Weapons

Weapons are items that characters can 'wield' to change how they attack enemies. Their use is governed by Weapon Skills, which you choose during character creation.

Usage

When a character attacks, the amount and type of damage depend on the wielded weapon. Unarmed characters use a simplified 'Punch' attack which deals a low amount of bashing damage, dependent on level. Lobstermen, however, use a medium-damage 'Claw' attack, also based on character level.

If a character has any Damroll, a percentage of it, the same as their skill in that weapon type, will then be added to the damage calculations, before armor and resistances/vulnerabilities.

Weapons only function when they are in a character or mobile's "Wield" wear slot. This slot is similar to the "Held" and "Shield" slots, but two-handed weapons don't allow the use of Held or Shield items unless the character is a Giganto.

Weapon-type items can be equipped in other locations, and other types of items can be equipped in the Wield slot, but in neither of these cases will a character's attacks change! Builders must ensure that weapons are built correctly, or they will be useless.

Mobiles

Mobiles can either wield weapons like players, in which case they function identically, or have their damage types and amounts built into their template. Innate weapons cannot have weapon flags, but builders can have mobiles load and unload temporary weapons, even invisible ones, before or during combat, so *you never know*.

Like most skills, a mobile's effective weapon skill is usually 75%, unless flagged as Adept or Inept (+/- 25%). Exotic weapons are treated as if the wielder has 100% skill.

Item Values

• [v0] Weapon Class: The Weapon Skill associated with this weapon's use.
• [v1] Number of Dice: The number of virtual dice used to determine weapon damage.
• [v2] Type of Dice: The size of the virtual dice used to determine weapon damage.
• [v3] Type: Sets the verb the weapon uses for combat messages and, by extension, what type of damage the weapon deals. There is a list of verbs, selectable by the builder, and it is large.
• [v4] Special Type: Also known as Weapon Flags

Weapon Classes

Weapon classes have no attached properties, and only serve to determine which Weapon Skill is used to determine hit chance and percentage of damroll bonus. They are chosen at character creation, with the number determined by the character's chosen class.

• Shortpiercing - Daggers and knives. Snik!
• Shortslashing - Swords and sabres. Vzzt!
• Shortbashing - Maces and hammers. Tonk!
• Longpiercing - Spears and pikes. Thuk!
• Longslashing - Whips and chains. Ching!
• Longbashing - Rods and staves. Whump!
• Projectile - Bows and slingshots. Zing!
• Melee - Gloves and claws. Biff!

Although some skills care what weapon type a character is wielding, weapon types do not have any inherent attributes. The fact that different weapon types tend to have different properties (such as being two-handed or having low weight) is merely collusion by the game's builders.

The Reploid race's Armcannon ability uses its own weapon skill, for the armcannon weapon only.

Weapon Flags

Any number of these flags can be set on any weapon:

• flaming: Deals extra fire damage per attack. May blind targets briefly.
• frost: Deals extra cold damage per attack. May freeze targets briefly.
• vampiric: Deals extra draining damage per attack and restores half that to the attacker. Only works on opponents with blood.
• sharp: has a skill/8% chance to do extra damage up to double.
• vorpal Causes bleeding for two pulses. Can be resisted as the weapon's damage type. Only works on opponents with blood.
• twohands: Fills both hands when equipped. Giganto ignore this flag in the main hand but can't dual-wield twohanded weapons.
• shocking: Deals extra electric damage per attack. May daze targets briefly.
• poison: Weapon tries to apply the poison affect for two pulses.
• leaf: Damages the opponent's mana per attack, and restores that much mana to the attacker.
• holy: Procs extra Holy damage - Does more vs foes of evil alignment, doesn't work vs foes of good alignment
• unholy: Procs extra Negative damage - Does more vs foes of good alignment, doesn't work vs foes of evil alignment
• barotraumatic: Damages the opponent's Movement points per attack. Has a small chance to drain movement completely (AKA Sprain).
• enfeebling: Temporarily lowers the foe's damroll with successive hits.
• empowering: Temporarily raises the attacker's damroll with successive hits.
• featherweight: The weapon's weight is halved for the purposes of whether you can wield it (but not for determining second attacks, etc). Applied by Espers' Ferre Potest spell.
• nervewracking: Does extra mental damage per attack with a chance to confuse for 2 to 4 pulses, depending on weapon level.
• acidic: Deals extra acid damage per attack. May osmose the target briefly.
• disrupting: Causes extra non-elemental damage to mobs with the undead form flag or the Zombify affect.
• earthy: Deals extra earth damage per attack.
• soulblade: Deals extra holy or dark damage depending on the wielder's alignment.
• tracer: Temporarily raises the attacker's hitroll with each attack, even misses.
• measuring: Altered damage output.
• squeaky: Makes noise on critical hits.
• loud: Combat occurs in UPPERCASE.
• mystery: No numerical damage display to player or victim.
• runic: Wielder takes no damage from magic spells -- only absorbs one spell when applied by the runic skill.