Extend Your Lifespan: You too can live 1000 years - Boba Fett The Art of Misdirection: How to lull your victim into a false sense of...Blast them in the head! - Han Solo Pave the Grand Canyon: Improvements on perfection - George Lucas

I wonder how they feel about my Dark Side Sith Jedi Guardian then

Nah, server population for the OZ servers is perfect. Don't change a thing. There is a little wait time during peak times, but the rest of the time the load is spot on. Its nothing like the wait time during the first days of the US launch. 10-15 mins max. You need a little full server peak time action to balance out the offpeak times.

No point I arguing about something like this in a forum it's like claiming that my lightning bolt beats your magic missile. I use live bladed katanas. I've used them against straw dummies. In the old days they would test them against condemned criminals to see how well they cut. I think it would be difficult for me to prove my cutting power in this way though these days (maybe in Texas?). To say that a particular technique will not work is not sensible as you could never test it in real life. To say that there is not enough power in an underhand attack when hand to hand combat doesn't require cleaving, severing strikes to kill is again probably never going to be based on real life situations and merely opinion. Severing fingers or a wrist is very easy. I have broken an opponents wrist with a Shinai, so to say that there wouldn't be enough power to do it with a katana, even with a small ammount of force (no not "the force") is not correct. All you have to do is disable an opponent to kill them. Remove a finger or two and they can't hold their sword. You don't need to cleave your opponent in twain to win a bout. It's not all about power. The tip of a sword can kill as easily as the blade. As Musashi proved (if you believe the story) you can do it with a bokken. To get caught up in a "my technique is better than yours" in a forum discussion is a little pointless. Doubly so when discussing lightsabers I would think

Sure there is. We could all meet up is park in Austin and go at each other with our respective dual styles. The survivors can explain to the media how Star Wars made us do it. It would be a great publicity boost for the game and would surely bring a flood of new players. Just like that "magic missile" viral video did for Dungeons and Dragons

True, but he did discuss the technique and did use it in some of his fights against multiple opponents. I’m not saying that he was always dual wielding, but he did advocate it at a time when it was not common to do so. He spent most of his early life wandering and perfecting his method against people who claimed to be masters of their technique to try improve and develop his own style. The dual wielding technique was what he wrote about. His last fight was a single wooden sword against an opponent wielding a longer style of sword. I mean its all on the wiki... I use the 'underhand' technique quite effectively, but it does have its drawbacks. For the most part when you reverse the shinai it then only becomes useful as a 'shield'. In Kendo you then can't use it to make a scoring attack, but I would never do that in a competition anyway. The other issue is that the way you strike with the sword means that you can not hold the hilt the way you should and it is open to disarming attacks. I can strike quite effectively with the underhand technique, I am sure that with a real katana, it would cut just as well

Was posted in an Iaido forum I read a while back. She was doing it in the dark so she was not tempted to look at the saya/scabbard. Pretty much went right through and out the other side without doing any major damage to any arteries, kidney etc.

The double bladed lightsaber I would probably equate to the bo staff in modern martial arts. Although the chinese do have a double bladed sword staff. I'll shut up now...

There are a bunch of non sword dual wielding techniques too from stick fighting, tonfa, nunchucks etc... To me it has always made more sense to have both hands used vs one hand just guiding the main weapon. I get more reach with one handed wielding than with two. The second hand on the hilt actually reduces the reach. I've also seen plenty of people open up their hands and almost sever fingers sheathing their weapon. I've heard of one young lady who was practicing drawing and then resheathing her sword in her room in the dark who put the tip through her hip instead of back in the scabbard.

Miyamoto Musashi, mentioned earlier, developed a technique called "Niten'ichi" dedicated to dual sword wielding. Most pictures of him show him wielding the shorter Wakizashi, but his writings do mention dual Katana use. A lot of the history written about him has been fictionalised over time so it is hard to say, but his book "The book of Five Rings" explains that the off hand isn't used for much in combat anyway, you may as well have your second sword out. It's been a long time since I've read it, but it's worth a look. In a lot of cases you are using the main hand for attack and the offhand for defence like a sword and shield of European knights. The other cool thing about the second sword though, in one on one combat, is that you can deflect with one and then use the gap you just made to strike the killing blow. You can do this with one sword, but it's faster and less obvious with two. After you spend a few years practicing with two swords the strength and stamina doesn't become an issue. You get more worn out in practice than you ever would in a short bout. In practice I like to mess with my opponents by reversing the grip of one or both shinai, holding them with the tip to the floor and the hilt up. I don't think lightsabers would weigh as much as a katana though either somehow

During launch the US servers were a 40-50 minute wait. The wait is good. It means your server is healthy. Go make a cup of tea, take a deep breath. Come back, you are in.... The last thing we want right now Is for more servers to be added. And have them quickly deserted. As for the lag, well, that's another kettle of fish that I am sure someone is working on as we read this...

The benefit of dual wielding in Kendo might be a good comparison. Even though it is harder to do, it is much more difficult for a single wielding opponent to defend against your attacks, and your bouts end much quicker, in the end saving you energy you expended using two swords. Opponents sometimes don't know what to do and in a lot of cases and just go limp, suffering decision paralysis, when they face dual wielders in bouts. You can sometimes see you have already won before the first blow is struck. Dual wielders IRL like Miyamoto Musashi often fought more than one opponent at a time. Dual wielding helps with crowd control in a way single sword wielding does not accomplish. It is more difficult for a single swordsman to stand against five others without two blades to maintain a threat zone. Having said that though, the number of times I have hit myself in the back of the head with a shinai or bokken, even after 15 years of Kendo and Iaido, I think the likelihood of me dual wielding a light sabre and surviving more than a year or two, would be slim.

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Indeed. A job well done. Thank you.

Although I hesitate to post it here in the forum of doom, I just had my characters moved to the Asia Pacific servers and it went without a hitch. I lost a couple of character names, and the screen customisations and Legacy options were reset, but everything else went like clockwork. Took about 2 hours all up. I've checked and nothing went astray. I even got the crew skills items they were working on when I got booted from the server. My hat off to the behind the scenes server people who made this happen in such a short time. Cheers Bigears