Does anyone know how skills will work for the DH if they use melee weapons? For example, can you use arrow skills like Impale while wielding a sword (I suspect not but I want clarification preferably from someone in beta).
As a follow up, does anyone know what happens if you are using a melee weapon and use a skill that indirectly uses arrows. For example, what happens if you are wielding a sword and use vault runed with an obsidian rune (cover fire)?
Then as another follow up, is it possible to dual wield 1-h sword and 1-h crossbow?
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Does anyone know how skills will work for the DH if they use melee weapons? For example, can you use arrow skills like Impale while wielding a sword (I suspect not but I want clarification preferably from someone in beta).
As a follow up, does anyone know what happens if you are using a melee weapon and use a skill that indirectly uses arrows. For example, what happens if you are wielding a sword and use vault runed with an obsidian rune (cover fire)?
Then as another follow up, is it possible to dual wield 1-h sword and 1-h crossbow?
No, you can't use ranged skills with a melee weapon, at least none of the builds I have seen permit that. You also can't use melee skills with a ranged weapon, so there you go.
You can't use a ranged skill with a melee weapon, it just won't work, the skill will most likely be grayed out.
Ummm...As to that last question, I suppose you probably could wield a sword and crossbow, but I'm extremely unsure why you would want to do that. That would be the worst of both worlds, giving you useless melee ability and seriously damaging your ranged damage.
thanks for the reply
Im not sure I made question 2 clear. Your not using a ranged skill rather you are vaulting and but the runed secondary effects ALSO allow you to shoot arrows automatically while vaulting.
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Blizzard used to care about releasing Diablo III, then they all took an arrow in the knee...
As a follow up, does anyone know what happens if you are using a melee weapon and use a skill that indirectly uses arrows. For example, what happens if you are wielding a sword and use vault runed with an obsidian rune (cover fire)?
Then as another follow up, is it possible to dual wield 1-h sword and 1-h crossbow?
No, you can't use ranged skills with a melee weapon, at least none of the builds I have seen permit that. You also can't use melee skills with a ranged weapon, so there you go.
You can't use a ranged skill with a melee weapon, it just won't work, the skill will most likely be grayed out.
Ummm...As to that last question, I suppose you probably could wield a sword and crossbow, but I'm extremely unsure why you would want to do that. That would be the worst of both worlds, giving you useless melee ability and seriously damaging your ranged damage.
Im not sure I made question 2 clear. Your not using a ranged skill rather you are vaulting and but the runed secondary effects ALSO allow you to shoot arrows automatically while vaulting.