Fencing

A melee combat Weapon Skill, that uses weapons that consist of a "piercing/jabbing" action. Fencing weapons are generally lightweight and a quick to strike. It is the best melee class available for use with Poisoning.

The damage for most fencing weapons is calculated predominately with few dice where as Swordsmanship is predominately calculated with more dice (2-3). Thus fencing has a more varied damage distribution.

Weapons

All fencing weapons can be crafted by Blacksmiths, with the exception of the Pitchfork. Pitchforks can be crafted by Tinkers. They can be found in the Tools category of the crafting menu.

Piercing
Type		Strength Required	Damage	Speed	Hits
image	Dagger	1	3d5+0	55	31-40
image	Pitchfork	15	4d4+0	45	31-60
image	Short Spear	15	2d15+2	50	31-70
image	Spear	30	2d18+0	46	31-80
image	War Fork	35	1d29+3	45	31-110
image	Kryss	10	1d26+2	53	31-90

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Pros:

• The weapons can be poisoned

• Has the fastest and highest damage-over-time two-handed weapon (Short Spear)

Cons"

• No stamina drain bonus attack that Mace Fighting has

• Not the hardest hitting weapon class

Notes

Short Spear is the fastest hitting two-handed weapon, and also has the highest damage-over-time for two-handed weapons

Spear is a little slower than the Short Spear, but has a chance to hit harder

Kryss is the fastest and highest damage-over-time single-handed fencing weapon

War Fork is a fast and high damage single handed weapon

See Also

Archery - Fencing - Mace Fighting - Swordsmanship - Wrestling