Sword Mastery

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Does anyone know, if a Sword/blunt mastery skill increase the patk by using a two handed sword or by using duals? Wich weapon does have more crit rate? Duals or Two handed sword? What do u think should a SwS use to do the most damage? duals ? Two handed sword? or maybe a Bow?
plz help me, i dont know what the skill cause.
It doesnt effect duals, they have their own masteries that only Gladiators and Bladedancers get.
Last I checked, the masteries stacked with 2 handed weapons for destroyers(has been a while though). And as stated, the duals are only affecte by dual masteries.

but I have never played a Sws, so this is just a theory.

AS far as a Sws weapon. I say sword and shield, and a bow. Use the bow for ranged and the sword and shield for melee. With your crit rate and dex the shield will add extra pdef and damage reduction. And you should attack fast enough with the sword to not have too many problems(haste SA ftw in this case).
I want to do damage later so i need duals or two handed sword and not a sword and a shield. i will increase my strength and dex by increaisng con later. Many player had different meanings. One guy said the sword mastery will increase two handedn and not duals and another said that he increase duals and two handedn and other that the skill doesnt increase any of these.
Ok, let me explain.

Sword/Blunt Mastery that tank classes get does the following.

Increases P.Atk when using ONE handed swords.
Increases P.Atk when using TWO handed swords.
Increases P.Atk when using BLUNTS.

It does NOT:

Increase P.Atk when using DUAL swords.
ok thx, but why are so many sws using duals? a player said me that sws makes more crit hit by using duals and not by two handed swords is that right that the crit rate will be increased by using duals?
they are probably using sls*tsu because the SA on those duals is focus, crit rate on sword/two handed sword/duals should all be the same (SA on your weapon can change your crit rate)
People think duals do more damage than 2 handed swords, but they dont. Duals are cheaper though. Duals also have the advantage of hitting twice as often as a normal or 2 handed sword, meaning they have increased chances of disrupting a mages spell (not that its ever gonna make much difference anyway).

Top damage for a SwS would be with a 2 handed sword since they have masteries for them.

EDIT: I forgot to mention until C5 there is no top B grade 2-handed sword though, so that may mean that at B grade the top duals do more damage.