throwing spear as the melee weapon which you can still throw and keep up the cripple effects with throwing axes.