New to Odyssey, quick questions:

[Komspaynye]

So I just started playing Odyssey, loving it so far. I’ve got a few questions about some of the weapon stats and combat. So far, my gameplay style is mainly buffing Assassin and Warrior damage.
The first question is in regards to the DPS of various weapons. I have a sword that is 319 DPS, and then a staff that is 290 DPS, and yet I find the staff is way quicker to kill people than the sword? So I’m wondering what the DPS stat actually represents?
Secondly, are there more than 1 or 2 combos with a given weapon based on the combination / order of light and heavy attacks you do?
Thanks in advance! applinked

 

[Bottom Hat]

Ummmm, who wants to point it out first?

 

[Ethaidan]

There are innumerable combinations! Personally, I prefer knockdown-disarm while dual-weilding rapiers.

 

[Retropolitan]

The staff has a strong defensive advantage, since it can be used to hold a sword-wielding opponent off - out of his own range - leaving you free to pummel him about the head. But the spear is a definite advancement over the staff because it has the same defensive strength in addition to the pointy bit at the end.

 

[MVBanks]

This is not Assasin Creed Odyssey forum, sorry.

 

[LeoBartlet]

 

[Wildcard]

Personally I prefer hunter, with great mobility and high dps even with low end gear you can 1-2 shot most enemies, and since the right pet can tank to great affect your never in any real danger! as far as dps the stats pretty much speak for them self. Especially if you have recount!

 

[Rat Catcher]

Try eating your horse?

 

[Bottom Hat]

Try eating your horse?

Cooked or raw? I've not tried this method on my hero.

 

[GJ51]

"It is thy rod and thy staff that comfort me..."

 

[Crank Larson]

If you duct tape the sword to the staff, you get higher DPS and increased range.

 

[Bottom Hat]

If you duct tape the sword to the staff, you get higher DPS and increased range.

Can you do the same thing with the sword and spear, to make a kind of medieval sith weapon? I imagine you would have a large DPS AoE buff when pulling off a Ryuken special combo move.... inside your space assassin.

 

[Bottom Hat]

I am wondering a little though, should we start a book on whether the OP has not replied out of:

A. Embarrassment after realisation.

B. Passed out from booze after post.

C. Has been twatted by Sally (the forum assassin).

D. Been sectioned into hospital.

or ....

E. Simply can't remember which forum or game he/she made the post in, what it was about, or where he/she lost the plot.

 

[Lord Rak]

 

[robbyp]

It's a new genre. Go and ask a gaming question on the wrong forum. I'm off to msfs forums to ask about anaconda loadouts.

 

[Gwyther]

Erm.... I'm very confused.

But then so is the OP it seems.

 

[Lord Rak]

Since we are off topic, is it ok to go and play golf or tennis only in Grand Theft Auto 5 and complain about it is not realistic ?

 

[Frankymole]

Can you do the same thing with the sword and spear, to make a kind of medieval sith weapon?

Do you mean a glaive-guisarme? Cutting, Impaling, 2-H, Reach 2. Combo of a glaive blade with the spear-and-hook of the guisarme. Basically the reverse of the Bill-Guisarme.

 

[Bottom Hat]

Do you mean a glaive-guisarme? Cutting, Impaling, 2-H, Reach 2. Combo of a glaive blade with the spear-and-hook of the guisarme. Basically the reverse of the Bill-Guisarme.

I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say yes, as your explanation is far better than mine of a sith stabby weapon!

 

[Frankymole]

That's AD&D for you This article was a most amusing reminder - especially about them not bothering to show what any of the multifarious polearms looked like!

What the $&@# is a Glaive-Guisarme?

One of the most comical things about the 1st ed. AD&D rules was this odd combination of information overload with no definitions. For instan...

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"I instead divided the polearms into types: Choppity, Forky, Slashy-Pokey, Multi-Tool and Spear."