Centi Shortsword  

 

I just sold one on fennin ro for 2200plat,, all the other traders got it for 2500 to 2750 plat.

personally i think that you should spend your money on a nice ry gorr tunic. They are normally around 150-300p on our server (bertoxx) and will last you till around 45 (or you get get my tunic which was 100-200p). I would also go back to kelethin and do some of the newbie armour quests. They have str and sta which are very important and are about 1-3 ac less than banded. I would do the bracers, legs, boots, and gloves. If you dont want better armour than just wait for the prices to go down some because unless you server is over twinked and peeps are will to pay 500p for a centi then i would switch servers.

Edited, Tue Jan 21 17:00:38 2003

well, if you were a warrior, ranger, bard or rogue, you might like this better, since the sporali is Pal/SK only.

Plus sporali has a ratio of 2.176, centi short is 2.083. Since lower ratio is better, centi has the advantage.

Also, once you hit lvl 28, you begin to get a damage bonus on melee classes. As that damage bonus goes up, a faster weapon will outperform a slower one.

Say a lvl 32 pally is looking at these swords. I believe the bonus at 32 is 2, for 1hs. So, the sporali would be essentially a 19 damage, 37 delay weapon 1.95 ratio), while the centi would be 14 dmg, 25 delay (1.79 ratio).

The higher your level, the more the centi outperforms the sporali.

Also, faster weapons mean more taunt, so if your pally/sk is the tank for a grind group, he'll hold aggro better with the centi.

+5 str means higher attack, which means you hit more often, and for more damage.

Last, stamina = more HP, so sword with +5 stamina, is better than sword without +5 stamina

Longer than I intended, but this is why a centi short sword is better than a sporali defender's blade.

Level.

yeah the bazaar is cool, i bought my centi ss for 100pp, a Arbitors ccmbine greatsword for 200pp, velium etched stone mace for 70 pp.

You could have 250 str, and if you use a heavy weapon, and don't have stamina over 100, you'll still need that "zing"

Get stamina over 100, and you can fight all day with the stamina bar empty.

scholar its VERY possible to get a centi for 7pp vendors have NO SENSE OF VALUE what so ever most lore and magic items are worth nothing at a vendor

Think of it this way. If you buy one good weapon, you have one good weapon, but one weapon can only do damage once. If you buy two lesser weapons but can do damage faster in the long run you'll do more damge. I bought my centi SS first and it worked great, and it was cheap enough that I could save up for it fairly easy. If your a ranger like me, centi SS and haste will keep your aggro down, and benefit your group by allowing you to do good damage, and benefit you by not dying. Buy the SS, then a little later on buy the LS. That is what I did and it worked well for me

Faster weapon in Secondary when you are trying to build your Dual Wield skill.

If that's maxed, put the faster weapon in Primary.

The attacks ARE independent, but the better your DW, the more overall damage your going to be able to dish.

--Freyhr, Songweaver and Jack-of-All-Trades

Use the centi in primary. This allows dual weild to have a chance to work with every swing. Else, it will be every other swing.

Its been tested. They are independant (wield a non-attack primary and you will see 2nd still attack)

You get a dmg bonus PER HIT on the primary. So best to have the FASTEST weapon you can get in primary, and BEST RATIO in 2nd.

My warrior wields a 10/18 in primary and 16/29 in off hand for instance. My Dmg Bonus at 54 is 9, so my primary is a 10+9/18. which does some good dmg :) Hope that helps.

PS. sometimes i wield faster weapon in off hand also, depending on lenght of fight. but in long fights, the better ratio does more dmg. Also, faster weapons have more chances to hit, so if you missing 1/2 the time, prolly don't want a slow weapon... cause each miss essentually doubling your delay..

Runjun,
It is my understanding that in order to have a chance to dual wield on every attack your primary weapon should be slower than you secondary. Therefore use the Jagged in your primary and the Centi in your off hand.
good luck to you.

Santi Windrider
33 Ranger
Stormhammer

It doesn't matter to you or the warrior below which hand you equip your weapons in. As long as you get more twinked, it just doesn't matter.

If you do not intend to be the main tank then I would definately go with the Wurmy in main and the Centi LS in the off hand. However if you are the main tank switch to the LS main and the SS off hand.
Remember when you are the main tank the speed of your weapons is vital to keeping agro.

Santi Windrider
33 Ranger
Stormhammer

Ewwww wurmy to slow IMO, way to slow, i have a goranga club and a centi LS on my warr

Looted one of these for my 21 tank. It looks like a plain version of the sword the Val Shir tiger is holding on the "loading" screen getting into game. It's short (duh), slightly curve, and grey. Not sure about the atk bonus, but compaired to the Dwarvin Axe he was using, it's wonderful.

That just means that the person who took the screenshot couldn't wield it. The damage bonus varies depending on class and level (and maybe STR? Don't know about that), so if the person examining it can't wield it, it doesn't show a damage bonus. And, at level 37, my centi shortsword shows a damage bonus of 4, just like every other weapon I've thought to check so far (just went up from 3 at level 36).