an assassin katana question.....

The assassin is a great class. some weakness to its healing abilities and the evade from what preview stats were is a joke. but played right is fair.

I wanted to get a katana sense it is a traditional weapon for a assassin.
1 a katana is a traditional 2 light weight handed weapon.

As the only way to use a katana is A/W or A/ME ( IW build ), what are you going to use for your offhand?.... A sheild? LMAO

use an offhand with a mild energy boost and joke of armour buff and a req you can't meet?

go caster and not use any skills but spells?

An assasin with a sheild. lol its a ninja/warrior. or armourless samuri with warriors heart.
Why not make katana's a 2 handed weapon 80% of daggers dmg ( 11-27 dmg ) and leave it as a sword/dagger req. after all the eguivalent of a warrior in asia is a samuri ( sheildless tank ).

Would be a smarter decision.

this is not intended as a flame but i believe you have Assassins confused with Ninja's

though the asn is a Ninja, just in general all asn skills are based off of primarily dual wield weapons...

im not going to pretend I know my martial weapons or anything but the traditional katana can be used single or dual wield but typically was not idea for an assassin build because of its size there is a shorter version of the katana that was more so used for dual wielding as well as tanto's and such...

and i do agree with you on the making 2hd assin weapons... where are the nunchas(sp?) trifold ones to as well as the chains and of corse bo staves...

they could have been tied more directly to the different assasin abbilitis making dager mastery more like expertise or strength...

offhand attacks with 2hd weapons could be kicks and throws... where are those anyhow... i see palm attacks and such but no throws.... the assassin should definately have more poison and knockdown attacks for sure...

sharpen blades could have an equal... Poison Blades

offhand attacks again could be a combination of throws(knockdowns)

making assassins a but more effective and allowing more diversity in the skill structure...

imo assassins still need a bit of work... their armor is that of a distance fighter yet they require close combat for most of thier moves....

i kinda wish their were more shadow skills that allowed for in and out attacking making them more of a distance fighter...

attacks that are activated froma rangers distance that shadow step in and shadow step back...

the calss should ahve been more designed for distance melee attacks

Because the game is not designed to support a 2-handed sword. Besides, 80% of a daggers dmg would be 8-13ish, not 11-27

.......Now that you mention it, a Katana + Wakizashi skin would be pretty sweet.

Definitely not the right look but are Shiro's Daggers the same length?

yep, same length for each

if your going to make certain swords two handed, they should have hammer damage, not swords, since you cant then carry an added offhand

would almost have to be hammer class, or a hybrid of hammer and swords skills... but the damage would have to be on par with other two handed weapons.. or the build wouldnt make alot of sense under the current game mechanics

so your saying that a two handed katana would be swung as slow as a hammer?

i understand what your trying to say, however thats why he said it would only deal 80%, im sure he meant 80% of a hammer's damage... i would hope

we are talking graphic vs mechanic here

it is completely feasable to have a sword graphic for 2hd wield... aka sword skin for hammer

and for that weapon type to mechanically work like a 1hd weapon aka xx-22 or 28 dmg

hell it doesn't even need to be a 2hd graphic it could be a 2hd weapon req with a 1hd weapon graphic...

sorry if i wasn't clear.. 2 daggers 7-17dmg each multiply by 2 and take 80% of that number thus the dmg amount. equild dmg to the daggers fast as a sword and less dmg then a hammer. thats balance.

and still if a assassin can only use a sword as A/W what is he to carry in the offhand.lol

are we going to get shadow idols? LMAO

i wouldn't agree on hammer speed but equil to sword speed. the dmg is reduced due to a 2hand weapon, and is light weight. I'd keep at 1.33

I think one advantage Anet could implement with using a katana with no offhand/shield would be an attack speed and energy buff of some sort... 15-22 but with a default 33% attack speed boost and +5 energy or maybe even +1 pip of energy regen.... I'd be happy with that ^.^

Anet could also implement a different action sequence when attacking with a Katana or Shinobi blade: sorta like in this vid ;p

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uAmLleTf0Y
(this vid was taken at the Ninja Museum in Iga Ueno - enjoy ^.^)

On another note, the Katana wouldn't really be considered as the traditional weapon of choice for assassins, as it is more-so the main weapon for Samurai. (Though it does look super cool ;p) Assassins/Ninja would most likely tend to use something a bit smaller, like daggers, shuriken, kunai, and maybe even the supposedly ficticious Shinobigatana/Ninjato short sword... This preference to small weapons is due to the environment that they do their job in; areas such as inside houses and other confined spaces.... Smaller weapons also provide Assassins/Ninja with greater mobility... Short swords worn on the back, daggers/shuriken/kunai kept on waists/hidden pockets, etc... The less protrusions, the better.