Why are arcanists left handed?

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Originally Posted by Alestorm

So Eos has been evil the whole time! I knew it, but no one believed me.

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Indeed she has been. You saw what fate ultimately befell her previous "master". Hope green is your favorite color.

Irl I am right handed. Very right handed. My left hand sucks at doing things...

Except pool/billiards. I, apparently play that left handed. I had no clue, I just picked up the pool cue and started playing that way. After a while someone asked why I played lefty when I was right handed. I watched other people play, and sure enough I was playing opposite the handedness of everyone else. So I tried "fixing" it. Boy, did that mess up my game.

Maybe they have my pool quirk on those jobs?

Most people are neither left nor right handed, actually. Most people are right-dominant or left-dominant. That means that we are right-handed or left-handed in most situations, but the reverse is true under certain number of cases.

For example, I turn the light bulb with my left hand if possible, but use screwdrivers and wrenches with my right hand if possible.

It's just that the characters we have end up with their hands dominance being different among the different weapons.

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Originally Posted by Penthea

It's because the book is considered a weapon, so like any other weapon it's held in the right hand.

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I was thinking that the astro weapon is in the left hand, but then I remembered that the auto attack is done with the right hand with a card. So the card is the weapon?

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Originally Posted by kikix12

Most people are neither left nor right handed, actually. Most people are right-dominant or left-dominant. That means that we are right-handed or left-handed in most situations, but the reverse is true under certain number of cases.

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As for hand dominance, my left hand is stronger, but my right hand is more precise, so I swap between them based on what I need.

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Originally Posted by Brightamethyst

Bows and spears are held in the left hand

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Bows have nothing to do with your dominant hand. They way you handle them is based on your dominant eye, and those two are unrelated.

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Originally Posted by Sylvina

As a left handed person I support left handed animations. also the beloved Legend of Zelda series featured left handed link until skyward sword ruined it.

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Twilight Princess gave us a right handed Link first...and mirrored the whole world for that.

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Originally Posted by Reynhart

Twilight Princess gave us a right handed Link first...and mirrored the whole world for that.

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Not if you played the "proper" GameCube version instead of the mirrored Wii version.

Anyway, theoretically he's still left-handed if it's the whole world that's been turned backwards. It's just that "left" isn't where it's supposed to be any more...

I'm ambidextrous in real life, so everything always seemed normal to me, hahaha. But that's an interesting observation!

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Originally Posted by Reynhart

Twilight Princess gave us a right handed Link first...and mirrored the whole world for that.

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Well it's because both Twilight Princess and Skyward Sword both use motion controls, which for whatever reason they figured made more sense as right-handed. The Gamecube version of Twilight Princess isn't mirrored (and neither is the Wii U version, I believe).

....I think we're getting off topic here.

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Originally Posted by Reynhart

Twilight Princess gave us a right handed Link first...and mirrored the whole world for that.

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That added a lot of fun for me! I played the game recently with my boyfriend who had played the game before. The Wii-version. We went for the GameCube one though and when he was giving me directions in dungeons or the like, I always had to double-check if I really had to go left or if he confused the directions again... because I'm personally already challenged with telling left and right apart, we got lost quite often...

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Originally Posted by Reynhart

Bows have nothing to do with your dominant hand. They way you handle them is based on your dominant eye, and those two are unrelated.

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I'm left eye dominant and right-handed. I hold a bow with my left hand and draw the bow with my right. I can't shoot left handed, tried and failed lol. Maybe I'm a mutant.