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<blockquote data-quote="FrankTrollman" data-source="post: 1188709" data-attributes="member: 14225">The part he's glossing over is that Devanian Weapons are exotic. So you pay 2 feats to fight at -0/-0 with two light weapons or 3 feats to fight at -0/-0 with medium weapons.The advantage is the same as that of the Devanian Weapons. You spend an exotic weapon proficiency and then you can dual-wield the equivalent of two medium weapons. The Darthmaulsword does the same damage with each end as a Longsword.So essentially in either case you are spending 1 feat and a huge pile of money to do 1 extra point of damage per attack. If you have as many attacks with your off-hand as you do with your main hand (which you don't, but let's pretend) - it's the same total bonus that any normal fighter would get from Weapon Specialization except with a huge monetary cost.Fundamentally, I'm not impressed with the worthwhileness of the final feat in this. I mean, TWF needs to get damage bonuses that are equal with each attack to pay off - getting smaller bonuses that combined are as big as the normal ones isn't really an advantage at all.-Frank</blockquote>

[QUOTE="FrankTrollman, post: 1188709, member: 14225"] The part he's glossing over is that Devanian Weapons are [i]exotic[/i]. So you pay 2 feats to fight at -0/-0 with two light weapons or 3 feats to fight at -0/-0 with medium weapons. The advantage is the same as that of the Devanian Weapons. You spend an exotic weapon proficiency and then you can dual-wield the equivalent of two medium weapons. The Darthmaulsword does the same damage with each end as a Longsword. So essentially in either case you are spending 1 feat and a huge pile of money to do 1 extra point of damage per attack. If you have as many attacks with your off-hand as you do with your main hand (which you don't, but let's pretend) - it's the same total bonus that any normal fighter would get from Weapon Specialization except with a huge monetary cost. Fundamentally, I'm not impressed with the worthwhileness of the final feat in this. I mean, TWF [i]needs[/i] to get damage bonuses that are equal with each attack to pay off - getting smaller bonuses that [i]combined[/i] are as big as the normal ones isn't really an advantage at all. -Frank [/QUOTE]

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