Re: What's a good Rogue sword

Robert S. wrote:

None of these.

You want the slow heavy hitting weapon in the main hand to take
advantage of sinister strike's damage add.

To keep the poison flowing you want the fast weapon in the off hand.

Or you want two fast weapons so you can apply a lot of poison.


I've investigated the poison build, it's almost viable. It's heaps of fun too. If only it did a little bit more damage to match closer to swords/maces.
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