Talk:Dulled Weapon

skill change?

idk how hard thisd be to do, but imo make this an offensive weapon spell? or at least remove their current weapon spell? because technically you cant be under the subject of 2 weapon spells. and i know this isnt technically a weapong spell, but in essense it is. could be overpowered, because you'd have to cast another weapon spell to remove it... thoughts? Twiggie 15:27, 31 March 2008 (UTC)

Adds another dynamic to the game's engine, but it'd lack way too little support for such a thing. If they did that, they'd have to implement lots of other 'weapon spell' hexes and ways in which negative 'weapon spell' hexes could be removed (because there's no way they'd add it if the only way to remove it were to have another weapon spell replace it). --Eyekwah 16:18, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

How about something like: "Target foe and all nearby foes cannot critical and deal -10 damage with attacks"? --Eyekwah 09:20, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

Heading towards elite w/that one ^ litttlebeck 04:07, 7 February 2009 (UTC)

Still I would not take it. You can only carry 8 skills for that there's Shadow Weapon. But hell...thats better function then what it is now.--ShadowFog 04:13, 16 February 2009 (UTC)

Imo

10 1 15 "Hex Spell. (1...5...6 seconds.) Target foe cannot be the target of weapon spells. No effect if target foe is under the effects of a Weapon Spell.

I think this would be more useful than it is now and provide a psuedo-counter to weapon spells. -- euphoracle | talk 21:53, 31 May 2009 (UTC)

Question

First, I removed the note saying it's good against daggers since they deal small damage packets. Anyone who thinks that does not play an assassin or doesn't know how to. Assassins aren't meant to auto attack, they run around and spike with huge damage packets. auto attacking just makes you bait for empathy, clumsines, ineptitude, insidious parasite, blind bots etc. etc. However it's still good for energy denial against them, left that in. Question is, does this reduce spell/AoE damage aswell? The description makes me think so but the skill name makes me think attacks only. Anyone know? 114.77.98.223 05:38, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

An Assassin's strength is the compression of several damage packets, primarily achieved with a short chain including two dual attacks. The packets themselves are not that large, excepting Blades of Steel. That being said, no, Dulled Weapon doesn't appear to affect anything other than attacks. Tested on Master of Lightning. MA Anathe 06:17, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

Reduces ALL damage?

Does this reduce all damage or just attack damage? --Combatter 19:03, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Sorry, just read the discussion above. Adding a note to the page --Combatter 19:30, 17 November 2011 (UTC)

Hero Usage

Gave this skill to my Xandra while doing some FoW where there are plenty of melee mobs. She didn't use it once during my playthrough. Anyone else notice their hero's not using this skill? 68.198.97.123 15:05, 30 April 2019 (UTC)

"Bug"

This seems like a vaguely phrased skill description, not a bug. --DANDY ^_^ -- 18:41, 14 May 2020 (UTC)

I do agree that the skill description is vague, and I would further state that the likely intended behavior of this skill is to only reduce damage from attacks. A few things point in this direction. 1. The skill title is Dulled Weapon, implying an effect on only weapons, and hence, attacks. 2. The initial part of the skill description states that the target[s] can no longer achieve critical hits, which also applies to only attacks. 3. Before Dulled Weapon was adjusted in the February of 2010 game update, it used to solely remove from the enemy their ability to critical hit. As critical hits are restricted to physical attacks, there was no need to specify in the skill description that this effect applied only to attacks. It is plausible that when the addition of damage reduction was added to the skill, the development team at the time had simply overlooked the need to now distinguish that damage reduction as applying only to attacks.

I will go ahead and change the bug to an anomaly, as the current behavior and description of Dulled Weapon seems to be more befitting an anomaly. Soldier198 (talk) 23:44, 18 October 2020 (UTC)