Talk:Swordsmanship

Most of what was added is really about swords, not swordsmanship. --Karlos 15:44, 31 October 2005 (EST)

Swordsmanship beyond requirement increases damage?
The page says It affects the damage done when attacking with a sword: the damage is increased by 4% for each point over the minimum requirement for the weapon. I believe this is kinda confusing.

To my understanding, this would mean, that a swordsman, who has swd attribute 11, would do ~8% more damage with a sword, that had req 7 than one with req 9. And from what I have understood from the 'damage' section of this wiki, there is no such effect in the damage formula. It is true, that increasing the weapon attribute that is 12+, increases the damage dealt by 3.5% (And 9% for swordsmanship 11 or below), through changing the Effective Damage Level (EffDL). So maybe this is what the original author meant?

Or is there some factor that I was unaware of?