Weapon Proficiencies

[fezmonkey]

I have a few questions about weapon skills.

What weapon skill does attacking with a torch use?

Is there not a skill for spears?

Does the unarmed skill only work when nothing is in the hand or are there certain special unarmed weapons at some point?

Not a skills question, but does a weapon held in the left-hand do less damage?

[illbzo1]

The maces skill.

There is no skill for spears.

You can find a pair of gauntlets that improve your unarmed skill, but no knuckles or anything like that.

Nope.

[fezmonkey]

Cool, thanks.

[Jirodyne]

I'll add in that different weapons are good for different things, depending on what you want the character to do. For example.

At lvl 50:
Axes: gets +20 to damage when they hit an enemy.
Maces: Ignores enemy's armor, so no damage reduced by heavy armor mobs, like Ogres I think, and Guardians.
Swords: Attack 20% faster, and next to daggers are the fastest weapons already, so hit low, compared to Axes and Maces, but also hits very often, something 3-4 times before Axes and Maces can hit a second time.

[Thels]

You can hover over an item, and it will list the skill it's related to. If no skill is listed, it's not related to any skill.