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Changelog
12-21-2013, 09:01 PM
Welcome to Thay. Enjoy the experience. :D
Now, as far as I know, there are plenty of trinkets on Thay that let mundanes (that's characters that cast no spells) have some of the perks casters have. This includes AC (e.g. Brooch of Shielding), which is the main reason two handed warriors are difficult to effectively play.
Whenever you decide to be devoid of a shield, you're taking anything from a -1 to a -8 to AC. This is because the smallest shield is +1 and the biggest is +3. If you add in the most powerful spell to add AC to your shield, it's a maximum of +8. Obviously, that much of AC loss is going to hurt your two handed fighter. Literally and a lot.
To add to this and as a nod to what you said about adding the classes you meant, there's still the issue of other AC enhancing spells, which two handed focused fighters have nothing of.
Outside of this, the attribute buffs like Bull's Strength and Bear's Endurance help your class (which happens to be dependable on these two attributes) and, once again, a fighter class can't really utilize without the help of trinkets or a caster class added.
The plus side to this is that your damage output will probably become substantially better than a sword-and-shield character's own. Most two handed weapons have better base damage and with criticals, this racks up decent damage points.
Concluding, I'd say the loss in AC is a big hit and nearly makes it unworthy to play a two handed warrior if you truly want to have a lot of survivability. That being said, I'd wait until someone who knows a lot about the trinkets and special items in Thay possibly comes along and states how that "evens things out" for you. Also, a very important aspect of Thay is that you can enchant a lot of essential aspects to each of your items. (Such as +3 to AC on armor and +3 enchantment to weapons) This will help your melee oriented archetype a lot, but also requires some notoriety and XP to create.
All in all, I'd advise to find whatever you have the most fun with and stick with that. ;)
Now, as far as I know, there are plenty of trinkets on Thay that let mundanes (that's characters that cast no spells) have some of the perks casters have. This includes AC (e.g. Brooch of Shielding), which is the main reason two handed warriors are difficult to effectively play.
Whenever you decide to be devoid of a shield, you're taking anything from a -1 to a -8 to AC. This is because the smallest shield is +1 and the biggest is +3. If you add in the most powerful spell to add AC to your shield, it's a maximum of +8. Obviously, that much of AC loss is going to hurt your two handed fighter. Literally and a lot.
To add to this and as a nod to what you said about adding the classes you meant, there's still the issue of other AC enhancing spells, which two handed focused fighters have nothing of.
Outside of this, the attribute buffs like Bull's Strength and Bear's Endurance help your class (which happens to be dependable on these two attributes) and, once again, a fighter class can't really utilize without the help of trinkets or a caster class added.
The plus side to this is that your damage output will probably become substantially better than a sword-and-shield character's own. Most two handed weapons have better base damage and with criticals, this racks up decent damage points.
Concluding, I'd say the loss in AC is a big hit and nearly makes it unworthy to play a two handed warrior if you truly want to have a lot of survivability. That being said, I'd wait until someone who knows a lot about the trinkets and special items in Thay possibly comes along and states how that "evens things out" for you. Also, a very important aspect of Thay is that you can enchant a lot of essential aspects to each of your items. (Such as +3 to AC on armor and +3 enchantment to weapons) This will help your melee oriented archetype a lot, but also requires some notoriety and XP to create.
All in all, I'd advise to find whatever you have the most fun with and stick with that. ;)