Weapons

Source: AA for dummies

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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

Axe

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

• Pros: Common, easy to get, dwarven mining pick is good to dual wield || Cons: Low damage, nothing exceptional
• High End Choices: The two above are the only high end choices – stalactites are very heavy but seem to hit marginally harder than the picks.

Suggested skill progression:

• 0 – 15 ‘A pickaxe’ from Nemaset the dwarf in the park (use attack crush for this), or a small worthless pick from the scythe camp.
• 15-30 Bigbladed axe from Ravel Village.
• 30-45 Sharp Axe from Guardian of underground forest.
• 30-100 Stalactite from Star Caverns.
• 60-100 Dwarven Mining Pick from Dwarven miner.

Skill Level	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
0-5	Small, Worthless Pick			Drow Caverns	Elven Slave	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	Hoe			Arcadia	Zack, the farmer's son	Average	Poor	One Handed
5-10	Meat Cleaver			Haunted Manor	Meat Cleaver	Average	Poor	One Handed
5-10	Pickaxe			Quarry	Nemaset the Dwarf	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Achetus			Quarry	Quarry Journeyman	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	Small Pickaxe			Dwarven Mines	Small Dwarven Guard	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	Wood Axe			Hobbitat	hobbits	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Wooden Pick				Small Dwarf	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	an achetus				Quarry	Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	Bigbladed Axe			Ravel	Goblin Warrior	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	Hand Axe			Various	orcs and goblins	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	Old Hatchet				Bugbear	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	Sharp Cleaver			Fairy Ring	Fairy Cook	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	a bronze hatchet			Morin Farm	Twist, an aged tinker	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	a mining pick			Iceforge Clan Forge	A lean miner	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	A rusty pickaxe			Zombie Miners	A bloated dwarven zombie	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	a steel axe			Shieldhand Clan	A group of five soldiers	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	An elven axe			Elven Nature Preserve	Valendil, the preserve warden	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	Antique Battleaxe			Neville	Oterim the Sage	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	Green Painted Shovel			Ravel	Zeb	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
20-30	Hurlbat			Dalair	Weapon Seller	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	Ivory Pick			North orcs caves	Minyon, the impuissant orc	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	Large Stalactite			Star Caverns	Star Caverns	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	Meat Axe			Nepeth	Village Butcher	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	Pick			Rodentid Temple	Bradbury	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	Short-hafted Axe			Zhamarr	Grumpy Dwarf	Average	Poor	One Handed
30-35	a hooked axe			Shieldhand Clan	Farur, advisor to Torran	Greater than Average	Fine	One Handed
30-35	Meat Cleaver			Orc Mountain	Huge Orc Cook	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
30-35	Pickaxe			Underground Forest	Zombie Miner	Average	Poor	One Handed
30-35	Sharp Axe			Underground Forest	Tall Guardian	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
30-35	Stanaxe				Borro	Average	Adequate	One Handed
30-35	Trolloc Axe			Greenhaven	Trolloc Watcher	Average	Poor	One Handed
35-45	Hunters Axe			Gralains Tomb	Gralain's Tomb	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
35-45	Orcish Handaxe			Dalair	Orc Chieftan	Average	Poor	One Handed
45-55	A butterfly wing axe			Shieldhand Clan	Old Ulgar	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
45-55	Killer Axe			Neville	Bonebreaker, Old Smith	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
45-55	Tomahawk			Anasazi	Indian Guard	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
55-65	A giant steel axe			Anakim	An anakim guard	Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
55-65	a mithril mining pick			Iceforge Clan Forge	Vadsa the foreman	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
55-65	An iron bearded axe			Felgands Training Camp	Khal, the pathfinder	Average	Adequate	One Handed
55-65	Choppingweapon			Blors Cavern	Dwarven Guard	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
65-85	Dwarven Mining Pick	2		Dwarven Mines	Dwarven Miner	Average	Serviceable	One Handed

Club

Rating: A+	Attack Type: Crush
Fast for: Cleric	Reasonably fast for: Non entities, Shapeshifter, Paladin, Ranger
Uniques: Krakadoom, Stone Smasher Maul, Onyx, Destructor, Hammer of Gralain

• Pros: Common, big damage
• Cons: Heavy, bad parry
• High Ends: The hjem is very popular, but inferior to the other high clubs. Krakadoom is still probably the most damaging weapon in the game. A word of warning about the Stone Smasher Maul – 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.

Suggested skill Progression:

• 0-20 Fishing poles from Salty John, ‘Hammer’ from random hobbits in Hobbitat, frying pans.
• 20-30 Gnarled Club from Delair.
• 30-60 For clerics: mace of crushing from Drow Caverns. For everyone else, long-hafted sledgehammer from underground forest, or Warclub from Anasazi.
• 60-100 Heavy Jewel Encrusted Mace (hjem) from Orc Mountain.
• 70-100 Huge Warhammer or Krakadoom from Frost Giant Steading, Destructor (for dwarves) from Blor’s Hideout. Stone Smasher Maul from Massive Stone Giant.

Skill Level	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
0-5	Flask of Oil			Dalair	Weapon Seller	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
0-5	Rusty Shovel			Zhamarr	Zhammar	Average	Useless	One Handed
5-10	An old fishing pole			Alataciria	Ground	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	Fishing Pole			Dalair	Bugbear, Salty John	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	Hammer			Hobbitat	Hobbitat	Greater than Average	Useless	One Handed
5-10	Ladle				Aerial Servant	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	Large Fishing Pole			Tantallon	Salty John	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	Medium-sized Fishing Pole			Tantallon	Salty John	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	Quill Pen			Fairy Ring	Harried Looking Scribe	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	Rolling Pin			Nepeth	Lonely Housewife	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	Wooden Cane			Hobbitat	Hobbitat	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
10-15	A frying pan			Rune	A large ogre cook	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	A spider			Drow Outpost	Drow Outpost	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Battered Frying Pan			Haunted Manor	Haunted Manor	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Black Cudgel			Tantallon	Fredd	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	Crude Club			Zhamarr	Bandit	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Hardwood Cudgel			Various	Hork the Vicious Thug	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	Patient Chart				Sardus	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Sea Pole			Tantallon	Salty John	Greater than Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
10-15	Short Stick				Goblin, Poor Man	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	Small Mattock			Orc Mountain	Old Dwarven Guest	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Torch			Ranger Camp	Rangermade	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Walking Stick			Hobbitat	Hobbitat	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Wooden Club			Various	Vargas the Village Bully	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	A boat oar			Tantallon Sea Rescue	On ground	Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	A carpenters hammer			Tantallon Sea Rescue	A half-elf carpenter	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	a carved wooden spoon			Redcliff on Infidian	Dunry the cook	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	a metal mace			Shieldhand Clan	A group of five soldiers	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	a quarelmell			Quarry		Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	A shipwrights hammer			Alataciria	Ceylann, the shipwright	Greater than Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	A shipwrights hammer			Shipyard	Tamarlyn, the shipwright	Greater than Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	A short dwarvish bow			Shieldhand Clan	A gaunt dwarf	Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
15-20	a stout cudgel			Morin Farm	Uladia, a helpful cleric	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	A sturdy fishing pole			Alataciria	Rishon, an elven fisherman	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	Gavelok			Quarry	Quarry	Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	Gnarled Club			Dalair	Orc	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	Large Bone			Ghost Ship	Ghost Ship	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	Onix, Horn of Power			Harke Portal	Tole	Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	Quarelmell			Quarry	Quarry	Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	Sledgehammer			Music Man	Gardener	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	A stained club			Seal Point	Aemon	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	Antique Mace			Neville	Oterim the Sage	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	Branding Iron			Drakhiya	Drakhiya Torturer	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	Heavy Mace			Dalair	Bugbear, Bartender	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	Huge, Brutish Club			Scythe Camp	Naidim	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	Long-hafted Sledgehammer			Underground Forest	Zombie Blacksmith	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	Old, but usable mop			Scythe Camp	Worlph	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	Simple Mace				Fluf	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	Small Hammer			Nepeth	Elderly Sculptor	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
30-35	a basic trillian hammer of skillfulness			Drakhiya	Artificer Class	Average	Poor	One Handed
30-35	A blacksmiths hammer			Shieldhand Clan	Quenlar the smith	Greater than Average	Serviceable	One Handed
30-35	A huge club			Asyvans Domain	A large ogre	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
30-35	A large ceremonial club			Greenhaven	Gruk, the trolloc king	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
30-35	Belaying Pin			Lighthouse	Wraith of Lighthousekeeper	Average	Fine	One Handed
30-35	Huge Club			Various	Large Ogre	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
30-35	Large Wooden Club			Various	Big Ogre, Hill Giant	Greater than Average	Serviceable	One Handed
30-35	Quadrelle Mace			Drutes Tomb	Tholmus	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
30-35	Razor-sharp Mace					Greater than Average	Serviceable	One Handed
30-35	Trolloc Basher			Greenhaven	Greenhaven	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
35-45	A black hammer			Issla village	Lizard High Priest	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
35-45	a heavy mallet			Shieldhand Clan	A group of four guards	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
35-45	A well-balanced battlehammer			Shieldhand Clan	Torran, the leader of the Clan	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
35-45	Hammer			Zhamarr	Joe the Old Inkeeper	Average	Useless	One Handed
35-45	Iron Mace			Gralains Tomb	Gralain's Tomb	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
35-45	Mace of Crushing			Drow Caverns	Drow Priestess	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
35-45	The Big un			Cyranos House	Festus the drunkard	Average	Fine	One Handed
35-45	Tree Trunk	4		Various	Giant Ogre	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
35-45	Wooden Club			Scythe Camp	Psaico, Glumshakh	Average	Poor	One Handed
45-55	A balanced warhammer			Knights Retreat	Allain the knight commander	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
45-55	A heavy warhammer			Nepeth	Hanness the smith	Greater than Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
45-55	A mace of heavy metals			Anakim	Rasa, Mistress of the Anakim	Greater than Average	Adequate	One Handed
45-55	a stout cudgel			Shipyard	Davian, first mate of the Curiosity	Greater than Average	Adequate	One Handed
45-55	A well used battlehammer			Ravel	An elf cleric	Average	Adequate	One Handed
45-55	Dwarven Hammer			Tharanarak	A dwarven guard	Average	Poor	One Handed
45-55	Dwarven War Hammer			Gralains Tomb	Gralains Tomb	Greater than Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
45-55	Hammer of Gralain			Gralains Tomb	Gralain's Tomb	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
45-55	Iron Mace			Zhamarr	Optio	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
45-55	Mighty Maul			Flame Pit	Giant Pit	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
45-55	Warclub			Anasazi	Warrior	Greater than Average	Serviceable	One Handed
55-65	a two-handed hammer			Iceforge Clan Forge	Namori, a harried guard	Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
55-65	Heavy Hammer			Mt. Kresh	guard	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
55-65	Heavy Mace			Mt. Kresh	Mt. Kresh	Average	Fine	One Handed
55-65	Nasty Mace			Blors Cavern	Blor	Average	Poor	One Handed
55-65	The Big Un			Cyranos House	Festus the drunkard	Average	Nearly Perfect	One Handed
65-85	a huge hammer			Iceforge Clan Forge	The master smith	Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
65-85	Heavy Jeweled Encrusted Mace	4	14	Orc Mountain	Kazarov	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
65-85	Huge Warhammer	5	14	Steading	Jarl	Average	Adequate	Two Handed
85-100	Destructor		17 dwarf/11 elf	Blors Cavern	Blor	Average	Poor	One Handed
85-100	Krakadoom	6	16	Steading	Jarl	Greater than Average	Fine	Two Handed

Curved Blade

Rating: B-	Attack Type: Slash
Fast for: Non Entities	Viable for: Ranger, Paladin
Uniques: Sword of Sethic

• Pros: Decent mix of damage and parry and lightness, dual wields well
• Cons: Rare, mediocre damage
• High End Choices: The katana has pretty nice parry, and the sabre does reasonable damage, but neither are exceptional. I haven’t played around with the only unique – the Blade of Sethic, from another quest area. It is two-handed and from all reports nothing special.

Suggested Skill Progression:

• 0-20 Snickersnee from orc minions.
• 20-30 Shiny Scimitar from nomads area down south.
• 30-50 Long Katana from underground forest.
• 50-100 Katana from Zhammar.
• 60-100 Orcish Sabre from Delair or Drakhyra.

Skill Level	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
10-15	Blunt Scimitar			Nomads Camp	Deshret	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	Snickersnee	1		Troll Bridge	Orcling Minion	Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	A bronze sickle			Morin Farm	Qriachi, a wily half-orc	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	Old Iron Scimitar			Nomads Camp	Qustul	Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	Shiny Scimitar			Nomads Camp	Khasek, Muhammed	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	A curved dagger			Shipyard	Shendar, a peaceful sailor	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	A serrated scimitar			Nomads Camp	Hebel el-Arak, the chiefs son	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	Antique Cutlass			Neville	Oterim the Sage	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
20-30	Hooked Sword			Star Caves	Packrat Guard	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
20-30	Serrated Scimitar			Nomads Camp	Hebel	Average	Adequate	One Handed
30-35	An ancient sword			Eagle Clan	Arkuldashs room	Average	Very Good	One Handed
30-35	Backsword			Drutes Tomb	Torme	Average	Adequate	One Handed
30-35	Crescent Longsword			Issla Village Lizard	Guard	Average	Fine	One Handed
30-35	Drow Blade			Drow Outpost	Drow Warrior	Average	Adequate	One Handed
30-35	Sabre			Zhamarr	Swordswoman	Average	Fine	One Handed
35-45	A gleaming cavalry sword			Eagle Clan	Megdanur the leader of the Eagle Clan	Average	Good	One Handed
35-45	A gleaming cutlass			Cyranos House	The figurehead of Belle Star	Average	Fine	One Handed
35-45	A sharpened keen steel scimitar			Shieldhand Clan	Old Ulgar	Greater than Average	Nearly Perfect	One Handed
35-45	Long Katana			Underground Forest	Cos	Average	Good	One Handed
35-45	Orcish Scimitar			Dalair	Orc Lieutenant	Average	Fine	One Handed
35-45	Sabre			Andeli Castle	Commander	Average	Fine	One Handed
35-45	Scimitar			Zhamarr	Dark-skinned Guard, Legionnaire	Average	Fine	One Handed
45-55	Curved Black Scimitar			Orc Mountain	Queen Mularas, Princess Delaras	Average	Good	One Handed
45-55	Curved Scimitar			Drakhiya	Drakhiya Armoury	Average	Adequate	One Handed
55-65	A steel backsword			Felgands Training Camp	Vivole, the specialist	Average	Nearly Perfect	One Handed
55-65	an onyx-hilted hooked sword			Nepeth	Grorkag, head of Nepeth operations	Average	Splendid	One Handed
55-65	Andellens Wrath			Andellen Encampment	Andellen the deadly	Average	Splendid	One Handed
55-65	Falchion			Drakhiya	Drakhiya	Average	Very Good	One Handed
55-65	Katana			Zhamarr	Denzaemon of the Cold Hand Clan	Average	Nearly Perfect	One Handed
65-85	Orcish Sabre	2		Dalair	Orc Captain	Average	Good	One Handed
85-100	The Eagle Talon			Eagle Clan	Arkuldash of the Eagle Clan	Average	Absolutely Perfect	One Handed

Exotic

Rating: A	Attack Type: Differs. Elemental orbs good with everything.
Fast for: Ranger	Viable for: Paladin, Cleric
Uniques: None

• Pros: Nowadays very common, very good to dual wield, easy to hit with, extra damage against certain NPC’s
• Cons: No high-end single wielding choice
• High End Choices: The orbs are the only choice for the high end. They come in two flavours – fire and cold, and both ignore enemy armour when determining damage dealt and chance to hit. Fire orbs do exceptionally good damage against frost giants, while cold orbs do extra damage to some select NPC’s around the game. The armour-piercing property make these extremely good off-hand weapons when raising another skill, the Two-Weapon skill.

Suggested Skill Progression:

• 0-20 Weeding hook from Nepeth.
• 20-30 Dual wielded weeding hooks.
• 30-100 Elemental orbs, then dual wielding elemental orbs.

Skill Level	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
0-5	A red wild rose			Castle Virgis, SE isle	Maya, the Virgision Princess	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
0-5	A rune stone			Rune	The Keeper of the Silver Circle	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
0-5	Knight Tail			Scythe Camp	Scythe Games Area	Average	Useless	One Handed
5-10	Paper Fan			Drakhiya	Drakhiya Orc Mistress	Average	Adequate	One Handed
5-10	Shuriken			Dalair	Weapon Seller	Average	Useless	One Handed
5-10	Tambourine			Drakhiya	Drakhiya Dancing Girl	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	A carpenters saw			Tantallon Sea Rescue	On ground	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	A padded grapple			Tantallon Sea Rescue	On gound	Average	Useless	One Handed
10-15	Bible			Convent	Convent	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Boomerang			Tantallon Park	Sanal	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
20-30	Padded Grapple				Spence	Average	Useless	One Handed
30-35	A throwing star			Nepeth	Grorkag, head of Nepeth operations	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
55-65	A jeweled sceptre			Silent Grove	Mini Quest	Average	Fine	One Handed

Flail

Rating: B	Attack Type: Crush
Fast for: Cleric	Viable for: Paladin.
Uniques: Morning Star

• Pros: Decent damage, high-end ones easy to get
• Cons: Heavy, 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.

Suggested Skill Progression:

• 0-20 Iron Shackles from Drow Caverns.
• 20-30 Light Flail from Delair.
• 30-50 Heavy Morningstar from underground forest.
• 40-70 Ball and chain from Ravel.
• 60-100 Vicious looking flail from Scythe camp
• 70-100 Morning Star from Zhammar.

Skill Level	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
5-10	Hand Seine			Tantallon	Salty John	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Some Iron Shackles			Drow Caverns	Drow Caverns	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	a wooden flail			Morin Farm	Fergal and Saul	Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	Light Flail			Dalair	Orcish Punk	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	A six-tailed flail			Issla village	Bog Monster	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	Antique Morningstar			Neville	Oterim the Sage	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	Finely Braided Whip			Ranger Camp	Rangermade	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	Lizard Whip			Issla village	Lizardman Village	Average	Useless	One Handed
30-35	an old leather belt			Redcliff on Infidian	Perdan, a cantankerous old caretaker	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
30-35	Kurbash	2		Slaver Encampment	Young Orc Slaver	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
30-35	Nasty Looking Leather Whip			Scythe Camp	Thogar, Halamander	Average	Poor	One Handed
35-45	Ball and Chain			Ravel	Ravel	Greater than Average	Useless	One Handed
35-45	Cat o' Nine Tails	2		Orc Fortress	Tattooed Orc	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
35-45	Heavy Morningstar			Underground Forest	Torburn	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
35-45	Morningstar			Brigand Fortress	Carey	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
55-65	a heavy morning star			Shieldhand Clan	Tayal, the Captain	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
55-65	A two handed steel flail			Iceforge Clan Tunnels	Metlof the guard	Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
55-65	The Flail of Ancient Demolition			Anakim	Farlof, Master of the Anakim	Greater than Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
55-65	Vicious Looking Flail			Scythe Camp	Thogar	Average	Poor	One Handed
65-85	Morning Star	4		Zhamarr	Optio	Average	Useless	One Handed
65-85	The Xenophobe			Varies	Design documents	Greater than Average	Fine	Two Handed

Knife

Rating: D	Attack Type: Pierce
Fast for: Ranger, Paladin, Non Entities	Viable for: Mage, Necromancer, Shapeshifter, Cleric
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 heavy and not easy to get. Its damage isn’t exceptional, but blows all the other knives out of the water. Stone daggers are incredibly good against the stone golems, but fairly useless apart from that. The Main Gauche doesn’t do very good damage but it has very nice parry.

Suggested Skill Progression:

• 0-20 Rusty knife from newbie ship, or anything you like. It all raises very fast anyway.
• 20-40 Elven dagger, Sai, Whittling knife, anything around that level. Rondel dagger and Gemmed Rondel Dagger are pretty good here also.
• 40-100 Gigantic Nailfile from Zhammar.
• 60-100 Stone Dagger from Tharanack, Main Gauche from flaw.

Skill Level	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
5-10	Flame Dagger			Zhamarr	Centurion Mussolux	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	Pair of Scissors			Nepeth	Daughter of the House	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	Scalping Knife			Dalair	Brog	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	Short Dagger			Various	Slinky the Sneaky Thief	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	A broken bottle			Tantallon	Bottles!!	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	A deadly dagger			Manspiders	Tarellis, the Drowgar	Average	Splendid	One Handed
10-15	A knife			North orcs caves	A rough-looking orc	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
10-15	A lizard knife			Issla village	A lizard worshipper	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	A rusty dagger			Zombie Miners	A blotchy dwarven zombie	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	A sacrificial dagger			Issla village	A lizard worshipper	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	A slender knife			Nomads Camp	Merera, the nomad woman	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	A small dagger			Tantallon Sea Rescue	Mungo, the stations chief	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	a steel knife			Slaver Encampment	Lacan, an orc slaver	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
10-15	An engraved silver dagger			Shadow Elves	Tanaith, a Shadow Elf woman	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	Barbed Dart			Dalair	Weapon Seller	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Bee Sting			Fairy Ring	Fairy	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	Butcher Knife			Nepeth	Burly Butcher	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Curved Knife			Various	orcs and goblins	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	Goblin Stiletto			Syndreth	Goblin Guard	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Hunting Knife			Tantallon	Fredd	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	Jeweled Dagger			Ghost Ship	Haunted Ship	Average	Useless	One Handed
10-15	Knife			Various	Goblins	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Long Dagger			Various	Agrajag the Assassin	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
10-15	Pair of Shears			Music Man	Gardener	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	Polished Dagger			Nomads Camp	Lulia	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
10-15	Rose-thorn Dagger			Fairy Ring	Pretty Fairy	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	Rusty Dagger			Zombie Miners	Rotting Zombie	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Rusty Knife			Various	Orc	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	Small Knife			Various	Snivvel the Pasty Geek	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Throwing Knife			Dalair	Weapon Seller	Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	a compass			Quarry		Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	A deadly creese			Cyranos House	Otis the whiner	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	A knife			Castle Virgis, SE isle	A female cook	Average	Adequate	One Handed
15-20	A kris-bladed dagger			Shadow Elves	Dyrlan, a Shadow Elf man	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	A long knife			Alataciria	Faeldan, a sailor	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	a shiney, sharp knife			Morin Farm	Qriachi, a wily half-orc	Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	A short knife			Caltisia Village	Naskin the village tanner	Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	A slender kris			Drakhiya	A desert orc worker	Average	Adequate	One Handed
15-20	A small knife			Monolith	An acolyte	Average	Adequate	One Handed
15-20	A wood-handled dudgeon			Shadow Elves	Elaeri, the Shadow Elf elder	Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	an obsidian blade			Nepeth	A confident dwarf	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	Butchers Knife			Windmill	Millman	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	Elven Dagger			Elven Defense Fortress	Balor	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	Sailor's Knife			Lighthouse	Garrulous Sailor	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	Silver Bladed Dagger			Orc Fortress	Rat in Orc Shaman's Fortress	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	Silver Dagger			Fairy Ring	Fairy Princess	Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	Skean			Dalair	Bort	Average	Useless	One Handed
15-20	Spirit Knife			Ghost Ship	Threatening Spirit	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	Well-Balanced Dagger			Drutes tomb	Drute's Tomb	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	a blackened steel dagger			Nepeth	A confident dwarf	Average	Fine	One Handed
20-30	A merfolk dagger			Tingi Village	On ground	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	A small hunting knife			Felgands Training Camp	Illurus, the cooks son	Average	Fine	One Handed
20-30	an onyx dagger			Nepeth	Grorkag, head of Nepeth operations	Average	Fine	One Handed
20-30	Blackened Stiletto			Listhalia	Red Eyed Elf	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	Dangerous Shiv			Dalair	Bort	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	Gigantic Nailfile			Zhamarr	Silver Green Dragon	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	Jagged Dagger			Drow Outpost	Achrya	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	Large Knife			Burnham Woods	Burnham Messenger	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	Large Tooth			Altons Caverns	Toothy	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
20-30	Razor-Sharp Dagger			Hobbitat	Sharrow	Average	Fine	One Handed
20-30	Sai			Zhamarr	Warrior of the Cold Hand Clan	Average	Splendid	One Handed
20-30	Silver Knife (bonus against undead)	1		Neville	Neville Silversmith	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
20-30	Vicious Dagger			Altons Caverns	Student Mage	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	Vicious Knife			Altons Caverns	Student Mage	Average	Good	One Handed
30-35	a fine silver dagger			Silent Grove	An elf corpse	Average	Good	One Handed
30-35	A kitchen knife			Felgands Training Camp	Nirullu, the cook	Average	Fine	One Handed
30-35	An obsidian knife			Rune	The Keeper of the Silver Circle	Average	Adequate	One Handed
30-35	An opalescent long knife			dont know	dont know	Average	Adequate	One Handed
30-35	a rondel dagger	1		Shadow Elves	The ghost of Jainesian	Average	Fine	One handed
30-35	Big, Mean Looking Knife	1			Huge Cook	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
30-35	Filthy Blade	1		Scythe Camp	Gorbosh	Average	Adequate	One Handed
30-35	Heavy Dirk			Neville	Bort	Average	Poor	One Handed
30-35	Long Stiletto			Neville	Bort	Average	Poor	One Handed
30-35	Sacrificial Dagger			Gnoll Temple	Gnoll High Priest	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
30-35	Vicious Looking Carving Knife			Scythe Camp	Scythe Quest	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
35-45	A black dagger			Battlefield	Jack the battlefield caretaker	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
35-45	a gemmed rondel dagger	1		Shadow Elves	The ghost of Jainesian	Average	Splendid	One handed
35-45	A mirrored knife			Shipyard	Dorlon, captain of the Curiosity	Average	Splendid	One Handed
35-45	a paring knife			Redcliff on Infidian	Dunry the cook	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
35-45	A sharp butchers knife			Knights Retreat	Deedle the cook	Average	Splendid	One Handed
35-45	A sharp knife			Duender	Brannon, a cheerful fletcher	Average	Poor	One Handed
35-45	An ancient dagger			Eagle Clan	Utyo the warrior of the Eagle Clan infantry	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
35-45	Gleaming Dagger			Neville	Bort	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
35-45	Hunga-Munga			Dalair	Weapon Seller	Average	Adequate	One Handed
35-45	Sharpened Kris			Neville	Bort	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
35-45	Small Whittling Knife			Tantallon Park	Moosah	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
45-55	Big Knife	2		Steading	Frost Giant Whelp	Average	Poor	One Handed
45-55	Stone Dagger	3		Tharanarak	Lava Man	Average	Very Good	One Handed
55-65	Shadowspawn			Listhalia	Red Eyed Elf	Average	Fine	One Handed

Longsword

Rating: A+	Attack Type: Slash
Fast for: Paladin, Ranger	Viable for: Non entities, 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: A little less damage than the other A+ weapon classes, hard to dual
• 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.

Suggested Skill Progression:

• 0-40 Dark Longsword from Drow Caverns.
• 30-40 Golden Sword from Fub’s.
• 40-100 Diablo from Proud Knight.
• 40-60 ‘A longsword’ from all over the place, silver longsword from Neville.
• 50-70 Rune sword from Zhammar and Vorpal Blade from the lich.
• 70-100 Exquisite rune sword from Burnham and Proud Knight, Starblade from Star Caverns, Pendragon from Nepeth, fine broadsword from Scythe camp, Sword of Virgis from Amazons.
• 80-100 Outstanding sword from Brunswick.

Skill Level	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Notes	Handed
20-30	a broad sword			Morin Farm	Earl Morin	Greater than Average	Adequate		One Handed
20-30	Dark Longsword			Drow Caverns	Drow Caverns	Average	Adequate		One Handed
30-35	A battered longsword			Shadow Elves	Dagoreth, a Dark Elf	Average	Fine		One Handed
30-35	A dull longsword			Andellen Encampment	An elven warrior	Average	Adequate		One Handed
30-35	A good longsword			Alataciria	Vaeldar, a guard	Average	Fine		One Handed
30-35	A heavy longsword			Brunswik	A village guard	Greater than Average	Serviceable		One Handed
30-35	A slender longsword			Drakhiya	Juggler near Drakhiya	Average	Splendid		One Handed
30-35	Antique Longsword			Neville	Oterim the Sage	Average	Serviceable		One Handed
30-35	Golden Sword			Fubs Fortress	Maimed Corpse	Average	Serviceable		One Handed
30-35	Grey Sword			Zhamarr	Astaroth	Average	Very Good		One Handed
30-35	Mottled Looking Sword of Bone			Orc Mountain	Alzarov	Average	Poor		One Handed
35-45	a bastard sword			Andellen Encampment	Neller, the elven captain	Average	Adequate		One Handed
35-45	A flamberge-style longsword			Shadow Elves	Lyrdan, a Shadow Elf guard	Average	Fine		One Handed
35-45	A steel bastard sword			Nepeth	Nepeth Sherriff	Average	Good		One Handed
35-45	An elven longsword			Andellen Encampment	Butch, Andellens personal guard	Average	Very Good		One Handed
35-45	Broad Sword			Dalair	Orc Mercenary	Average	Fine		One Handed
35-45	Broadsword			Knights Stronghold	Knight's Stronghold	Average	Good		One Handed
35-45	Darksword			Neville	Old Smith	Average	Serviceable		One Handed
35-45	Guard's Sword			Balan	guards	Average	Very Poor		One Handed
35-45	Longsword			Orc Mountain	Door Guard, Red-eyed Elf	Average	Good		One Handed
35-45	Longsword			Windmill	Windmill Guard, Temple Guard, Old Smith	Average	Fine		One Handed
35-45	Ornamental Longsword			Orc Mountain	Lord Timothy	Average	Adequate		One Handed
35-45	Silver Longsword	2		Neville	Old Silversmith	Average	Fine		One Handed
45-55	A nice broadsword			Nepeth	Hanness the smith	Average	Very Good		One Handed
45-55	an unholy longsword			Morr	An undead paladin	Greater than Average	Good		One Handed
45-55	Broad Sword			Mt. Kresh	Mt. Kresh	Average	Very Good		One Handed
45-55	Diablo, the devil sword	3	15	Knights Stronghold	Proud Knight	Greater than Average	Absolutely Perfect		One Handed
45-55	Diamond Pommel Sword			Monolith	Guardian	Average	Splendid		One Handed
45-55	Elven Sword	2		Elven Defense Fortress	Patrol Sergeant	Average	Very Good		One Handed
45-55	Longsword			Knights Stronghold	Knight's Stronghold	Average	Splendid		One Handed
45-55	Nice Longsword			Nepeth	Guard of the Gate	Average	Splendid		One Handed
45-55	Polished Longsword			Burnham Woods	Burnham	Average	Splendid		One Handed
45-55	Replica of the Pendragon			Nepeth	Knight Shoppe	Average	Splendid		One Handed
45-55	Stone Cutter Sword			Flame Pit	Giant Pit	Greater than Average	Fine		One Handed
45-55	Sword of Fire			Giant Conference	Giant's Conference	Greater than Average	Serviceable		One Handed
45-55	Vicious Longsword			Altons Caverns	Alton's Cavern	Average	Splendid		One Handed
55-65	A Drowgar longsword			Manspiders	Thoraxil, the Manspider leader	Average	Splendid		One Handed
55-65	A falcon sword			Puffin Beach	Okart, a madman	Average	Splendid		One Handed
55-65	an elven bastard sword			Andellen Encampment	Andellen the deadly	Average	Nearly Perfect		One Handed
55-65	Bastard Sword			Nepeth	Village Sherriff, Captain of the Cityguard	Average	Very Good		One Handed
55-65	Elven Longsword			Elven Defense Fortress	Annac	Average	Splendid		One Handed
55-65	Fighter's Broadsword			Asyvans Domain	Asyvan's Temple	Average	Very Good		One Handed
55-65	Fine Steel Sword			Nepeth	Honor Guard, Gilbert	Average	Nearly Perfect		One Handed
55-65	Jagged Longsword			Drow Outpost	Manspider	Average	Splendid		One Handed
55-65	Rune Sword		13	Zhamarr	Astaroth, Proud Knight	Average	Splendid		One Handed
55-65	Sharp Longsword			Zhamarr	Palace Guard	Average	Nearly Perfect		One Handed
55-65	Virgision Sword			Castle Virgis, SE isle	Tall Female Warrior, Maya	Average	Splendid		One Handed
55-65	Vorpal Blade			Merrick	Lich of High Lord Merrick	Average	Nearly Perfect		One Handed
65-85	A bright longsword			Morr	An undead paladin	Average	Splendid		One Handed
65-85	Blade of Righteousness			Varies	Design document	Greater than Average	Nearly Perfect		One Handed
65-85	Demons Frenzy			Varies	Design document	Greater than Average	Nearly Perfect		One Handed
65-85	Exquisite Rune Sword		14	Burnham Castle	King Phillip	Average	Splendid		One Handed
65-85	Fine Broadsword			Scythe Camp	Balfor	Average	Nearly Perfect		One Handed
65-85	Fine Silver Sword			Andeli Castle	Knight	Average	Very Good		One Handed
65-85	Greatsword			Listhalia	Lord Cythrol	Average	Useless		One Handed
65-85	Sword of Virgis			Castle Virgis, SE isle	Virgison Castle	Average	Nearly Perfect		One Handed
85-100	An outstanding sword	5	16	Brunswik	A restful-looking guard	Average	Good		One Handed
85-100	Bloodred			Zhamarr	Astaroth	Average	Nearly Perfect		One Handed
85-100	Starblade			Star Caves	Ancient Werewolf	Average	Nearly Perfect		One Handed

Marksmanship

Rating: A	Attack Type: N/A
Fast for: Ranger, Non Entities	Viable for: Everyone else but paladins
Uniques: Crossbow, Silver Longbow

• Pros: Can be used concurrently with other weapons, extremely high damage, useful for everybody
• Cons: Very heavy to carry around, some NPC’s really dislike having things thrown at them
• High End Choices: Varied, read below

Suggested Skill Progression:

• 0-20 Catty from Willim. You can only get this at level 5 or below, so if you plan on getting a head start on marksmanship, get your hands on one before you hit level 6.
• 20-100 Crossbow from Hermit. The only other ‘pure’ marksmanship weapon in the game.

Skill Level	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
45-55	Crossbow (unique)	3	11	Brigand Fortress	Hermit	Average	Useless	One Handed
85-100	Elemental Crossbow			Varies	Design documents	Average	Useless	Two Handed

Polearm

Rating: B+	Attack Type: Slash, Chop for Poleaxe
Fast for: Paladin	Viable for: Ranger, Cleric
Uniques: Awesome Scythe, Orcish Poleaxe

• Pros: Solid damage
• Cons: Rare, hard to dual wield
• High End Choices: The poleaxe is one-handed, while the scythes require both hands. They all do pretty good damage.

Suggested Skill Progression:

• 0-30 Hoe from paladin estates.
• 30-50 Halberd from Stronghold.
• 50-60 Huge Halberd from Scythe camp.
• 60-75 Orcish Poleaxe from Delair, decent scythe from Scythe camp.
• 70-100 Awesome scythe from Scythe camp, Sharp Poleaxe from retreat.

Skill Level	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
5-10	Hoe			Arcadia	Old Farmer	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	A hooked bill			Nepeth	Gunzel, the junior guard	Average	Fine	One Handed
20-30	A sickle	2		Tingi Village	Illonomon, a merman	Average	Good	One Handed
20-30	Hoe			Paladin Estates	Orlyn	Average	Poor	One Handed
30-35	Halberd					Greater than Average	Serviceable	One Handed
30-35	Polearm			Brigand Fortress	Booker	Average	Very Good	One Handed
35-45	A steel tipped lance			Ravel	An arrogant elven rogue	Average	Poor	One Handed
35-45	an iron halberd			Shieldhand Clan	A group of four guards	Greater than Average	Adequate	One Handed
35-45	An iron poleaxe			Felgands Training Camp	Finlago, the adept pikeman	Greater than Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
35-45	Antique Halberd			Neville	Oterim the Sage	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
35-45	Long Glaive			Drakhiya	Drakhiya Armoury	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
45-55	Naginata			Zhamarr	Leader of the Cold Hand Clan	Greater than Average	Serviceable	One Handed
45-55	Pikestaff			Troll Bridge	Giant Troll	Average	Very Good	One Handed
45-55	Razor Sharp Halberd			Burnham Woods	Guards in Burnham Woods	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
55-65	A great voulge			Anakim	An anakim guard	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
55-65	A long halberd			Morr	An undead paladin	Greater than Average	Fine	One Handed
55-65	Huge Halberd			Scythe Camp	Bokwa	Average	Adequate	One Handed
65-85	A Sharp Poleaxe			Knights Retreat	Count Leopold	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
65-85	A superior bardiche			Eagle Clan	Arkuldash	Average	Fine	One Handed
65-85	Awesome Scythe			Scythe Camp	Glock	Average	Very Good	One Handed
65-85	Decent Scythe			Scythe Camp	Glock	Average	Good	One Handed
65-85	Malign Pikestaff			Troll Bridge	Giant Troll	Average	Splendid	One Handed
65-85	Orcish Poleaxe	4		Dalair	Orcish Chieftain	Average	Poor	One Handed

Rapier

Rating: A-	Attack Type: Pierce
Fast for: non entities	Viable for: Paladin
Uniques: Sword of Gilian, Crystal Blade

• Pros: Very good at disarming and parrying, powerful uniques for tanks, pretty common, very good to dual wield
• Cons: Lower damage than other A category weapons
• High End Choices: All three high end choices have very good parrying abilities, with +2 dexterity from crystal blade and +2 constitution from Sword of Gilian. They’re very good for dual wielding or tanking with as a non entity.

Suggested Skill Progression:

• 0-10 Stick from Tantallon sewers.
• 10-20 Turquoise dart from Ravel.
• 20-30 Sewing needle from Andeli.
• 30-50 Thin rapier from Neville.
• 50-60 Silver rapier from elven tombs.
• 60-70 Very fine rapier from Nepeth
• 70-100 Jeweled Dwarven Rapier and Sword of Gilian from Tharanack, Crystal Blade from Zhammar

Skill	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
0-5	Dart			Dalair	Weapon Seller	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	A stick	1		Tantallon	Tant. Sewers	Average	Useless	One Handed
10-15	A dueling foil			Knights Retreat	Earl Yarbreaux	Average	Adequate	One Handed
10-15	a light foil			Morin Farm	Enoch, a trainee guard	Average	Adequate	One Handed
10-15	Awl			Neville	Lanky Tanner	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Sewing Needle			Andeli Castle	Andeli	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Turquoise Dart			Ravel	Ravel Dartboard	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	Antique Rapier			Neville	Oterim the Sage	Average	Good	One Handed
15-20	Sculptor's Chisel			Nepeth	Elderly Sculptor	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	Bugbear Rapier			Orc Fortress	Bugbear Ambassador	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	Thin Poniard			Various	Grabbo the Pickpocket	Average	Adequate	One Handed
30-35	Dangerous Feather			Castle Virgis, SE isle	SE Isle	Average	Useless	One Handed
35-45	a well-used rapier			Nepeth	A dangerous-looking orc	Average	Splendid	One Handed
35-45	An elegant colichemarde			Flaws House	An elven adventurer	Average	Very Good	One Handed
35-45	Standard Rapier	2		Nepeth	Arrogant Nobleman	Average	Splendid	One Handed
35-45	Thin Rapier	3		Neville	Bort	Average	Splendid	One Handed
45-55	An elven foil			Rune	A massive ice serpent	Average	Nearly Perfect	One Handed
55-65	Blue Steel Rapier			Greenhaven	Greenhaven	Average	Splendid	One Handed
55-65	Elven Rapier			Elven Defense Fortress	EDF	Average	Splendid	One Handed
55-65	Very Fine Rapier	2	13	Nepeth	Arrogant and Well Dressed Nobleman	Average	Nearly Perfect	One Handed
65-85	Crystal Blade			Zhamarr	Astaroth	Average	Absolutely Perfect	One Handed
65-85	Jeweled Dwarven Rapier	2	14	Tharanarak	Dwarven Paladin	Average	Nearly Perfect	One Handed
65-85	Sword of Gilian			Tharanarak	Thranarack	Average	Absolutely Perfect	One Handed

Shortsword

Rating: C	Attack Type: Pierce or Slash, roughly equivalent
Fast for: Ranger, Paladin, Non Entities	Viable for: Cleric, Mage, Necromancer, Shapeshifter
Uniques: Blade of Losoth, Ebonblade

• Pros: Very common, decent to dual with, raises quickly
• Cons: Low damage, nothing exciting whatsoever
• High End Choices: The wolfblade is really the only high end choice. You can insert a gem into it, which gives it a little extra damage and makes it a free light source. It has reasonable parry, does reasonable damage, but is nothing exciting.

Suggested Skill Progression:

• 0-20 Wooden sword from Nepeth, Slim sword from fairy ring.
• 20-40 Worn sword from Fort Vaugn, Blade of Losoth from Drow Caverns.
• 40-70 Plain sword from Fort Vaugn, Quality Shortsword from Marika.
• 70-100 Wolfblade from Start Caverns, or if dual wielding Wakizashi from Zhammar or Blackened Gladius from Knight’s Retreat.

Skill Level	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
5-10	Wooden Sword			Nepeth	Knight Training Area	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-15	Short Sword			Drow Caverns	Drow Caverns	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	Slim Sword			Monastery	Imp	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	Small Stone Sword				Clansman	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	A military shortsword			Knights Retreat	Captain Fad	Average	Adequate	One Handed
15-20	a short blade			Morin Farm	A skeletal sergeant	Average	Adequate	One Handed
15-20	Antique Shortsword			Neville	Oterim the Sage	Average	Adequate	One Handed
15-20	Dull Sword			Star Caves	Packrats	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	Fancy Sword			Ebonbane Manor	Murris	Greater than Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	Short Sword with a Deep Red Hilt			Ravel	Black Orc	Average	Fine	One Handed
15-20	Small Sword			Balan	Balan	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	Wide Shortsword			Various	Fenton the Ugly Robber	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	Wooden Sword			Orc Mountain	Old Elven Guest	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	a broad shortsword			Shieldhand Clan	A group of five soldiers	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	A fair shortsword			Alataciria	Silvanya, Ciriaryn of Alataciria	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	a small shortsword			Morr	An undead paladin	Average	Fine	One Handed
20-30	a standard shortsword for knights			Morin Farm	Penna the Apprentice Squire	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	Battered Sword			Various	orcs	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
20-30	Blade of Losoth			Drow Caverns	Drow Mage	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	Elven Shortsword			Elven Defense Fortress	Elven Warrior	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	Ghost Sword			Ghost Ship	Ghost of Captain	Average	Good	One Handed
20-30	Goblin Sword			Syndreth	Goblin Commander	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	Orcish Sword			Dalair	Orc Recruit	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	Shining Sword			Castle Virgis, SE isle	SE Isle	Average	Good	One Handed
20-30	Shortsword			Orc Mountain	Entrance Guard,Patrol Guard	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	Small Shortsword			Magic Caves	Apprentice Guard	Average	Fine	One Handed
20-30	Standard Shortsword for Knights			Nepeth	Knight Shoppe	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	Vicious Shortsword			Altons Caverns	Alton's Caverns	Average	Adequate	One Handed
20-30	Worn Sword			Brigand Fortress	Brigand Fortress	Average	Adequate	One Handed
30-35	A fine shortsword			Nepeth	Stanton	Average	Fine	One Handed
30-35	A iron shortsword			Gabaldon	Druid apprentice Lachlans	Average	Fine	One Handed
30-35	a mithril shortsword			Iceforge Clan Forge	Yosra, the Captain of the Guard	Average	Nearly Perfect	One Handed
30-35	A sword			Fubs Fortress	A guard patrolling the hall	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
30-35	An evil shortsword			Morr	An undead fallen paladin sergeant	Average	Fine	One Handed
30-35	Dangerous Sword			Burnham Woods	Burnham Wood	Average	Fine	One Handed
30-35	EbonBlade			Ebonbane Manor	Murris	Average	Fine	One Handed
30-35	Honed Sword			Slaver Encampment	Slavering Orc	Average	Fine	One Handed
30-35	Sharp Shortsword			Nepeth	Tower Guard (Nepeth), Young Squire	Average	Fine	One Handed
30-35	Small Shortsword			Syndreth	Sydryth	Average	Fine	One Handed
30-35	Sword			Orc Fortress	Orc Garden, Fortresse	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
35-45	A steel butterfly sword			Felgands Training Camp	Ainan, the promising weapons dualist	Average	Good	One Handed
35-45	Shortsword			Paladin Estates	Ruell Bracken	Average	Fine	One Handed
35-45	Silver Short Sword			Andeli Castle	Squire	Average	Fine	One Handed
35-45	Silver Shortsword			Andeli Castle	Guard, Castle Guard	Average	Adequate	One Handed
35-45	Sword			Magic Caves	Big Guard	Average	Good	One Handed
35-45	Wicked Shortsword			Gralains Tomb	Hostile Graverobber	Average	Good	One Handed
45-55	A blackened gladius			Knights Retreat	Baron Stratton the Junior Knight	Average	Nearly Perfect	One Handed
45-55	A serrated shortsword			Shieldhand Clan	Old Ulgar	Average	Adequate	One Handed
45-55	A tempered glaive			Cyranos House	Virgil the assassin	Average	Very Good	One Handed
45-55	Gathering of the Spiders			Drow Caverns	Design Document	Average	Nearly Perfect	One Handed
45-55	Plain Sword			Brigand Fortress	Brigand Fortress	Average	Good	One Handed
45-55	Quality Shortsword			Varoius	Marika	Average	Splendid	One Handed
45-55	Short Broadsword			Orc Mountain	Prince Dazarov	Average	Very Good	One Handed
45-55	Wakizashi	2		Zhamarr	Denzaemon of the Cold Hand Clan	Average	Fine	One Handed
55-65	Silver Sword			Andeli Castle	Tower Guard (Andeli)	Average	Adequate	One Handed
55-65	Wolfblade			Star Caves	Ancient Werewolf	Average	Nearly Perfect	One Handed
55-65	Wolfblade (with gem)			Star Caves	Ancient Werewolf	Average	Very Good	One Handed

Spear

Rating: C+	Attack Type: Pierce
Fast for: Shapeshifter, Ranger, Paladin	Viable for:
Uniques: None

• Pros: Decent damage
• Cons: High end ones are rare, and in general they’re mediocre
• High End Choices: Golden Trident is your only choice, but at least it does pretty good damage.

Suggested Skill Progression:

• 0-20 Well used hay fork from Nepeth.
• 20-50 Quaker Trident from Star Caverns.
• 50-70 Marlinespike from Lighthouse, Diamond spear from Monolith.
• 70-100 Golden Trident from Amazons.

Skill Level	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
0-5	A whalebone			Cyranos House	A whale	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	Crooked Arrow			Ranger Camp	Rangermade	Average	Useless	One Handed
5-10	Rusty Pitchfork			Arcadia	Farmer's Daughter	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	Spear			Anasazi	Anasazi	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	A flint tipped arrow			Duender	Brannon, a cheerful fletcher	Average	Useless	One Handed
10-15	Clawed Stick			Yeti Caves	Yeti Area	Greater than Average	Serviceable	One Handed
10-15	Nomad's Stick			Nomads Camp	Khastem	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	Steel tipped arrow			Duender	Brannon, a cheerful fletcher	Average	Useless	One Handed
10-15	Wooden Skewer			Drakhiya	Drakhiya	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-20	a puncheon			Quarry		Average	Poor	One Handed
10-20	A short spear			Manor	An orc scout	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
10-20	An iron spear			Scythe encampment	Urak, an orc guard	Greater than Average	Serviceable	One Handed
10-20	Basic Spear			Drakhiya	Drakhiya	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
10-20	Blunt Spear			Rodentid Temple	Rodentid Temple	Average	Fine	One Handed
10-20	Javelin			Ravel	Goblin General, Gobbo	Average	Fine	One Handed
10-20	Puncheon			Quarry	Quarry	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-20	Short Spear				Orc Scout	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
10-20	Standard Pike			Tantallon Dumps	Gurk	Greater than Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
10-20	Straight Arrow	1		Listhalia	Anybody with bows	Average	Useless	One Handed
10-20	Well Used Hay Fork			Nepeth	Redfaced Farmer	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
10-20	Wooden Spear			Castle Virgis, SE isle	SE Isle	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	a besacia			Quarry		Average	Serviceable	One Handed
20-30	A long black spear			Manspiders	A spider trainer	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	A long spear			Gnoll Temple	An alert guard	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
20-30	Antique Spear			Neville	Oterim the Sage	Average	Poor	One Handed
20-30	Besacia			Quarry	Quarry	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
20-30	Black Spear			Greenhaven		Average	Serviceable	One Handed
20-30	Javelin			Dalair	Weapon Seller	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
20-30	Orcish Pike			Dalair	Orc Sentry	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
20-30	Red Spear			Greenhaven	trollocs	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
20-30	Short Spear				Recruit	Average	Poor	One Handed
30-35	a huge metal fork			Anakim	A hungry anakim	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
30-35	an assisculus			Quarry		Average	Poor	One Handed
30-35	Assisculus			Quarry	Quarry	Average	Poor	One Handed
30-35	Bronze Spear			Zhamarr	Sleepy Gate Guard	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
30-35	Dark Spear			Zhamarr	Legionnaire	Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
30-35	Long Spear			Ranger Camp	Rangermade	Average	Poor	One Handed
30-35	Quaker Trident			Star Caves	Earthquaker	Average	Splendid	One Handed
30-35	Spear			Burnham Woods	Foot Soldier	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
30-35	Stout Spear			Ranger Camp	Rangermade	Average	Poor	One Handed
35-45	a savage halfspear			Shieldhand Clan	Farur, advisor to Torran	Average	Poor	One Handed
35-45	Atlatl			Anasazi	Anasazi	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
35-45	Diamond Spear			Monolith	Diamond Monolith	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
35-45	Long Pike				Tall Watchman	Average	Adequate	One Handed
35-45	Marlinspike			Evangeline	Average	Good	One Handed
35-45	Obsidian-tipped Spear			Castle Virgis, SE isle	Native Warrior	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
35-45	Pitchfork	2		Paladin Estates	Equina	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
35-45	Serrated Spear			Greenhaven	Trolloc Guard	Average	Adequate	One Handed
55-65	A steel spear			Shieldhand Clan	Old Ulgar	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
55-65	An ancient pike			Anakim	Farlofs personal guard	Average	Adequate	One Handed
55-65	Golden Trident			Castle Virgis, SE isle	Giant Water Elemental	Average	Very Good	Two Handed

Staff

Rating: B+	Attack Type: Crush
Fast for: Cleric, Ranger	Viable for: Mage, Necromancer, Shapeshifter, Non Entities, Paladin
Uniques: Glimmer, Staff of Azakath, Glimmer, Oaken Staff

• Pros: Common, fairly versatile
• 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. Carved staff and white iron stick are decent when you can’t find those uniques. Tetsubo is the only real choice for fighter-types, but it does pretty good damage.

Suggested Skill Progression:

• 0-15 Crooked staff from Belob.
• 0-100 Glimmer from Alton’s Caverns (for mages).
• 15-30 Old staff from Drow Caverns.
• 30-50 Snake staff from Drakhyra.
• 40-60 Pine staff from Academy, Elven Quarterstaff from Elven Defence Forces.
• 50-70 White iron stick from Ravel.
• 60-100 Staff of Azakath from Mount Kresh, Tetsubo from Zhammar, Carved Staff from lizard village.

Skill Level	Weapon	Wt.	Str	Area	NPC	Damage	Parry	Handed
0-5	Long Stick			Gremlin Village	Sappy the Gremlin	Average	Very Poor	One Handed
5-10	Crooked Staff			Various	Belob the Gangly Mage	Greater than Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
5-10	Elvish Bow			Listhalia	Elven Guard	Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
10-15	A small stick			Elven Nature Preserve	Celebrim, an elven child	Average	Poor	One Handed
10-15	Caribou's Antler			Yeti Caves	Yeti Area	Average	Fine	One Handed
10-15	Light Staff			Tantallon	Fredd	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
10-15	Long Pole			Yeti Caves	Yeti Area	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
10-15	Old Staff			Drow Caverns	Drow Mage	Greater than Average	Poor	Two Handed
10-15	Peculiar Black Rod			Yeti Caves	Old Mage	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
10-15	Strong Branch			Ravel	Ravel	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	A glass blowers pipe			Glassblower	Kezziah, the glass blower	Average	Adequate	One Handed
15-20	A great bow			Drakhiya	An orcish wall guard	Average	Poor	Two Handed
15-20	a light staff			Morin Farm	Irianna the mage	Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	A long candlestick			Manspiders	Manspider Acolyte	Average	Fine	One Handed
15-20	A short broom			Drakhiya	A serpentari house servant	Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	A short staff			Alataciria	Kiryn, one of the islandfolk	Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	A slender stick			Academy	Surya, a young elf	Average	Good	One Handed
15-20	A thin staff			Knights Retreat	Jocelin	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	An ancient staff			Manspiders	Cephalorien, the Manspider historian	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	Antique Staff			Neville	Oterim the Sage	Greater than Average	Adequate	One Handed
15-20	Broom			Andeli Castle	Maid	Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	Crowbar			Convent	Convent	Greater than Average	Very Poor	One Handed
15-20	Dark Bow			Various	Carcera	Average	Poor	Two Handed
15-20	Long Staff			Nepeth	Old Wise Sage	Greater than Average	Poor	One Handed
15-20	Long Staff			Ranger Camp	Ranger-Made	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	Pool Stick			Brigand Fortress	Brigand Fortress	Average	Adequate	One Handed
15-20	Quarterstaff			Nepeth	Smiling Citizen	Greater than Average	Serviceable	One Handed
15-20	Stout Staff			Ranger Camp	Ranger-Made	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
20-30	A big broom			Anakim	An anakim maid	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
20-30	A fine short bow			Duender	Brannon, a cheerful fletcher	Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
20-30	Long Stick			Castle Virgis, SE isle	Young Female Warrior	Average	Fine	One Handed
20-30	Short Bow			Ranger Camp	Rangermade	Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
30-35	A fine long bow			Duender	Brannon, a cheerful fletcher	Average	Poor	Two Handed
30-35	a gnarled old walking stick			Redcliff on Infidian	Arrora the artisan	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
30-35	A maple staff			Gabaldon	Linnhe	Average	Splendid	One Handed
30-35	A pine staff			Academy	Diam, the language master	Greater than Average	Very Good	One Handed
30-35	a polished diamond staff			?	?	Average	Good	One Handed
30-35	a sturdy oak staff			Iceforge Clan Forge	Fiola the acolyte	Greater than Average	Adequate	One Handed
30-35	Black Oak Staff			Gnoll Temple	Gnoll Temple	Average	Serviceable	One Handed
30-35	Black Staff	2		Yeti Caves	Old Mage	Average	Fine	One Handed
30-35	Elvish Quarterstaff			Elven Defense Fortress	Illarin	Greater than Average	Serviceable	One Handed
30-35	Long Bow			Altons Caverns	Rangermade	Average	Poor	Two Handed
30-35	Rosewood Staff			Drutes tomb	Tanica	Average	Adequate	One Handed
30-35	Snake Staff			Drakhiya	Drakhiya	Average	Very Good	One Handed
30-35	Vicious Staff			Altons Caverns	Student Mage	Average	Adequate	One Handed
30-35	White oak staff			Nepeth	Zefram, the head ostler	Average	Very Good	One Handed
35-45	a sturdy staff			Shieldhand Clan	A group of four guards	Greater than Average	Adequate	One Handed
35-45	An oaken staff			Gabaldon	Arch Druid Linnhe	Average	Splendid	One Handed
35-45	Sceptre			Sadris	Lasker the Fool	Average	Adequate	One Handed
35-45	Sceptre with a dead bat hanging from it	2		Nepeth	Zarkan	Average	Good	One Handed
45-55	a staff of protection			Iceforge Clan Forge	Hetdus	Greater than Average	Splendid	One Handed
45-55	An iron-shod staff			Knights Retreat	Marquis Jush the Retreat commander	Greater than Average	Good	Two Handed
45-55	Sceptre of Fools			Sadris	Lasker the Fool	Average	Fine	One Handed
45-55	Short Staff			Mt. Kresh	Mt. Kresh	Average	Splendid	One Handed
45-55	White Iron Stick			Ravel	Zernak	Average	Splendid	One Handed
55-65	Bo			Zhamarr	Veteran warrior of the Cold Hand Clan	Average	Adequate	Two Handed
55-65	Carved Staff	3		Issla village	Lizard King	Average	Very Good	One Handed
55-65	The Staff of Azakath			Mt._Kresh	Archpriest	?	?	Two handed
55-65	The Staff of Tarran			Iceforge Clan Forge	Hetdus, the head cleric	Greater than Average	Nearly Perfect	One Handed
65-85	Chain Staff			Varies	Design documents	Greater than Average	Nearly Perfect	Two Handed
65-85	Tetsubo	4		Zhamarr	Veteran of the Cold Hand Clan	Average	Poor	Two Handed

Two handed axe

Rating: A	Attack Type: Chop
Fast for:	Viable for: Ranger
Uniques: Great Mithril Axe, Rakar

• Pros: Reasonably common high ends, very nice damage, best damaging non-unique in the game
• Cons: Slow to raise, especially at low skills, heavy.
• High End Choices: Crescent does very good damage, as does Mighty Battleaxe. The two uniques are roughly the same as these two. The top 4 axes are all roughly the same.

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.
• 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	Bronze Axe			Ilderia	Ilderia	Greater than Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
45-55	nice elvish axe			Oblivios	Dafyd	Greater than Average	Poor	Two Handed
45-55	Woodsmans Axe			Music Man	Music Man Quest	Greater than Average	Poor	Two Handed
55-65	A great steel axe			Zombie Miners	A dwarven zombie leader	Average	Adequate	Two Handed
55-65	a sharp chrinspinx			Redcliff on Infidian	Lazy Talding the mischievous	Average	Poor	One/Two Handed
55-65	A steel battleaxe			Felgands Training Camp	Giledur, the adept axeman	Greater than Average	Fine	Two Handed
55-65	a two-handed axe			Iceforge Clan Forge	Doria, a rather bulky guard	Average	Very Poor	Two Handed
55-65	A woodsmans axe			Shipyard	Crowlen, an evil-looking sailor	Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
55-65	Wicked Half-moon Bladed Axe			Various	Carcera	Greater than Average	Fine	Two Handed
65-85	A great mithril axe	6		Zombie Miners	A dwarven zombie leader	Greater than Average	Fine	Two Handed
65-85	Crescent	5	14	Rune	The Ordainer of the Silver Circle	Greater than Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
65-85	Huge Battleaxe			Steading	Housecarl	Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
65-85	Mighty Battleaxe	5	15	Chaos Tower	Chaos Warrior	Average	Very Poor	Two Handed

Two handed sword

Rating: A-	Attack Type: Slash
Fast for:	Viable for: Paladin, Ranger, Non Entities
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. Shadow sword does exceptionally good damage, and Powersword isn’t much worse.

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 from Fort Vaugn, Powersword from Asvyan’s Domain.

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	A large steel sword			Nepeth	Nepeth Captain	Average	Good	Two Handed
45-55	a rusted two-handed sword			Battlefield	An undead Knight	Average	Adequate	One Handed
45-55	An iron greatsword			Felgands Training Camp	Andredes, the adept swordsman	Greater than Average	Good	Two Handed
45-55	An outstanding sword	5	15	Brunswik	A restful-looking guard	Greater than Average	Fine	Two Handed
45-55	Stone-cutter Sword			Giant Conference	Giants Conference	Greater than Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
45-55	Sword of Frost			Giant Conference	Giants Conference	Greater than Average	Serviceable	Two Handed
55-65	Large Sword			Steading	Frost Giant	Average	Fine	Two Handed
65-85	A steel greatsword			Felgands 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
85-100	The Shadow Sword	5	16	Chaos Tower	Razar	Average	Fine	Two Handed
85-100	Two-Handed Powersword	5	16	Asyvans Domain	Asyvans Temple	Average	Nearly Perfect	Two Handed