suggestion: New BAB +1 feat: two handed mode.

[rustbucky]

The animation for 2-handed weapon are used. But the weapon in your left hand is used in the animation you'll deal damage and normal 1.5x strength modifier.
So you can use that longsword in two hands.


Not sure how hard it would be, I suspect it wouldn't be that hard. You're not adding any animations, just have to have a "hotpoint" on the hilt of the weapon where the animation would put the hands when swinging.


It's a standard pen and paper rule. Any slashing or crushing weapon can be used two-handed.

[Angelus_dead]

This was an old suggestion from when DDO was in beta, and it gets revived occasionally.

Notes:
1. There is no reason to limit it by BAB.
2. There's no real reason for it to require an active icon. If a person has equipped a longsword and his left hand is empty, that'll be enough to make him use the two-hand grip.
3. The two-hand grip should allow Dwarf Axes and Bastard Swords to be proficiently used by anyone with the Greataxe or Greatsword proficiency, respectively. This would make Bastard Swords a more attractive item in the loot tables.
4. The loading-screen preview for Module 3 depicted DDO characters wielding dwarf axes two-handed.
5. For D&D fidelity, this feature shouldn't work with finesse weapons like daggers and rapiers.
6. It's important that this feature not work with a Khopesh or Heavy Pick, even though that's a deviation from the D&D rules. That's because there is no two-hander with the same critical profile as those weapons, so holding a khopesh two-handed would actually out-DPS a greataxe (which is aesthetically undesirable).

[SneakThief]

6. It's important that this feature not work with a Khopesh or Heavy Pick, even though that's a deviation from the D&D rules. That's because there is no two-hander with the same critical profile as those weapons, so holding a khopesh two-handed would actually out-DPS a greataxe (which is aesthetically undesirable).

Yeah ... but they do need to add a hugh two handed pick anyway or at least ANY two handed piercing weapon!