You start out using a Hammer, and your skill is pretty good with it. Later you find a decent sword and start using that instead, and now your sword skill is about even with your Hammer skill.

You have commissioned a guildee to craft you a really nice sword. You gave him the gold to buy the items for it, and he's working on it. Your sword will be ready, he says, in a couple of days, right after he finishes a couple of other orders.

You go out into the wilderness, and you fight a Mob that drops a Hammer. This Hammer does a few more hit points of damage than the sword you are currently using, but not as much damage as the  sword  your  friend is crafting for you.

On the way back to town, will you use your Sword, or this new Hammer you just found?

the fireball

This is so interesting. Will think about it a bit more before taking a decision.

Originally posted by timmyjames

the fireball

You may replace either the Hammer or the Sword with the Fireball Spell skill, and the question is the same, just different skills.

You find a fireball spell... etc.

Originally posted by Ihmotepp

You start out using a Hammer, and your skill is pretty good with it. Later you find a decent sword and start using that instead, and now your sword skill is about even with your Hammer skill.

You have commissioned a guildee to craft you a really nice sword. You gave him the gold to buy the items for it, and he's working on it. Your sword will be ready, he says, in a couple of days, right after he finishes a couple of other orders.

You go out into the wilderness, and you fight a Mob that drops a Hammer. This Hammer does a few more hit points of damage than the sword you are currently using, but not as much damage as the  sword  your  friend is crafting for you.

On the way back to town, will you use your Sword, or this new Hammer you just found?

 

This is too much pressure, l would just delete my character and give away my computer...

Originally posted by Tenebroso

Originally posted by Ihmotepp

You start out using a Hammer, and your skill is pretty good with it. Later you find a decent sword and start using that instead, and now your sword skill is about even with your Hammer skill.

You have commissioned a guildee to craft you a really nice sword. You gave him the gold to buy the items for it, and he's working on it. Your sword will be ready, he says, in a couple of days, right after he finishes a couple of other orders.

You go out into the wilderness, and you fight a Mob that drops a Hammer. This Hammer does a few more hit points of damage than the sword you are currently using, but not as much damage as the  sword  your  friend is crafting for you.

On the way back to town, will you use your Sword, or this new Hammer you just found?

 

This is too much pressure, l would just delete my character and give away my computer...

Can I have your stuff?

Where is the option "I'm afraid of being PK'd, so I will put the Hammer in storage, along with the new Sword when I get it, until I have two level 99 characters I can use to whack anyone who dares attack my alt?"

Originally posted by Kien

Where is the option "I'm afraid of being PK'd, so I will put the Hammer in storage, along with the new Sword when I get it, until I have two level 99 characters I can use to whack anyone who dares attack my alt?"

You are out in the wilderness, and there is no storage nearby. You have to travel back to town to get to the storage facility.

You went into the wilderness unarmed, and beat up some bandits with your bare hands, because you are such a badass. You found a sword, and a hammer when you looted them. You have the skills to use both, as mentioned in the original post.

You can put the Sword and the Hammer in storage when you get there, but you have to get there first.

Which will you use on the way to town, the Sword or the Hammer (both do more damage than your bare knuckles)?

Where is the choice to use both, If My sword skill is just a bit lower than Hammer right now I will use the Hammer,  when my Sword is ready I'll use it,  there is no need to choose.

Originally posted by beauxaj

Where is the choice to use both, If My sword skill is just a bit lower than Hammer right now I will use the Hammer,  when my Sword is ready I'll use it,  there is no need to choose.

If you are using the Hammer right now, you just made the choice.

Which one will you use to kill the very next Mob that attacks you? You can't say there is no choice, unless you are just going to stand there and die.

In this scenario, you don't have the ability to dual wield, holding the sword in one hand, and the hammer in the other.

That may be a skill in the game, but in this case you don't have that skill yet.

This is like, a dumbed down version of Dungeons and Dragons...

Personally, I'd use the hammer, and smash the creator of this topic.

this is stupid, of course you will stick sword. Your friend is making a sword better than the hammer you found.

duh.

edit : woop 3 stars :D

Originally posted by Kien

Where is the option "I'm afraid of being PK'd, so I will put the Hammer in storage, along with the new Sword when I get it, until I have two level 99 characters I can use to whack anyone who dares attack my alt?"

DF has no levels, you must be playing WOW

Originally posted by Cadexn

this is stupid, of course you will stick sword. Your friend is making a sword better than the hammer you found.

duh.

 

edit : woop 3 stars :D

So you're going to deliberately choose to use a weapon that does less damage, just so you can use it to increase your skill?

 TheHowler just said he would smash me, but it would be stupid to use the sword, he'd use the Hammer.

very stupid question, obviously u use the sword, who cares if its weaker, ur skill in the swords will increase and probably surpass the dmg of the hammer within a few skill lvls. and then ull have a sweet sword and a higher skill in it. and swords just look better.

Originally posted by Ihmotepp

Originally posted by Cadexn

this is stupid, of course you will stick sword. Your friend is making a sword better than the hammer you found.

duh.

 

edit : woop 3 stars :D

 

So you're going to deliberately choose to use a weapon that does less damage, just so you can use it to increase your skill?

 TheHowler just said he would smash me, but it would be stupid to use the sword, he'd use the Hammer.

Yes. Think LONG RUN.

Why the hammer of course.

Either I learn the skills quickly, and learning a second skill is easy and quick, or I learn the skills slowly, so there wont be any real change anyways.... either way, i get to use the better weapon, and some hammer skill... because who is to say I wont find a hammer better than the sword being made... and two skills are better than one.

There is no choise, i flip a coin :P

It does not matter. It has already been declared that this game is not item centric meaning that sweet sword waiting for you will likely only be marginally better then either weapon you have right now. The hammer if better probably does minimally more damage then the sword you are using so no real net gain will be achieved. Even if there is an advantage chances are it will be gone off my stinking corpse before I reach a place to store either of the weapons.

Since stats are a non-factor, I would equip the one that looks better and be done with it.

People won't be satisfied with that. as a typical gamer, i know i always want to choose the best no matter how small the advantage is :/

*cough*aoc*cough*