Maybe 4-6 times and much more battles without sleep
Why spear is good (I mean with spine of the akragaka):
best defence + decent offence. Vault = PK. If you sleep and wake with something else, they will just flee + qua teleportation (I assume they are not newbies and worthy enough charges). Vault leave them no chance.
What else? Sword? Worse melee. You have cleave but its mutually exclusive with sleep, so does not give you much.
Axe - the same.
Mace - crippling strike may be nice, but again, worse melee.
I went for daggers as "secondary weapon" and here is why
...it nicely benefits spear. If you lose your strength, you wield daggers and go for faceslash.
I do not say that spear is the best for all. But for intelligent races (who need decent defence and iceball,iceball,iceball) and for my style of playing it suits fine.
So, just to summarize, I believe that ap with spear and spine edge will outmelee ap with two swords
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/14/2008 08:35AM by dervish.