what does weapon proficiency do?

[Bearhugger]

especially for one/two handed?
does it increase attack speed or damage?
for polearms? does it raise couch damage?
for crossbow and archery? does it increase the accuracy?
esp for crossbows. they are most accurate already! perhaps it increases the speed with which the aiming reticule (crosshair i mean ) contracts?

lotsa questions ?

 

[jrawlings]

Not sure exactly what the proficiency does in terms of number crunching, but I can tell you that my horse archer character gets far more head shots (harder to do, and give more damage I think) now that my bow proficiency is up to around 150 than he did in the beginning of the game (proficiency was like 60ish)

 

[Gilrain]

I don't know about missile weapons but it doesn't appear (not as yet anyway) that it affects H2H weapons. Although I don't tend to notice the amount of damage a weapon does, I just keep hitting them till they stop moving!!!!

 

[Juno]

Weapon proficiency makes you do more damage and hit more often, and for ranged weapons it also narrows the crosshair

 

[graphia]

^ What Juno said. It also lets you reload crossbows faster.

 

[lancer63]

^ What Juno said. It also lets you reload crossbows faster.

Really!? I haven't noticed that.

 

[Ryuta]

At least proficiency in archery does reduce the size of rectile(?) and makes some near-miss hits. My character has 420 proficiency in archery and her rectile goes mimimal even when on a galloping sprited Coursair.

 

[katank]

@Ryuta, I'm pretty sure all weapons proficiencies are capped at 400.

Anyhow, proficiencies increase damage and speed of attack. Also, for the xbow, around 130-150 or so, the reticule shrinks to a point. For archery, this occurs around 180-200. From then on, any increase in archery proficiency delays expansion in reticule size even if you hold it down for a while.

 

[Ryuta]

No, you can go more. Though you can't increase it using points given when you leveled up, you can still increase it by using the weapon. My character is completely cheat free (I don't know how to do. Only True sight).

I must admit that it's not so much fun when you reached so high. I reached it because I used her as a testbed for my hand-made skins and interfaces so I played her quite a lot.