Two Weapon Fighting Adjustments

Started by Fuzz, May 29, 2024, 01:55:21 PM

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Fuzz

Two suggestions:

1- Add in Two Weapon Defense as a feat. This gives you a +2 Shield AC bonus when you have two weapons or a dual weapon equipped. The only prerequisite for it is Dual Wield (the Ranger feat) or Two Weapon Fighting, and it can be taken as a Fighter bonus feat. This is a standard feat in 3.5E and NWN2, and a lot of servers have adopted it.

2- Due to the feat economy on EFU being so tight, Ambidexterity + Two Weapon Fighting is straight up a feat tax. You would never take one but not the other, so you just have to burn an extra feat if you want to even be mildly passable at that fighting style. Since it still comes with the AB penalty to each hand, why not just bake them into a single feat, a la Duel Wield, and have it have a Dexterity requirement of 13 or something like that.

Redshirt

I mostly agree with point 2 but I think 13 dexterity is too low. I think currently the requirement is 14, but wouldn't mind it going to 15 (paying a stat tax instead of a feat tax makes it costly but not prohibitive to any who don't get bonus feats/perks that can go towards dual wielding).

Can't really weigh in on point 1, I think the server's design has mostly balanced itself on the ac/ab front.