fl3a said:str based weapskill hurts you, because
1) your str is lower than str+dex / 2 most of the time
2) assassins enervate you and you lose half of that even alraedy sucky ws
3) you dont have evade based high dmg styles (till 1.64)
in fact..hunters will never blockKami said:damage over time isn't even worth considering when most fights hunters are in are over in seconds one way or the other. Sword skill relies on block/parries for the decent styles, since hunters can't parry and will rarely block due to non-spec in shield it's rather pointless even carrying a sword around. There's even less point trying to justify it by carrying a 2