----- Original Message -----
From: "erik" <naslund@...>
To: <EverQuest@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: [EverQuest] Re: Hi all

> > From: "J. Smythe" <lgumaer@...>
> >
> > I am sure there are some good ranger 2-hand blunt weapons out there.
>
> Yes there are. But the problem with 2hb is that there are so many better
> weapons for the other weapons types that you rarely find a good 2hb to
work
> up your skill until the later levels. I have 200+ skill in 1 and 2hs,
1hb,
> and piercing but I've never found a 2hb weapon that I could raise skill
> with. Maybe I'll get lucky and win a roll on a Woodsman's staff one day
and
> be able to use that.
>
> There are good 2hb weapons......it's just that there are so many other
> better weapons that are easier to get.

Well, I started practicing 2hb in my 20's with a Buryani Leg ripper I bought
of a player for about 50pp... Fear kiting animals is a good way to get
skill-ups with odd weapons, as it is fairly safe to do solo so you don't
feel a fool in front of other players with the amount of misses you get to
begin with.

Then I moved on to a Froglok Crusher, then a Drakkel Forged Sledgehammer
(these can be bought off vendor for about 110pp if a player has sold one to
the vendor), and now a Drakkel Icegrinder. My 2hb is currently at 186 at
level 47, and it would be maxed but I hardly used it from 35 to 45 as I was
leveling in a hurry in Dawnshroud.

Anyway, my weapon skills at 47 are 1hs, 1hb, piercing all 200, 2hs 190, 2hb
186. I expect to max both 2h before 50.

Matt

Honig Wayfarer
47 Ranger
Cazic Thule