Hey, you there. Don't mess around with Aelya's pride. The Dark Empire solely belongs to the queen.

This had to happen.

Oooh, I see Hel's treating you well, Baldur!

By the way, you know Ragnarok's this year?!
That means everyone dies and you finally raise from dead! (yay)

"Early Modern English", actually.

I'm not sure where you get your exhaustive and precise knowledge of weaponry, but its hardly a subject for such narcissistic drama.

Which part are you asking about exactly? Purpose of Xiphos may be taken from The Spartans (not 300, of course), rejection of the idea that you can effectively use a dagger against a shielded opponent may be taken from observation of actual duels, rejection of the idea that you can out-manouver an opponent wearing plate armour may be taken from wearing that thing or seeing experienced infantry in action - unlike what this thread appears to claim, they're damn fast.

Bottom line is, plated warrior is greater challenge for a dagger than un-plated one. Slow plate is a myth, and yes, that's a well known fact. If the dagger wasn't treated as a super-effective weapon before plate, then it couldn't be considered as one in the plate era. A dagger would be used only if you lost your other weapons or if your other weapons proved ineffective. That's where your quotes come in. None of this actually proves superiority of dagger over plate armour.
Tuck was about as effective against plate as longsword was against mail. And I doubt anyone in his right mind will claim that dagger was as effective battlefield weapon as tuck.

@Tessra: I believe there's a legend of a samurai that used thrown knife against master of Kusarigama (very effective against swords) to weaken his opponent and used his sword only after wounded, the guy couldn't use Kusarigama anymore. So distance isn't really their disadvantage as they used a big variety of weapons, including longbows and shortbows.

And yes, I only talk about open combat. Dagger can be hidden more easily so it's better for surprise attacks. Also no one in his right mind would use a long weapon indoors or any place with little space - that's why I said daggers were used for out-of-battle defense. But in such scenario daggers were superior to most any type of equipment and it's not about out-manouvering just plate.

@khoridor: agreed.

Dagger as a feared weapon..? Guys, do you all come from 1960s South Bronx or something? Where do you even take your theories from?
Daggers were never considered to be decent battlefield weapons.

I do realise that you probably can think of countless ways in which a guy with a pointy stick can overwhelm a fully clad axeman, but imagine... for a second just imagine this: not everyone is a freaking ninja...

I bet the Explorers knew of this place before devs even created it.
I also bet that they currently know several escape methods from this so called trap, including one that automatically transfers you onto a Halo 2 battlefield.

And you all need to feed the royalty, because you're actually what we eat. *evil laughter*

I thought you feed the royalty with cake?

As to the promo, did Aelya change from Brimstone to Sulphur?
Overall all basic info in place, neat, blah blah. It's okay.

And also people speak far more nicer to girls than to guys... dunno why.

I believe that the key to solving this mistery is the fact that unlike what we like to believe, our social structures are still very primitive.

These things are too complicated to write out in a single post, so long story short:

Guys with low self-esteem tend to insult (especially on the internets, where they're safe) other guys in a desperate attempt to climb the social ladder (they fail obviously, otherwise they wouldn't be all the way down).
Those same guys with low self-esteem go out of their way to be nice to girls, because they desperately want to be liked, but fail to achieve this via their personality alone. Sucking-up seems like the only way to go for them.