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<blockquote data-quote="Jack Daniel" data-source="post: 1206470" data-attributes="member: 694">About the worst thing you can do to improved the style is add more feats. Two-Weapon Fighting already suffers from being too feat-intensive, and every couple of levels you get diminishing returns burning an ever-higher level feat on a progressively weaker extra attack. The restrictiveness of the style makes it only worthwhile for fighters and rangers who are multiclassed with rogue levels. The berserking barbarian with two axes is right out of the picture, since it just takes too many feats to keep up with the damage.&nbsp;Here's my method: first, drop Greater Two-Weapon Fighting. Nix the feat, it's gone. Next, raise the prereq for Improved Two-Weapon Fighting back up to +9 -- neccessary for balance, otherwise this gets too good for rogues to pass up. Change the feat so that I2WF does what Perfect 2WF used to do -- it now grants as many iterative off-hand attacks as you can make with your primary hand, not just one extra attack at -5. Now the feat is just about worth taking. For epic characters, change Perfect Two-Weapon Fighting so that it does what Absolute Ambidexterity did for the tempest prestige class -- reducing 2WF penalties by 2 in each hand. Now the style is viable.&nbsp;<img src="http://people.ku.edu/~ivan327/images/jdblack.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " data-size="" style="" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jack Daniel, post: 1206470, member: 694"] [font=Book Antiqua]About the worst thing you can do to improved the style is add more feats. Two-Weapon Fighting already suffers from being too feat-intensive, and every couple of levels you get diminishing returns burning an ever-higher level feat on a progressively weaker extra attack. The restrictiveness of the style makes it only worthwhile for fighters and rangers who are multiclassed with rogue levels. The berserking barbarian with two axes is right out of the picture, since it just takes too many feats to keep up with the damage.[/font] [font=Book Antiqua]Here's my method: first, drop Greater Two-Weapon Fighting. Nix the feat, it's gone. Next, raise the prereq for Improved Two-Weapon Fighting back up to +9 -- neccessary for balance, otherwise this gets too good for rogues to pass up. Change the feat so that I2WF does what Perfect 2WF used to do -- it now grants as many iterative off-hand attacks as you can make with your primary hand, not just one extra attack at -5. Now the feat is just about worth taking. For epic characters, change Perfect Two-Weapon Fighting so that it does what Absolute Ambidexterity did for the tempest prestige class -- reducing 2WF penalties by 2 in each hand. Now the style is viable.[/font] [font=Book Antiqua][img]http://people.ku.edu/~ivan327/images/jdblack.jpg[/img][/font] [/QUOTE]

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