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Crappy Weapons

Post by Rary »

Does anyone use the following weapons consistantly?

Maces
Light Hammers
Light Flails
Quarterstaves
Shortbow's
Short Crossbow's
Handaxes
Clubs

Not sure if there is anymore out there.
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Yes to light hammers. It reaches +5 and is blunt (has the fewer items which DR it and it's rarely used making dr'ing it in large groups tricky)

Shortbows are used by halfling sneaks. (They can't use longbows)

Quarterstaves will be used by shifters if anyone ever makes one. (they have great buffs on them but not good enough for normal fighters)
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death bringer uses handaxes, and well rounded clerics like amror csals uses maces. many halfling sneaks use shortbows, some druids use clubs like Casas Caster one, and ive seen a few light flail users.
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i use quaterstaves with Numerov and shortbows are for halfling sneaks as they said.
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Best weapons for 1H are scimitars, and rapiers. Best 2H would be scythes and great swords. Doesn't matter what other weapon you try to use and have some class ability or such.. you apply it to those 4 and it overshadows everything else.

IMO Rapiers and scimitars should of been exotic required, like their kukri counterpart.
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meh, if you lowered rapier and scimmy to +2 only even through magic then they'd be less useful. -1-3 ab and damage from other things makes them much less appealing.
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Mmm would have DR problems then, but only for DR classes (mages, barbs). So.. not much of a difference against other classes (AC I guess.. but -1 AB isn't that big o'deal).
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Post by Xianio »

All classes can use 10/+3 ammy's. Would make a difference against a lot of classes that way :)

Oh on that topic of DR...remove that bloody 10/+5 armor. Combined with the 10/- ammy it's such an overpowered combo.
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Rary wrote:Does anyone use the following weapons consistantly?

Maces
Light Hammers
Light Flails
Quarterstaves
Shortbow's
Short Crossbow's
Handaxes
Clubs

Not sure if there is anymore out there.
I use handaxes shortbows and light hammers the most out of those.

Light flails need to get stepped up they are only good for getting rid of traps.

Clubs no one really uses even though some of them are good. Light Xbows no one would use because anyone can use a heavy one even if you are hafling.


Side note the shadow spears don't have positive damage on them.
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Post by AntiChristMofo »

i use light hammers
handaxes
shortbows
maces and clubs sometimes
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Post by Protoss119 »

SOMETIMES I use Maces. Usually it's when I'm too lazy to get Martial Wep. Prof. or just don't have room for it.
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I also have not seen anyone use shurikens, whips, or maces at all. The maces might start to get used now since their finese and pricey DR.
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Post by Musekaze »

i use whips when i 2-hand wiht dark samrai, in stead of the katana. its jsut fun disarm spamming crappy sneakers....


also, i dont think ppl know that whips are avaliable. maybe we should encourage our current playrs to use them more so newcomers will see that whips are avaliable. i was actually thinking aobut making a whip WM...
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Post by Drunken »

Surikens are terrible, they're an exotic throwing weapon with d3 damage and they don't add str bonus to damage like other throwing weapons do. They need a real kick to make them worth using, like d8 positive damage or something.
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Post by Casas »

I agree with Drunk, to a point. They need something, but positive is not the answer. Pos should remain like it is now, only on melee weapons. They could use some damage bonuses though, absolutely true.
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