Blades | Battle System Risen 2 Guide

Last update: 11 May 2016

When fighting with blades, it pays off to use the assigned skills. Powerful Attack is especially useful because it deals twice as much damage. It's used by holding the left mouse button. Using it is risky - it involves a long animation which the player can't abort. The foe can easily strike the Nameless Hero, which often aborts the blow. You have to be very careful.

Another interesting combo, which requires some investing, is a trio: Parry, Riposte, Powerful Riposte. Though it involves a lot of expenses and requires attributes at high levels, it works magnificently. The combination of these three skills can win practically every duel, and also some encounters with multiple enemies. Nonetheless, don't buy only Parry - it doesn't give you any advantage (the right mouse button works much better for blocking enemy attacks). Only combined with Riposte (even the basic one) the skill starts to make some sense. The deadly combination of all three skills can be activated by parrying an enemy attack (left mouse button during a successful block), and then pressing Space.

Unfortunately, the above remarks refer only to fighting humans. You can't block the attacks of animals and monsters, not to mention striking a counter-attack or exercising a more advanced form of sword fighting. You can, though, use Powerful Attack - which is fairly worth the effort, especially at the beginning of the game (the beast will usually become a little stupefied). Usually what works best is just a quick swinging of the blade - it's the only way the stop the rain of blows that will come in the Nameless Hero's direction.

No matter how you play, with blades it's always a good idea to invest in Toughness and the skills that can be learned from Bones. They increase the amount of the hero's health points, and even regenerate them. It's particularly important during longer battles, when healing is an issue. It's also good to use dirty tricks then (see: Dirty Tricks).