This means enemies go down very fast for a kensai, halving the chance to swing at you. Thac0 also helps, as it turns out, half the time other characters hit the air. And we didn't even mention the Shield Amulet and its many charges. And these potions last for a very long time, so you won't run out before you get the chance to re-supply. Potion of Defense does the same without any drawback. With the incrised thac0 Potion of Stone Form is like specialy designed for this kit. Then there are consumables, and those are a plenty. Its kit comes with an inherent -2 AC, what equals with leather armor, but without any weaknesses, making it in many cases equal to more stronger armours. To be honest, Kensai is not without any protection though. That's a good buffer, and at worst you'll visit a medic more frequently. So unless you let yourself overwhelmed, you won't notice a difference to other classes. But not as much as you'd think.įirst, most enemy, especialy at the start, don't have enough thac0 to hit you with anything but a natural 20. And with (Greater) Whirlwind, you'll do 10 swinges per round either way. This constitutes twohanded Kensai even, especialy as twohanded style lowers the weaponspeed even more, and rises the critical chance even further. +1 thac0 and dmg every 3 levels for the kitīut what does this mean? It means at level 30, Kensai will have +10 thac0 and +10 dmg per hit just from its kit,and at lvl 40 -10 speed from any weapon! That's insane, so much you likely can do the whole saga relying only on daggers!Īnd the speed factor makes any weapon very-very fast. Neither dual-option realy makes you a real kensai. The other useful thing here is some melee power for those instances you can't just abuse traps. It's not actualy that amazing, more on this later.
Thief's benefit is, that Kensai can wear armor/helmet/bracers. If they'd loose the chance to Robe of Vecna, I bet this option would be way less popular, because then the spellcasting would be slow. Mage duals can, for some reason, wear robes (coding oversight?).
Most people dualclass the kit into thief (for Use Any Item), or mage (so it's a mage with melee benefit).
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