2 handed sword dexer spec help?

[cptrolo]

Hey guys/gals im looking for some advice on a 2 handed sword dexer. if that is even any good. Im a fan of 2 handers and not so much sword and board. Any tips would be mighty handy thanks!

I have these atm
Swords
Anat
Tacts
Heals
Lumberjacking
Resist
Bushido?
Magery
Chiv

Things that could be good?

Ninjitsu?
Parry?
Necro/SS?
Poisoning?
Eval?
Music/pro/dis/pea?

[Sargoth]

Hi there =)
You are heading the right direction with your build, but since we have 1200 skill cap, we have some nice combinations we can use here... Bard/Warrior can be usefull for crowd control, mostly because of provocation.. you can also use Bard spells which can be usefull in fight. Poisoning is more for a PvP i guess, because stronger mobs are resistant anyway, but you might give it a try =) Ninjitsu? Hmph.. didn't seemed to be usefull enough to cost me 100-120 skill points. The Mirror images are weak and other ninjitsu spells not very usefull on this shard (in my opinion).. Tough monsters (Like Dark Father, Challange Tower monsters, White Walker tradians etc.) they are not strong because of special tactics or spells, they have just like 150 Wrestling / Tactics skill customly changed, which results in overpowered damage..And they can't be stunned/paralyzed or provoked by the way, not even with 120 music/120 provo. So your only chance is to stand the damage or kite them. And you can't kite everywhere (Like the Tower, where the stairs and crowding mobs never loosing their aggro just can't be kited).. Thats why we don't see many mages around, because they don't stand a chance against this type of mobs. As a warrior, your best chance is to try to survive the damage and slowly fight back.

I'll share my Sampire build im using on my 2h Warrior:
1 Swords (120)
2 Tacts (120)
3 Anat (120)
4 Healing (100)
5 Resist (100)
6 Necro (99)
7 Spirit Speak (40)
8 Lumberjacking(100)
9 Bushido (120)
10 Magery (61)
11 Hiding (100)
12 Parrying (120)

Thats exactly 1200 skill points in total

For some explanation:
99 Necro just to be able to put on Vampiric Embrace
40 Spirit Speak for 12 seconds Cursed Weapon (helps you stay alive in combat)
120 Parry + Bushido makes a good block chance with 2h weapon (just like you would have shield)
61 Magery for being able to Recall without scrolls. And you will be able to Gate/Mark with scrolls. I didn't put any more points into magery because i have low int (25 base int) and no Eval Int so no reason to cast other higher magery spells.

It would be nice to put in Chivalry for some extra damage (Consecrate Weapon, Enemy of One) and stamina refresh (Divine Fury).. But i just didn't have enough points. If i'd really want to put in Chiv, i'd probably take away the Hiding, but thats just personal preference =) You could sacrifice Lumberjacking if you like to keep hiding.

The problem with this build and warrior builds in general is, that they are all strongly gear-dependant. You might have a maxxed character, but without a good gear, you have no chance against stronger mobs. Since this is a custom shard, some things doesn't work like in original Ultima.. Imbuing leeches for example, which is critical for most warriors. You leech back HP with Necro spells and you can also get stamina refresh with Chivalry, but without mana leech you won't survive long fights. And switching from Vampiric Embrace into a Wright form isn't very efective. Anyway, i'd suggest using a Double Axe, because it provides the best 2h weapon speed and Whirlwind ability.

If you got any questions, feel free to ask =) I hope it helped.

Have a nice day! =)

[cptrolo]

thanks for the reply helped alot. but what if you got rid of hiding and raised mage to use invisibility instead. that would leave you with 60 left over points for chiv or something. I know invisibility only last for so long but its just a thought. and it would let you do more things like teleport not use any scrolls.

I might do this the ss and necro are lower because I would use bloodwood spirit. and I don't have any scrolls so these will all be gm
1 Swords (120)

2 Tacts (120)

3 Anat (120)

4 Healing (100)

5 Resist (100)

6 Necro (94)

7 Spirit Speak (30)

8 Lumberjacking(100)

9 Bushido (120)

10 Magery (100)

11 Chiv (76)

12 Parrying (120)

[Sargoth]

If you know you are going to use Bloodwood spirit and you are fine with Invis spell over Hiding, i think thats a reasonable idea to save some skill points =) .. Anyway, the gear makes the biggest part of warriors builds. Wish you good luck and lots of fun with this build =))

[maggie]

on this shard
At GM Lumberjacking, there is a 0% chance for a Lumberjacking damage bonus of 100% from base weapon damage.

[Amairgen]

I am not saying this is correct . . but this snip from the BaseWeapon script on our shard (unchanged from RunUO) indicates how the Lumberjacking bonus works here:

/* Compute lumberjacking bonus
* : 1% bonus for every 5 points of lumberjacking
* : +10% bonus at Grandmaster or higher
*/
double lumberBonus;

if (Type == WeaponType.Axe)
{
double lumberValue = attacker.Skills[SkillName.Lumberjacking].Value;

lumberBonus = (lumberValue / 5.0) / 100.0;

if (lumberValue >= 100.0)
lumberBonus += 0.1;
}
else
{
lumberBonus = 0.0;
}