05-09-2003, 08:15 AM
My actual dueling experience is very limited. But I have done testing on some of the things you are asking in this thread. First of all, regarding the elemental damage, it is only elemental bows that do extreme damage. Elemental melee weapons do exactly what their description says, which frankly isn't much. Now in PvP, there are a lot of aspects to this. One is the question of whether you miss because of the opponents AC. Using a lightning sword, this might be a problem. If your to hit is high enough and you hit, now you have both the regular damage and the elemental damage. Now if the opponent has resistance to the element, he will block the physical attack and take a small amount of elemental damage. But if he has no resistance to the element, he may sometimes block the elemental attack, allowing the entire physical attack to get through! Assuming he has Player Hostile on, that physical attack may stun him, possibly preventing him from blocking the next swing and putting him in big trouble.
When two players have perfect blocking and there are no magic/elemental weapons in play, it's the person who tries to move that usually gets screwed over. You can't block while walking. In a warrior vs. warrior duel, I suspect it is to your advantage to wait for the other guy to step into your range. Trying to walk away from a warrior whom you have been blocking is probably suicide.
Getting perfect blocking for a duel is extremely easy. I can't imagine any shield-wearing not having perfect blocking for a duel against someone the same level. You need what, 100 DEX? Mostly if someone fails to block it will be because they are trying to do something other than blocking or swinging.
When two players have perfect blocking and there are no magic/elemental weapons in play, it's the person who tries to move that usually gets screwed over. You can't block while walking. In a warrior vs. warrior duel, I suspect it is to your advantage to wait for the other guy to step into your range. Trying to walk away from a warrior whom you have been blocking is probably suicide.
Getting perfect blocking for a duel is extremely easy. I can't imagine any shield-wearing not having perfect blocking for a duel against someone the same level. You need what, 100 DEX? Mostly if someone fails to block it will be because they are trying to do something other than blocking or swinging.