Weapons

Original Sources: AA for dummies and Cosm's Happy Fun Time Yay Super Duper Anguish Site

Note: If weapon has a link, that means it is unique, has other special characteristics, or may be confused with similarly-named weapons. Click on it for more info. Difficulty ranges of artificer-forged weapons are available on a separate page.

The various types of weapons have pages with more details and lists.

Axe - Club - Curved blade - Exotic - Flail - Knife

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(T) = Throwable

Skill Range	Difficulty	Skill Range	Difficulty
0-5	Grandma	30-35	Moderate Skill
5-10	Ex. Easy	35-45	Difficult
10-15	Very Easy	45-55	Mod. Difficult
15-20	Easy	55-65	V. Difficult
20-30	Some Skill	65-85	Ex. Difficult
85-100	Ex. Skilled

General Advice

    Spoo says: i have never agreed with aa for dummies skill recommends 
    Spoo says: i think its too aggressive 
    Spoo says: puts ppl in too diff weps too soon 
    Spoo says: an awesome addition to a wiki would be the str to wield each weapon 
    Spoo says: then let em put a multiple on it, 4 or 5 or 6 prolly, dependiong 
               on weapons weight and any specials it has 
    Spoo says: 5 average tho, 5 x str to wield 
    Spoo says: rule o thhumb for skill to use 
    Spoo says: you gotta learn to fudge it based on weights a little 
    Spoo says: and just use stuff and count the miss:hits 
    Spoo says: if you not hitting 2 out of 3, you need something else fast 

So, as to sum it up, evals below are rough progressions that may or may not be 100% accurate for your skill. Rely on strength to wield more when the number is available, about 5xStrength to wield = proper skill or thereabouts. Heavier weapons will be less accurate, and you should be aiming for 66% accuracy or so.

Strength to Wield

Strength-to-wield testing is ongoing; many preliminary results are available in the weapons tables, with the following notation.

n	Testing has determined that n is the minimum strength needed to wield this weapon in your main hand.
<n	The weapon can be wielded with n strength and might be wieldable at lower strengths, but we have not yet tested them.
>n	The weapon cannot be wielded with n strength, and we have not yet tested higher strengths.
n<x	The weapon cannot be wielded with n strength, can be wielded with x strength, and we have not yet tested the values in between. (e.g., 4<8)

Axe

Attack Type: Chop, Pierce for picks and stalactites
Fast for: Ranger	Viable for: Paladin, Shapeshifter
Uniques: None

• Pros: Common, usually lightweight, chop is good due to few armors protecting against it.
• Cons: No uniques, limited high end choices
• High End Choices: Choppingweapon and Stalactite are both good hard hitters, but stalactite is pretty heavy (8) so you will have to expect more misses with it. Butterfly wing axe hits pretty good as well.
• Two Weapon Choices: Butterfly wing axe gets bonus hits and hooked axe makes it easier to get offhands hits so they work well together. Wield the hooked axe in your main hand and when you fight things that have weapons or shields you'll see "You hook your opponent's weapon/shield with your axe, pull it aside and land a blow with your off-hand!" Dwarven mining picks just dual well in general, but nothing special.

Everything you want to know about axes can be found here..

Club

Attack Type: Crush
Fast for: Cleric, Artificer, Shapeshifter	Viable for:Paladin, Ranger
Uniques: Krakadoom, Stone Smasher Maul, Onyx, Destructor, Hammer of Gralain, the Big Un

• Pros: Common, big damage
• Cons: Heavy, bad parry
• High End Options: The heavily jewel encrusted mace(hjem) is very popular, but inferior to the other high clubs. Krakadoom(kraky) is still probably the most damaging weapon in the game. A word of warning about the Stone Smasher Maul(ssm) – when you first wield it, it’ll look great - +1 strength and giving you bone crushing messages all the time: unfortunately, those messages aren’t real bonecrushes and only do about 8 damage. The Destructor is only really good for dwarves. Huge warhammer(non-unique of kraky) not too shabby either.
• Two Weapon Options: Well-balanced battlehammers and thats about it. Good use for anyone, but Dwarves get uber bonuses with them.

Everything you want to know about clubs can be found here..

Curved Blade

Attack Type: Slash
Fast for: Rogues, Paladins, Rangers	Viable for: Artificers
Uniques: Blade of Sethic, Eagle Talon, Flamberge, the flame sword

• Pros: Decent mix of damage, parry and lightness
• Cons: Somewhat uncommon, a bit lower on damage scale.
• High End Choices: The katana has pretty nice parry, and the orcish sabre does reasonable damage, but neither are exceptional. Eagle Talon from the eagle clan is possibly the best curved blade in game. Or the Flamberge, if you can get it for your skill. See its page for more info. Blade of Sethic possibly good because 2handed, but can't say. See its page.
• Two Weapon Choices: Orcish Sabre has been often used, assassins blade and hasashiyyini blade from hasashiyyini both give bonuses to two weapon, the sharpened keen steel scimitars from shieldhand dual decently and give +20 riposte.

Everything you want to know about curved blades can be found here..

Exotic

Attack Type: Differs. Elemental orbs good with everything.
Fast for: No One	Viable for: Ranger or Paladin
Uniques: None

• Pros: Not much, though the top exotics are very good
• Cons: Very rare, very slow for most classes
• High End Choices: Elemental orbs were the only choice for a long time, they do fire or frost damage depending on which you have, and so work very well on armored things. Now there are the thraxi mandibles that are two handed and do good damage, but are heavy. Shears are decent and good dualled
• Two Weapon Choices: They all dual pretty well due to low weight... but only ones worth it are the orbs and shears, shears being more difficult, but actually have specials for offhand.

Everything you want to know about exotic weapons can be found here..

Flail

Attack Type: Crush
Fast for: Cleric, Paladin	Viable for: No one in particular
Uniques/Document Weapons: Morning Star, Flail of Ancient Demolition, the Xenophobe

• Pros: Good damage, very nice high end choices now
• Cons: Heavy, somewhat uncommon
• High End Choices: Morning star gets a very nice bonus when hitting humans, and does reasonable damage anyway. The vicious looking flail is just your average high end non unique. The flail of ancient demolition is a 2hander that has chance of knockdown. Dire flail is a semi unique that has a high skill requirement and level requirement, occasionally causes enemy to freeze up. Two handed mithril flail generic semi unique. The Xenophobe is a document weapon, and like most document weapons, is great.
• Two Weapon Choices: Not a whole lot of good options. Cat o' nine do ok but pretty meh damage, rangermade whips and maybe other whips like the scythe one and lizard one.

Everything you want to know about flails can be found here..

Knife

Attack Type: Pierce, Slash in some occasions
Fast for: Rogue, Ranger, Shapeshifter, Artificer	Viable for: Everyone else
Uniques: Shadowspawn, Gemmed Rondel Dagger

• Pros: Extremely common, light, easy to dual with, raises very quickly
• Cons: Very little damage
• High End Choices: The nailfile is fairly heavy and still so-so, stone daggers are incredibly good against the stone golems, but fairly useless apart from that. Silver knife is actually decent vs undead, but still somewhat crap. The Main Gauche doesn’t do very good damage but it has very nice parry. Best option is a document weapon, kings blade. Shadowspawn gives +2 strength to rogues only, and needs to be fed corpses or it'll take your strength away, and not very good damage anyways.
• Two Weapon Choices: Really all dual well except the nailfile and stone daggers, the assassins daggers from hasashiyyini however are designed for dualling.

Everything you want to know about knives can be found here..

Longsword

Attack Type: Slash
Fast for: Paladin, Ranger	Viable for: Rogue, Cleric
Uniques: Starblade, Bloodred, Pendragon, Evil Blacksword, Diablo, Sword of Virgis

• Pros: Extremely versatile, fairly common, very good balance of parry, weight and damage
• Cons: Can be a bit heavy.
• High End Choices: There is a wealth of choices at the high end. Starblade is very good for a tank, especially a non entity – high parry and +20 to all your resistances, and also a free light source. Exquisite rune swords are very common, do solid damage and parry reasonably well, fine broadswords sacrifice some of this damage for better parrying. Pendragon has a bonus for human wielders and the good aligned, and is only good for those. Outstanding sword is one of the most damaging non-uniques in the game, but comes with mediocre parry and is very heavy. Diablo does nice damage and has very nice parry, but seems to be way slower than usual weapons for raising your skills. The Sword of Virgis isn’t easy to get, does average damage, but does come with a nice +15 Longsword skill.. for females. The pristine thraxi arm from thraxi is pretty good.
• Two Weapon Choices: Theres the hasashiyyini lonswords that give bonuses when dual wielded specifically, Elven longswords from andellen are light and dual ok, silver longswords are also light and good vs undead stuffs. Maybe golden sword from fubs because it is light.

Everything you want to know about longswords can be found here..

Marksmanship

Attack Type: Pierce for Crossbow
Fast for: Ranger, Rogue, Shapeshifter	Viable for: Everyone else but paladins
Uniques: Crossbow, Silver Longbow

• Pros: High damage with archery, crossbows are decent as well.
• Cons: Very heavy to carry around, some NPC’s really dislike having things thrown at them
• High End Choices: Varied, read below

Marksmanship is a bit different than most weapon skills, as there are few "pure" marksmanship weapons that work on their own. Marksmanship also effects archery with bows and thrown weapon to an extent, and are also raised by these.

Everything you want to know about marksmanship can be found here..

Polearm

Attack Type: Slash, Chop for Poleaxe
Fast for: Paladin	Viable for: No one in particular
Uniques: Awesome Scythe, Orcish Poleaxe, Malign Pikestaff

• Pros: Solid damage
• Cons: Rare, very heavy
• High End Choices: Orcish poleaxe is very good damage for a 1hander, the awesome scythe is two handed and your average high end. The best option probably the steel poleaxe from shieldhand, two handed. Theres the pristine insectoid arm from thraxi thats also very good but also very heavy, also two handed.
• Two Weapon Choices: Not a whole lot of options. Sickle from tingi.. maybe the other low skill ones could do ok, but fairly low damage.

Everything you want to know about polearms can be found here..

Rapier

Attack Type: Pierce
Fast for: Rogues	Viable for: Paladin
Uniques: Sword of Gilian, Crystal Blade

• Pros: Very good at disarming and parrying, powerful uniques for tanks, pretty common, fairly light
• Cons: Very low damage
• High End Choices: Crystal Blade gives +2 dex, Sword of Gilian gives +2 con, both unique and good damage and parry. Jeweled dwarven rapier also pretty good damage and parry.
• Two Weapon Choices: Jeweled dwarven rapiers dual well, the sword of gilian and crystal blade do as well.

Everything you want to know about rapiers can be found here..

Shortsword

Attack Type: Pierce or Slash, roughly equivalent
Fast for: Ranger, Paladin, Rogue	Viable for: Cleric
Uniques: Blade of Losoth, Ebonblade

• Pros: Very common, easy to dual with
• Cons: Low damage, not a whole lot of choices
• High End Choices: The wolfblade your average high end, can insert a star caverns gem into it for more damage, ebonblade is ok but nothing great. Best bet is gathering of the spiders, a document weapon. Blade of losoth and mithril shortswords are good for mages.
• Two Weapon Choices: Steel butterfly blades from felgands best bet as they are designed for dualling, serrated shortswords from shieldhand do some good damage specials, the blackened gladius and wakizashi not too horrible.

Everything you want to know about shortswords can be found here..

Spear

Attack Type: Pierce
Fast for: Shapeshifter, Ranger, Paladin	Viable for: No one in particular
Uniques: None

• Pros: Decent damage, great dual
• Cons: Small selection of high ends
• High End Choices: Steel spear from shieldhand probably best choice, two handed. Pristine poisonous insectoid arm from thraxi good as well. Golden trident is pretty good, ancient pike generic high end.
• Two Weapon Choices: Halfspears are about the best two weapon choice in the game, otherwise could use arrows.

Suggested Skill Progression:

• 0-20 Well used hay fork from Nepeth, arrows from various bow people.
• 20-30 Javelin or orcish pike from dalair.
• 30-40 Quaker trident from earthquaker
• 40-60 Marlinespike from lighthouse, diamond spear from monolith.
• 60-100 Ancient pike from anakim, golden trident from amazons.
• 70-100 Steel spear from shieldhand, pristine poisonous insectoid arm from thraxi

Skill Level	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
0-5	A whalebone	1	1	Cyranos House	A whale	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	A crooked arrow			Rangermade	Rangers	Average	Useless	One Handed
	A quill pen	1		Fallan	Lismore, the chief judge	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A rusty pitchfork			Arcadia	Farmer's Daughter	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
	A spear	3	1	Anasazi	Anasazi	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	A clawed stick			Yeti Caves	Yeti Area	Greater than Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A crude spear	2		Rangermade	Rangers	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A flint tipped arrow			Duender	Brannon, a cheerful fletcher	Average	Useless	One Handed
	A nomad's stick	1	1	Nomads Camp	Khastem	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A steel tipped arrow			Duender	Brannon, a cheerful fletcher	Average	Useless	One Handed
	A wooden skewer	1	1	Drakhiya	Drakhiya	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
	A wooden spear	2	1	Sydryth	Assorted tree sprites	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A wooden spear	2		SE Isle	A native warrior	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	A basic spear		3	Drakhiya	Drakhiya	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
	A blunt spear			Rodentid Temple	Rodentid Temple	Average	Fine	One Handed
	An iron spear	3	3	Scythe encampment	Urak, an orc guard	Greater than Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A javelin			Ravel	Goblin General, Gobbo	Average	Fine	One Handed
	A light spear	1	2	Various	An orc scout, An orc raider	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
	A puncheon	1	2	Quarry	A moiler	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A short spear	2	2	Manor	An orc scout	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A standard pike		3	Tantallon Dumps	Gurk	Greater than Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
	A straight arrow	1		Listhalia	Anybody with bows	Average	Useless	One Handed
	A well used hay fork			Nepeth	Redfaced Farmer	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
	A wooden spear	3		SE Isle	A young tribal warrior, An old tribal warrior	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	Antique Spear			Neville	Oterim the Sage	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A besacia	2	5	Quarry	Quarry worker, Quarryhand	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A black spear		6	Greenhaven		Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A javelin	2	4	Dalair	Weapon Seller	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
	A long black spear	2	4	Manspiders	A spider trainer	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A long spear	2	5	Gnoll Temple	An alert guard	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A long spear	2		Rangermade	Rangers	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	An orcish lance	2	5	Various	An orc patrol leader, An orc war chief	Average	Poor	One Handed
	An orcish pike		4<8	Dalair	Orc Sentry	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A red spear		>8	Greenhaven	trollocs	Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
	A short spear	2		Rangermade	Rangers	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A short spear			?	Recruit?	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A wooden spear	2		Ondoran Plains	A centaur hunter	Average	Poor	One Handed
30-35	An assisculus	2	6	Quarry	An aggressive hireling	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A barbed spear	3	7<16	Nepeth	The honour guard of the castle	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A bronze spear		9	Zhamarr	Sleepy Gate Guard	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
	A dark spear		8	Zhamarr	Legionnaire	Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
	A huge metal fork	3	7	Anakim	A hungry anakim	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	The Quaker Trident		6	Star Caves	Earthquaker	Average	Splendid	One Handed
	A spear	3	6	Burnham Woods	Foot Soldier	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A stout spear	3		Rangermade	Rangers	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
35-45	An atlatl		>7	Anasazi	Anasazi	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
	A diamond spear			Monolith	Diamond Monolith	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A great spear			Rangermade	Rangers	Greater than Average	Good	One Handed
	A long pike				Tall Watchman	Average	Adequate	One Handed
	A marlinspike			Lighthouse	Evangeline	Average	Good	One Handed
	Obsidian-tipped Spear			Castle Virgis, SE isle	Native Warrior	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	Pitchfork	2		Paladin Estates	Equina	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A savage halfspear	2	8	Shieldhand Clan	Farur, advisor to Torran	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A serrated spear		>7	Greenhaven	Trolloc Guard	Average	Adequate	One Handed
	A wooden spear	3	7	Zhamarr	A sleepy gate guard	Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
45-55	A barbed spear	3	7<16	Nepeth	The honour guard of the castle	Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
55-65	An ancient pike	4	12	Anakim	Farlofs personal guard	Average	Adequate	One Handed
	A golden trident	5	>12	Castle Virgis, SE isle	Giant Water Elemental	Average	Very Good	Two Handed
	A harpoon	3	9<16	Cyranos House		Average	Very Good	One Handed
	A steel spear		>11	Shieldhand Clan	Old Ulgar	Greater than Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
	A pristine poisonous insectoid arm	6	12	Thraxi hyf	Thraxi	Greater than Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
No eval	An ironwood spear	?	?	Storm Dragons	Feed the babies	?	?	?

Staff

Attack Type: Crush
Fast for: Mage, Cleric, Shapeshifter	Viable for: Everyone else
Uniques : Glimmer, Staff of Azakath, Oaken Staff

• Pros: Common, fairly versatile, lots of special effects
• Cons: Damage somewhat lacking
• High End Choices: For mages still learning spells, Glimmer is the single best item in the game. Azakath and Tetsubo are also good for those mages and necromancers with the skills and strength for them. Iron shod a good generic high end. Staff of Tarran is very good damage and also gives AC. Then there is the chain-staff document, but needs two weapon to use.
• Two Weapon Choices: Chain-staff works on two-weapon some, otherwise black staff from the yeti caves is light and gives +1 to dex.

Suggested Skill Progression:

• 0-15 Crooked staff (2handed) from Belob, Strong branch (1h) from outside Ravel, light staff (1h) from Fredd's shop in Tantallon
• 15-30 Old staff (2h) from Drow mage in Drow Caverns, Quarterstaff (1h) from smiling citizen in Nepeth
• 30-50 Snake Staff (1h) from Drakhyra.
• 40-60 Pine staff (1handed) from Academy (Diam), Elven Quarterstaff (1h) from Elven Defence Forces(Illarin), Staff of Protection (1h) from Iceforge(Hetdus)
• 50-70 White iron stick (1h) from Zernak in Ravel, Iron shod staff (2h) from Jush.
• 60-100 Staff of Azakath from Mount Kresh, Tetsubo from Zhammar, Carved Staff from lizard village.
• 80-100 Staff of Tarran (1h or 2h) from Iceforge(Hetdus), Chain Staff (2h) document weapon
• 0-100 Glimmer from Alton’s Caverns (for mages).

Skill Level	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
0-5	A long stick	1		Gremlin Village	Sappy the Gremlin	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	A crooked staff	3	1	Various	Belob the Gangly Mage	Greater than Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
	An elvish bow	2		Listhalia	Elven Guard	Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
10-15	A blackened staff	1	1	Yeti Caves	Old Mage	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A caribou's antler	2		Yeti Caves	Yeti Area	Average	Fine	One Handed
	A crude staff	2	1	Rangermade	Rangers	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A light staff	1	1	Tantallon	Fredd	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A long pole	1	1	Yeti Caves	Yeti Area	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	Old Staff	3	1	Drow Caverns	Drow Mage	Greater than Average	Poor	Two Handed
	A peculiar black rod	1		Yeti Caves	Old Mage	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A small stick	1		Elven Nature Preserve	Celebrim, an elven child	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A strong branch	1	1	Ravel	Ravel	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	An ancient staff	2		Manspiders	Cephalorien, the Manspider historian	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	Antique Staff	3		Neville	Oterim the Sage	Greater than Average	Adequate	One Handed
	A blonde walkingstick	2	2	Infidian, near Gemynd	A prosperous merchant	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A broom	2		Andeli Castle	Groundskeeper	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A crowbar	3		Convent	Convent	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
	Dark Bow			Various	Carcera	Average	Poor	Two Handed
	A glass blowers pipe	2		Glassblower	Kezziah, the glass blower	Average	Adequate	One Handed
	A great bow	4	<11	Drakhiya	An orcish wall guard	Average	Poor	Two Handed
	A light staff	2		Morin Farm	Irianna the mage	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A long candlestick	2		Manspiders	Manspider Acolyte	Average	Fine	One Handed
	A long staff	3	3	Nepeth	Old Wise Sage	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
	A long staff	2		Rangermade	Rangers	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A long thick cane	1	3	Island Commune	Nico	Average	Adequate	One Handed
	A monkstaff	2		Monastery		Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
	A pool stick		3	Brigand Fortress	Brigand Fortress	Average	Adequate	Two Handed
	A quarterstaff	2	3	Nepeth	Smiling Citizen	Greater than Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A short broom	2		Drakhiya	A serpentari house servant	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A short staff	2		Alataciria	Kiryn, one of the islandfolk	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A short staff	2		Rangermade	Rangers	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A slender stick	2	3	Academy	Surya, a young elf	Average	Good	One Handed
	A small stick	2	2	Nepeth	A poor man	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A straw broom	2	2	Gemynd	Halmarc, the shopkeeper	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A thin staff	2	2	Knights Retreat	Jocelin	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A walking stick	2	2	Gemynd	An old gnome	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A walking stick	2	3	Ironwood Forest	An exploring gnome	Average	Poor	One Handed
	A worn rake	2	2	Nepeth	Found	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
20-30	A big broom	2		Anakim	An anakim maid	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A fine short bow	2	<12	Duender	Brannon, a cheerful fletcher	Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
	A long stick	2	<5	Castle Virgis, SE isle	Young Female Warrior	Average	Fine	One Handed
	A short bow	2	<10	Rangermade	Rangers	Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
	A simple staff	2		Home of Leau and Drais	Leau	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A solid cane	3	5	A mutated garden	Hopkins	Average	Fine	One Handed
	A stout staff	3		Rangermade	Rangers	Average	Adequate	One Handed
	A strong staff	3		Rangermade	Rangers	Average	Fine	One Handed
30-35	A black oak staff	2	6	Gnoll Temple	A gnollish priest, A gnollish priestess	Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
	A black staff	2		Yeti Caves	Old Mage	Average	Fine	One Handed
	An elven quarterstaff		6	Elven Defense Fortress	Illarin	Greater than Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A fine long bow			Duender	Brannon, a cheerful fletcher	Average	Poor	Two Handed
	A gnarled old walking stick	2		Redcliff on Infidian	Arrora the artisan	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A gnarled walking stick	2		Sunbird Tribe Village	A tribal elder	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
	A long bow	2		Rangermade	Rangers	Average	Poor	Two Handed
	A maple staff		6	Gabaldon	Linnhe	Average	Splendid	One Handed
	A pine staff	4		Academy	Diam, the language master	Greater than Average	Very Good	One Handed
	A rowan staff		6	?	?	Average	Good	One Handed
	A rosewood staff		6	Drutes tomb	Tanica	Average	Adequate	One Handed
	A simple staff	2	6	Morr	Alvin, the undead abbot	Average	Fine	One Handed
	A snake staff	3	6	Drakhiya	Drakhiya	Average	Very Good	One Handed
	A sturdy oak staff	4	6	Iceforge Clan Forge	Fiola the acolyte	Greater than Average	Adequate	One Handed
	A twohanded staff	5		Rangermade	Rangers	Greater than Average	Fine	Two Handed
	A vicious staff			Altons Caverns	Student Mage	Average	Adequate	One Handed
	A white oak staff			Nepeth	Zefram, the head ostler	Average	Very Good	One Handed
35-45	A great staff	5		Rangermade	Rangers	Greater than Average	Splendid	Two Handed
	An oaken staff	3	9	Gabaldon	Arch Druid Linnhe	Average	Splendid	One Handed
	Sceptre			Sadris	Lasker the Fool	Average	Adequate	One Handed
	A sceptre with a dead bat hanging from it	2	9	Nepeth	Zarkan	Average	Good	One Handed
	A sturdy staff		7<9	Shieldhand Clan	A group of four guards	Greater than Average	Adequate	Two Handed
45-55	An iron-shod staff	6	11	Knights Retreat	Marquis Jush the Retreat commander	Greater than Average	Good	Two Handed
	Sceptre of Fools			Sadris	Lasker the Fool	Average	Fine	One Handed
	A short staff	3	10	Mt. Kresh	Mt. Kresh	Average	Splendid	One Handed
	The Staff of Azakath	3 (+1 with 1 band)		Mt._Kresh	Archpriest	Average	Adequate	Two handed
	A staff of protection	4	6	Iceforge Clan Forge	Hetdus	Greater than Average	Splendid	One Handed
	A two handed staff-mace	6		Shieldhand Clan	Old Ulgar the scout	Greater than Average	Fine	Two Handed
	A white iron stick		10	Ravel	Zernak	Average	Splendid	One Handed
55-65	A bo		>10	Zhamarr	Veteran warrior of the Cold Hand Clan	Average	Adequate	Two Handed
	A carved staff	3	12	Issla village	Lizard King	Average	Very Good	One Handed
	The Staff of Tarran	6	13 (2h)	Iceforge Clan Forge	Hetdus, the head cleric	Greater than Average	Nearly Perfect	One or Two Hands
65-85	Chain Staff	6	12	Varies	Design documents	Greater than Average	Nearly Perfect	Two Handed
	Tetsubo	5	15	Zhamarr	Veteran of the Cold Hand Clan	Average	Poor	Two Handed
	The Staff of Fire and Ice (Elemental Staff)	6	14	Varies	Design documents	Greater than Average	Fine	One/Two Handed
No eval	Crosier of Pain	?	?	Gnoll Temple	Lich of Patriarch	?	?	?

Two handed axe

Attack Type: Chop
Fast for: No One	Viable for: Ranger
Uniques: Great Mithril Axe, Rakar

• Pros: Reasonably common high ends, very nice damage
• Cons: Slow to raise, especially at low skills, heavy.
• High End Choices: Crescent does very good damage, as does Mighty Battleaxe. Great mithril axe and rakar both also do fairly good damage, but rakar has a special command.

Suggested Skill Progression:

• 0-40 Bronze Axe from Ilderia.
• 40-60 Woodsman’s Axe from Music Man’s Manor.
• 60-80 Wicked Half Moon Bladed Axe from Carcera, steel battleaxe from felgands
• 70-100 Mighty Battleaxe from Chaos Tower, Crescent and Rakar from Frost Giant Temple, Great Mithril Axe from underground zombie area.

Skill Level	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
15-20	A bronze axe	5	2	Ilderia	Ilderia	Greater than Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
45-55	A huge axe	5		Sunbird Tribe Village	The village woodcutter	Greater than Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
	A nice elvish axe	3		Oblivios	Dafyd	Greater than Average	Poor	Two Handed
	A woodsmans axe	4	10	Music Man	Music Man Quest	Greater than Average	Poor	Two Handed
55-65	A dark, double-bladed axe	5	>10	Sand dragons		Average	Adequate	Two Handed
	A double-sided battleaxe	4	>10	Nepeth	Hanness the Smith	Less Than Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
	A giant steel axe	5	12	Anakim	An anakim guard	Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
	A great steel axe			Zombie Miners	A dwarven zombie leader	Average	Adequate	Two Handed
	A sharp chrinspinx	5		Redcliff on Infidian	Lazy Talding the mischievous	Average	Poor	One/Two Handed
	A steel battleaxe	6	13	Felgand's training camp	Giledur, the adept axeman	Greater than Average	Fine	Two Handed
	A two-handed axe	5	12	Iceforge Clan Forge	Doria, a rather bulky guard	Less than Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
	A wicked half-moon bladed axe	6	>10	Various	Carcera	Greater than Average	Fine	Two Handed
	A woodsmans axe	5		Shipyard	Crowlen, an evil-looking sailor	Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
65-85	Crescent	5	14	Rune	The Ordainer of the Silver Circle	Greater than Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
	A great mithril axe	6		Zombie Miners	A dwarven zombie leader	Greater than Average	Fine	Two Handed
	A huge battleaxe	5	14	Steading	Housecarl	Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
	A large mattock	5	10<15	Rune	The frost giant, Aurgelmir	Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
	A mighty battleaxe	5	15	Chaos Tower	Chaos Warrior	Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
85-100	Rakar, Mattock of the Giants	5	16	Rune	The frost giant, Aurgelmir	Average	?	Two Handed

Two handed sword

Attack Type: Slash
Fast for: No One	Viable for: Paladin, Ranger, maybe Rogue
Uniques: Elvenheart, Powersword

• Pros: High damage, reasonable parrying
• Cons: Heavy, rare, slow to skill, especially at the start
• High End Choices: Elves and half-elves obviously should wield Elvenheart – making a puny character one of the highest physical damage dealing. Steel greatsword from felgands pretty awesome, otherwise shadow sword or powersword are ok.

Suggested Skill Progression:

• 0-40 Sword of Frost or Stone-Cutter sword from Giant’s conference.
• 40-60 Large Sword from Frost Giants’ Steading.
• 60-100 Shadow Sword from Razar, Elvenheart(for helf/elf) from Fort Vaugn, Powersword from Asvyan’s Domain, Steel Greatsword from felgands

Skill Level	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
0-5	Beast-slayer			Balan	Balan	Greater than Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
45-55	An iron greatsword	4	10	Felgand's training camp	Andredes, the adept swordsman	Greater than Average	Good	Two Handed
	A large steel sword		10	Nepeth	Captain of the cityguard	Average	Good	Two Handed
	An outstanding sword	5	15	Brunswik	A restful-looking guard	Greater than Average	Fine	Two Handed
	A rusted two-handed sword		>9	Battlefield	An undead Knight	Average	Adequate	Two Handed
	A steel bastard sword	3	>9	Nepeth	The village sherriff	Average	Fine	Two Handed
	Stone-cutter Sword		11	Giant Conference	Giants Conference	Greater than Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
	A sword of frost		11	Giant Conference	Giants Conference	Greater than Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
	A thick sword	4	<14	Mystic Fair	Sinyssham	Greater than Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
55-65	A large sword	4	11	Steading	Frost Giant	Average	Fine	Two Handed
65-85	A steel greatsword	6	14	Felgand's training camp	Kurnas, the skilled warrior	Greater than Average	Splendid	Two Handed
85-100	Elvenheart the Sword	5		Brigand Fortress	Zorgon	Average	Nearly Perfect	Two Handed
	The Shadow Sword	5	16	Chaos Tower	Razar	Average	Fine	Two Handed
	Two-Handed Powersword	5	16	Asyvans Domain	Asyvans Temple	Average	Nearly Perfect	Two Handed