Two handed fighting?

[Joemama]

I was looking at two handed fighting for a feat, but it says that it only helps the glancing blows, im just wondering if its worth taking on a battle bard. It seems like it is just a waste of a good feat slot. Should I just take imp. crit slash. for grt axes?

what im really asking is what does it acctually help with, besides the in game definition.

[rezo]

I would if you are going to take Improved Two Handed Fighting (see below ). If not then don't waste your feat on it. Imp. Crit. Slashing would be better.

Improved Two Handed Fighting
Usage: Passive
Increases the attack bonus and damage of glancing blow attacks when wielding a two-handed weapon. Also increases the chance for weapon effects to trigger on glancing blows.

[honkuimushi]

The first one doesn't do much. Most of the glancing blows I saw with my current TWF build were less than 5 points each. But once I picked up ITHF, I was seeing numbers almost half of my normal damage-- about 10 -20 damage a pop. That's not insignificant. I haven't gotten to GTHF yet. But what might be even more important is the ability to add effects to glancing blows in the future. Just alignment and elemental damage will make a big difference in terms of DPS and the the prospect of Vorpals on glancing blows is really interesting.

While THF is still probably behing TWF, Glancing blows is one of the few things that keep things close. Ignoring them means that you are not using the full potential of two handed fighting. ANd really, how many feats are there that will increase your damage more than the THF chain? What feats would you take instead?

[Depravity]

I've been intrigued by the possibilites offered by weakening two-handers - with glancing blows occasionally procing strength damage, it should reduce incoming damage a bit, both from damage penalties and drops in to-hit.

IIrc, the numbers I heard coming from beta were base 3%, + 3% for each THF feat, WF THF enhancement, and frenzied barb or kensai tier. A complete specialist would have 30% chance to proc per glance. (that may be no base and 4 tiers of WF, I forgets)

[RATRACE931]

if your planning on using 2 handers then u need the feats imo, glancing blows add alot of damage in the game NOW not to mention what they COULD do in mod 9

[BlackSteel]

much like TWF, its an all or nothing endeavor, take all 3 feats or dont bother

[Noctus]

much like TWF, its an all or nothing endeavor, take all 3 feats or dont bother


/signed.