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Hi

Some time ago i asked why not make a Dual Duty section. Now i ask what is needed. I made a list of all of them (done A to O: 23/feb; P to Z 24/feb). I think it would be just fine aside the "All | Multiple Use | One Use".

It has 4 sections.

The first one has all that i find without doubt dual duties and available to the general Neopian public.
The second one.. i have some doubts about his "dual dutieness".

The third one. They are Not Available to the general Neopian public.

And the last one. Well I'm puzzled and didn't decide add them or not.

I hope this helps. Or at least don't make a disaster.

How about we have it so we can have separate min and max boxes below the offensive and defensive icons in advanced search? This will allow us to specify things like min 7 attack icons and min 3 defensive icons in one search... the current way does now distinguish so it ends up giving bad proportions or not giving anything at all. Plus this would allow searching for dual duty without specifying specific icon types.

Also... being able to specify a min price would be nice cuz many "0 NP" items are often actually well beyond the max price asked.

Good idea!

Resently, I have been to searching for dual-duties and there is no real way to do it efficiently within IDB. I have found a good number of them but I would love to see the real list...

this topic may be collecting dust but i shall not let it die in vain! I'd like to add my vote for a dual duty section to be added to the multi-use, one-use, semi-fragile etc etc categories... =D

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nice work buddy. Perhaps you could separate them into species and non-species items? Maybe having a list of dual duty weapons which are recommended for BD would be good too. =D i'd love to help but i'm very rusty on my weapon knowledge having just returned from retirement. =D

Mike: Both old dual duty topics merged...

As to what a dual duty weapon is, I think it is quite obvious since it is in the name, a weapon that fulfills two duties in example defend and attack like the mask of coltzan, as obvious example

A weapon like the Bracelet of kings is not a dual duty weapon since it never fulfills two duties, it either heals, defends or attacks as for the possible duat duties like the motes, I don't think they should be added since they aren't always a dual duty, if you get what I'm saying. Nice work really

what's the best dual duties combo?

kittenz Wrote:what's the best dual duties combo?

That would be an option aswell, that people don't have to go through all the relatively useless dual duties, but just get redirected to the better ones, then again what is good, and what is bad

Why not include island lei? purely because of it's rarity? And if ya need petitioners I'll sign up to get a dd section up

Such a nice thing that some people looked at this thread.

If you see is a little bit old the research. That can explain 2 things: Some missing weapons (like golden compass) and on those days i knew less of the battledome-

I'll see if i can get the time to update the research and apply some of your suggestions

Yes this is really a great idea I'll try to do anything to get this going

I have recently had some people in my guild, and relative newcomers to the BDC ask me for a list of Dual Duties, or ask why IDB does not have such a list.

Might it not be simpler to call them Multiple Duty? (Novachoek is correct in his distinction)

I'm not sure which would be more work;
- add a page with Multiple Duty weapons listed like the Top Weapons page
- have a new icon added to weapons which would indicate their dual/multiple functions and refine the advanced search mechanism to recognize the dual/multiple tag to produce weapons in that sub-class

I'm interested in this idea and offer my assistance to the endeavour.