#19 Rebalancing two-handed weapons

[Anonymous]

They are underpowered.For example firebrands are dam
+9 -thats as good as a broadsword which is a one
handed weaponm,but you can't have any shields on,thus
you lose ac and armour . i think the power of every two
handed sword should be set up

[Todd Mitchell]

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This is not a bug, maybe a feature request instead. How
about lowering the power of some single handed weapons or
doing something like adding knockback or stunn effects to
two handed weapons.

[Rick Tanner]

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Broadsword has damage of 9, but is only physical damage. That
means any monster with an Armour score will reduce that
damage.

A Firebrand has damage of 9 as well, but that is fire damage. It
will ignore the target monster's Armour score - meaning 9 points
of damage will dealt unless the monster has fire resistance. A
Firebrand also has cold resistance, a faster weapon speed, and
a magical enchantment which could be viewed as the trade-off
for it being 2 handed.

Under powered - IMO, I don't think so.

Balanced - that is a an almost neverending debate. ;)

[Mark Wedel]

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One thought might be to follow AD&Dv3 example of doing
extra damage based on strength for 2 handed weapons (putting
more strength into it).

But otherwise, I think this is a balance issue, of which
there is no
perfect answer - some weapons will always be better than others.

[tchize]

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i like the idea of adding str damage (but phys one then)
to 2 handed swords. As you can put all your str in
fighting.