Arrakis wrote:Sleeper, your weapons sucked badly when I lived in Nashville. Like, I was tempted to build you an actually nice redsword just once so you'd get addicted to how nice fighting with a well-made weapon is and have to start buying good stuff instead of just duct taping bad foam to whatever core you have handy at the time and covering it with a pair of nylons.
If you're still making crap swords, then you going through them that quickly is reasonable. I recommend you build something nicer (this will help you keep from breaking humans, as well). However, I don't recall you hitting particularly hard. Of course, I built stabbing tips on my swords and so rarely had difficulty defeating red weapon fighters from Dur Demarion, so maybe that is warping my experiences.
Anyway, Fork is right, as he sometimes is: if stuttering and then throwing elsewhere or changing your starting position and opening shots isn't stopping the headshot, you're not doing those things like you think you are or you're dealing with one particularly bad headboxer who really does deserve the brain damage.
Ask a good sword'n'board vet to help you work on it. I don't know if anyone of any ability still fights down there, though. Is Koom still fighting? Iliak? I know Izzy isn't...
yeah. they were crap swords, I agree. But if I go through Edhellen redswords just as fast as my own, I don't think it has anything to do with the construction. I destroyed an Edhellen greatsword in ONE day (at Rag) so no, it isn't my sword durability. (hah, without your stabby, I used to crush you, but before you left, you were kicking my * left and right, I remember.) Koom still fights but not at Elmington, Illiac is still there, still woopin me but yea, haven't seen Izzy for a LONG time. And no, its not the same person, there are a few. (however, though your weapons were pretty, they were overweight, but maybe you got better, but thats just my opinion) I built my swords to be light. I once built monsters that were a foot wide and would never hurt anybody, even when hit in the face. (Raquee, rockee, a famous BloodFalcon even disarmed me and hit me in the head with one and It didn't hurt in anyway). But people started to refuse to take my redshots, no matter how hard I hit. So I moved onto the less padding. People started taking their redhits, but thats when I started injuring people. When I first started, it wasn't like that.
At Fratari:
This is just begging to be picked apart.
(I'll defend my words)
You guys just must'nt fight hard.
[*, you have no grounds to say that to anyone unless you have been to their practice.]
(I could say the same, he's never seen me fight, therefore he can't say I'm sloppy or unsafe)
I've broken my own finger swinging the big sword.
[This statement refutes the first part of the next]
(how?)
And I have control over my sword,
well, as far as one can with a big sword.
[You can have perfect control over a big sword; you just don't.]
(I do, like I said, swords are different than glaives, its all in the handle)
They are different than glaives...
[They're shorter.]
(perhaps, but if I make a seven foot redsword, its a sword, not a glaive)
Cause they have a small handle,
[Build them with with bigger handles. You can have 2 feet of handle on a six foot sword, more if you add some incidental padding and grip that. Hell you can cut some blade foam right off the core if you don't want to build a whole new sword. All in all, that's no excuse; it's easily fixed.]
(Its not excuse, maybe it came off that way, but, like I said, if I followed that, it would become a glaive, and I suck at glaive fighting. I am decent at swording, its all in the handle length.)
less control,
[See above.]
more redshot power.
[Simply wrong. The extended handle of a glaive allows for much more power.]
(For me, I can deliver a harder redshot, because thats what I am used to. I could explain but that would take to long)
So yes, any large sword is gonna be dangerous.
[If used improperly.]
(Tell that to people in DurD. Maybe the "correct" way is to not fight at all with them)
Guess the bottom line is I was hoping you guys would have better suggestions than what people around DurD have already told me.
[Then the guys at DurD gave you good advice.]
(They did, and if you read my posts above, I agreed)
But ya didn't.
[What the **** is with "ya". How much time did you save typing "a" instead of "ou"?]
(lol who gives a ****. ya mad?)
At Phlebas:
What I mean by "harder" is simply swinging hard. But there are a few that refuse to take a redshot unless it makes a loud SMACK, regardless of how hard it hit, even when I move them. They seemed to standardize on how hard a redshot is and yes, some (Thrax, Slaug) will take light redshots. Others, want you to literally move their body. I remember tearing someones shield off their handle.
But I'll try all the suggestions, again. I am moving onto small redswords. (you guys make think I am bragging but ask the DurD vets about me, I am like the joke of belegarth, cloudsword, blah blah blah. But I am not bragging, I think some people might have misunderstood my words about hurting people. Admitting something like that can be hard but I thought what the hell, might as well, even if it makes me look bad)
Peanut: cool, I got ya. If I am wrong, I will admit it. But I don't agree..... yet. I will try this crap out tommorrow, if I still hit someone in the head, well, guess its time for a big reevaluation of how I fight, as ole Fork said.