Camelot Grab Bag Q&A

EA Mythic’s Missy Hatch has posted another one of her weekly Dark Age of Camelot Grab Bag Q&A features on the Camelot Herald.

Q. In Midgard, do 2handed weapons do more damage than 1handed ones, or have any innate bonuses over 1handed weapons which aren’t listed on the “show info” of the weapon? Or is it just that 2handed weapons are slower on average than 1handed ones?

For example, if I had two hammers with identical stats like this:

1h hammer, base speed 4.0, base dps 10.0
2h hammer, base speed 4.0, base dps 10.0

Would my damage be the same regardless of which one I use?

A. Our Balancinator dug himself out of a pile of spreadsheets and cried (Huzzah!) at the prospect of logging into the game and testing this one out. Seriously, getting to go into game and mess around with the characters is like recess. Here’s what he found out: I took a two handed hammer and made a duplicate of it in a one handed version. The two handed hammer does more damage per hit then the one handed hammer. The difference in damage becomes greater if you use styles.