BoM question (in General)

I was reading about it, and does the two handed penalty apply to me? I have a bow equipped and I heard that it counts as a two handed weapon. If so, should I equip my MoD to avoid the penalty while still having the bow equipped? The shield is currently at +22, so would it be worth the dex loss for the strength gain as an archer? Is it only in melee rounds or all rounds? So many questions! <3

from the wiki:

"The two types of melee weapons are 1-handed and 2-handed weapons. 2-handed weapons are generally more damaging, but when used with a shield the minion will suffer additional DX penalties. 1-handed weapons do suffer a smaller penalty when used with a shield. As of the Changelog of March/April 2008, the one round penalty no longer applies when switching from a ranged weapon to a 1-handed weapon."

1 or 2 handedness only applies to melee weapons.

"Strength: 537,610
Dexterity: 972,302"

It looks to me like, in terms of net levels, the BoM 2-h penalty would take away as much as it would add. It would be the same as untraining 115k DX and putting it into ST, kinda.

I think the penalty to DX is worth it, probably. Your Hal won't have trouble hitting anyway, and your main archer will only have trouble hitting tanks/high-DX minions. In general, DX is the less important intrinsic stat, since the most it can do is add one hit.

Hmm. I've just checked and triple checked, and I'm suffering no dex penalty in melee for equipping a BoM with a Morg. None at all.

So I do not have to worry about the penalty and I should keep my bow equipped? =P Thanks guys

jw, it should be 12 percent dex penalty, that would be noticeable for sure!

Definitely no penalty, not on my equip page or on my post battle page.

BoM + Bows / Xbows / Sling = no penalty.

Only way to see the DX penalty is to be in combat in melee rounds while using a melee 2 handed weapon.

Thank you Shade -huggies- <3

On the other hand I know the original DX penalties were based on the DX penalty for 1 handed melee weapons.

Since that penalty now is 0%, you also don't have a penalty. There used to be a relationship in between them.

I think I used to have such a reference on cbstuff.nl but forgot where it is located...

There is a penalty for shields + 2h melee weapons.

Most shields give a DX penalty. The penalty is increased by 12% when combined with a 2H weapon. There were two shields that did not give any DX penalty when used with a 1H weapon, and so CB forgot to add 12% to zero to get a 12% penalty for using it with a 2H weapon. I fixed that recently.

Bows are not melee weapons.