Dual lightsaber fighting < single blade?

[TwistedTony]

In the game (at least) the marauders do the most damage in comparison to any class and easily do the most damage with lightsabers. While the dual weilding marauder can deal a crap ton of damage, it can't tank. The single weilding jug or double blades assassin only can. So my question is, are dual sabers more powerful, than one blade? With a single blade being better for defense? I ask this question because I don't understand why bioware made marauders be the best dps in the game, with their dual sabers. What's so superior about dual weilding?

[Elementlord]

Two sabers means twice as much damage output if you can not cut your limbs off in the process.

 

I imagine single or double-bladed would be better for defense because they'd have more control?

[drfumblez]

2 blades leaves you constantly on the offensive. you CANNOT defend. If you do, you've lost.

 

a single blade allows for more control, as well as more strength behind your blows, and more defense since you can parry heavier hits.

 

think of a double saber as a Bo Staff. you can simultaneously attack and defend.

 

it's simplistic, yes, but i'm tired.

[Wolfninjajedi]

2 blades leaves you constantly on the offensive. you CANNOT defend. If you do, you've lost.

 

a single blade allows for more control, as well as more strength behind your blows, and more defense since you can parry heavier hits.

 

think of a double saber as a Bo Staff. you can simultaneously attack and defend.

 

it's simplistic, yes, but i'm tired.

 

You CAN defend, just not at length.

[TwistedTony]

If a single blade has more power than why does dual blades do more damage in the game?

[Macetheace]

it's nothing like that.

 

the reason is simply balance not working quite as well, certain classes have abilties that make stacking one or two stats much more effective than othrs. so whiles they theoretically can do the same damage, one can optimise far better than the others.

 

or it could be bioware can't balance their classes, altho imo, they've achieved a much closer balance than blizzard, not surprsing as they have about half the abilities to deal with and half the number of classes too.

 

it's nothing to do with one or two lightsabers. and Guardians/Jugs can do crap tons of damage too

[Path-x]

In "real life" Star Wars dual lightsabres do not do more damage. If you attempt to cut something (an object of some sort) you would produce more power if you held single lightsabre in both hands. Trying to do hit something with dual lightsabre (one in each hand) makes you more clumsy (cannot focus both at one spot), plus single hand swing produces less power.

[physiology]

Although more power can be generated with two hands (think baseball players and golfers), using two sabers can allow for multiple angles of attack, as well as how the saber forms in game (juyo and ataru) focus on aggression instead of defense because of the inability to block attacks with a one handed grip. The combinations of these two factors is why the damage dealt with two sabers is higher in game. Less power behind each hit, but faster hits and harder to block. Trade off being the inability to put up a formidable defense while using two sabers. Hence why maras/sents do a lot of damage but cannot tank (except for their OP defensive cd's in pvp )

 

As for the staff and single blade, they can tank because of the aforementioned point about having two hands on the hilt, therefore being able to generate enough strength to counteract the strength of the attacker's blow

Edited January 9, 2013 by physiology

[TwistedTony]

than what about guys like malgus in the return trailer? he used 2 sabers and overpowered the jedi using one saber and knocked the single blade out of his hand

[AlexDougherty]

Technically, unless you are ambidexterous, dual weilding can not do double damage. Most people are either right or left handed, which means one hand is more capable. Putting a lightsaber in the off-hand can increase the damage you do, but it won't be as fast, coordinated, or as strong (when lightsaber hits lightsaber). Training and practise help, but not as much as you want in a real fight.

 

Also you can defend, the best defense against a lightsaber is another lightsaber, so two of them blocks nearly twice as much, and allows you to defend with one hand and attack with the other, circumstances permitting. Likewise with blaster fire. Having said that the game gives jedi Guardians shields, which theoretically could defend better than a second lightsaber, especially if paired with heavy armour.

[Scutum]

As many have already said, dual sabers requires a pretty heavy offense to overwhelm an opponent. If put on the defensive, the only capable course of action the duelist would have is to try and counter/redirect an attack so as to regain the offensive.

 

A single blade doesn't give as many attack angles, but allows for a more focused/directed offense and/or defense.

 

I personally am surprised that there aren't more Jedi/Sith who use a single blade and a shield (energy or cortosis-laced). It seems like in an era where there are so many duels going on there would be some more radical dueling variants popping up to try and get an advantage.

[TwistedTony]

Yeah but the whole not being able to defend thing doesn't work if a guy weilding two sabers is physically strong enough to block with one hand. Take vader in empire strikes back, Malgus in the hope trailer, and in the return trailer he wielded two sabers and killed that jedi just by battering away his defenses with a two handed grip. The weaknesses of jar'kai can be overcome by developing necessary physical strength to block and deal out powerful blows