Category:Weapons

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Name	Type	Finesse	Intuitive Attack	Size	Dam Type	Base Dam	Crit Range	Crit Mult	Other
Dagger	Simple/D/M/R/W	Y	Y	Tiny	P	1d4	19-20	x2	Intuitive Attack & Rapier Wit Not usable by large characters
Katar	Exotic/Rogue	Y		Tiny	P	1d4	18-20	x2	Not usable by large characters
Sai	Exotic/Monk	Y		Tiny	B	2d4	19-20	x2	Not usable by large characters
Kukri	Exotic/Rogue	Y		Tiny	S	1d4	18-20	x2	Not usable by large characters
Sap	Exotic/Rogue	Y		Small	B	1d4	18-20	x2	Finesse weapon for all characters
Assassin Dagger	Exotic/Poison	Y		Tiny	P	1d4	17-20	x1	No WoC Not usable by large characters
Light Mace	Simple/Rogue	Y	Y	Small	B	1d6	19-20	x3	Intuitive Attack
Sickle	Simple/Druid	Y	Y	Small	S	1d6	19-20	x3	Intuitive Attack
Goad	Martial/Monk	Y	Y	Small	P	1d6	20	x2	Intuitive Attack Monk weapon
Handaxe	Martial/M/R	Y		Small	S	1d6	20	x4
Light Hammer	Martial	Y		Small	B	1d6	20	x4
Light Pick	Martial	Y		Small	P	1d6	20	x4
Short Sword	Martial/Rogue	Y		Small	P	1d6	19-20	x3
Kama	Exotic/Monk	Y	Y	Small	S	1d6	20	x2	Intuitive Attack Monk weapon
Nunchaku	Exotic/Monk	Y	Y	Small	B	1d6	20	x2	Intuitive Attack Monk weapon
Whip	Exotic	Y		Small	S	2d4	18-20	x2
Wind Fire Wheel	Exotic/Monk	Y		Small	S	2d4	19-20	x2
Club	Simple/D/M/R/W		Y	Medium	B	1d8	19-20	x2	Intuitive Attack
Heavy Mace	Simple/Rogue		Y	Medium	B	1d8	19-20	x3	Intuitive Attack
Morningstar	Simple/Rogue			Medium	P	1d8	19-20	x3
Battleaxe	Martial			Medium	S	1d8	20	x4
Heavy Pick	Martial			Medium	P	1d8	20	x4
Light Flail	Martial			Medium	B	1d8	18-20	x2
Longsword	Martial/Elf			Medium	S	1d8	19-20	x3
Rapier	Martial/Elf/R	Y		Medium	P	1d8	18-20	x2	Rapier Wit Finesse weapon for both Medium and Large characters
Scimitar	Martial/Druid		Y	Medium	S	1d8	18-20	x2	Intuitive Attack
Warhammer	Martial			Medium	B	1d8	20	x4
Bastard Sword	Exotic			Medium	S	2d8	19-20	x3
Dwarven Waraxe	Exotic			Medium	S	2d6	20	x4	Adds shield AC for Dwarven Defender characters based on their Con modifier up to +18 AC at a Con score of 46
Katana	Exotic	Y		Medium	S	2d8	18-20	x2	Finesse weapon for both Medium and Large characters
Spear	Simple/Druid		Y	Large	P	1d8	19-20	x2	Intuitive Attack
Quarterstaff	Simple/D/M/R/W		Y	Large	B	1d10	20	x2	Intuitive Attack Monk weapon (21+) Does NOT receive HG improved two handed damage bonus when used 2H
Falchion	Martial			Large	S	1d10	18-20	x2
Greataxe	Martial			Large	S	1d10	20	x4
Greatsword	Martial			Large	S	1d10	19-20	x3
Halberd	Martial			Large	P	1d10	19-20	x3
Heavy Flail	Martial			Large	B	1d10	18-20	x2
Maul	Martial			Large	B	1d10	20	x4
Trident	Martial			Large	P	1d10	20	x4
Scythe	Exotic			Large	S	2d8	20	x4
Dire Mace	Exotic/Double			Large	B	2d6	19-20	x3
Double Axe	Exotic/Double			Large	S	2d6	19-20	x3
Double Scimitar	Exotic/Double			Large	S	2d6	18-20	x2
Two-Bladed Sword	Exotic/Double			Large	S	2d6	19-20	x3
Mercurial Greatsword	Exotic			Huge	S	1d12	20	x4	Only usable by large characters Requires 2H to use
Lance	Exotic			Huge	P	1d12	20	x4	Only usable by large characters Requires 2H to use
Unarmed	Unarmed	Y		-	B*	1d6**	20	x2	* Slashing and Piercing damage types are available on specific gloves ** Base damage increases with number of Monk levels reaching 1-20 at Monk 20 Finesse weapon for all characters
Dart	Simple/D/R	Y		Tiny/Ranged	P	1d4	20	x2	mighty, Brutal Throw Not usable by large characters
Throwing Axe	Martial	Y		Small/Ranged	S	1d6	20	x3	mighty, Brutal Throw
Shuriken	Exotic/Monk	Y	Y	Tiny/Ranged	P	1d3	20	x3	Intuitive Attack Monk weapon (21+) Not usable by large characters
Sling	Simple/D/M/R	Y		Ranged	B	1d4	20	x2	Divine Slingers add in significant damage scaling (physical, elemental and exotic) based on character level when using this weapon
Light Crossbow	Simple/M/R/W	Y		Ranged	P	1d8	19-20	x2	Extra attacks Gives Shield AC for Gnomish Inventor characters Additional damage and scaling based on Gnomish Inventor levels in addition to base bolt damage
Heavy Crossbow	Simple/M/R/W	Y		Ranged	P	1d10	19-20	x2	Extra attacks Gives Shield AC for Gnomish Inventor characters Additional damage and scaling based on Gnomish Inventor levels in addition to base bolt damage
Shortbow	Martial/Elf/R	Y		Ranged	P	1d6	20	x3	See note Extra attacks, +6 shield AC & damage scaling (elemental damage only) with character (Ranger) level (Legendary Ranger shortbows only)
Longbow	Martial/Elf	Y		Ranged	P	1d8	20	x3	Extra attacks & damage scaling (elemental or exotic depending on bow used) with character (Arcane Archer) level (Legendary Arcane Archer longbows only)

Notes

For simplicity, the abbreviations used to show required proficiencies are: D: Druid, M: Monk, R: Rogue, W: Wizard, Poison: Use Poison feat.

Weapon feats

• Weapon Finesse: Small size creatures can finesse all small and tiny sized weapons.
  
• Medium size creatures can finesse all tiny and small weapons and the two medium weapons: rapier and katana. Large sized creatures can finesse any medium or small weapon (they cannot hold tiny weapons).
• Intuitive Attack: Allows you to use your Wisdom modifier for Club, Dagger, Goad, Heavy Mace, Kama, Light Mace, Nunchaku, Quarterstaff, Scimitar, Shuriken, Sickle and Spear. Requires BAB of +3 and at least 13 Wisdom. Probably the most effective use for this feat is when used on a Lifethreader character and possibly for an alt weapon for a Zen Ranger.
• Rapier Wit: Prerequisites: Base Attack Bonus +3, 13+ Charisma. Allows you to use your Charisma modifier to determine Rapier/Dagger AB. Potentially useful for a 'battle bard' or a smiting character.
• Brutal Throw: Allows you to use your Strength modifier for Dart and Throwing Axe, can be handy if you have a Str based character with a spare feat and want to have a reasonable chance of hitting things with these ranged weapons, the Mighty property will limit the Str add you get to damage though so it will always be less than a melee weapon.

Weapon Specific details

• All crossbows (light and heavy) add an extra 2 attacks per round. If a large creature equips anything in their offhand this bonus is lost, unless they are a Barbarian with shapestrong rage.
• The CEP weapons goad and nunchaku are Monk weapons similar to kamas. Quarterstaff and Shuriken are also monk weapons for characters with 21 or more Monk levels. They use the -3 attack progression and flurry of blows may be used with them.
• The whip, morningstar, and light flail cannot be used in the off hand, the reason for this being that there was no off hand animation added to the game.
• The dwarven waraxe will grant a shield AC equal to CON modifier (up to a maximum of +18) when wielded by a Dwarven Defender. Shield AC does not stack. This change allows an option to build dual or axe-flag wielding str tanks with quite respectable ACs.
• Assassin Daggers have extended critical range (17-20/x1) but this does not stack with the WM Ki Critical ability. They still make great weapons for non-WM Assassins. If you can find an item with the Overwhelming Critical Assassin Dagger Feat on (or be able to take this Feat in your build) you will be able to achieve a final critical range of 8-20 with this weapon maximizing your chances of inflicting a Mortal Strike. The Devastating Critical feat will change the multiplier from x1 to x2, whilst this may not sound a lot it can significantly improve your damage output on non critical immune creatures as you will be achieving critical hits about 60% of the time.

Assorted notes

• Wielding a weapon two-handed grants a multiplicative bonus of 20% to all damage type, this is in addition to the 'vanilla' NWN "The advantage of using a two-handed weapon is having the strength modifier (if positive) increased 50% (rounded down) before being added to damage inflicted by the weapon."
  • The bonus for doing so while being oversized and using a shield offhand has changed to 10% (possible with Barbarians)
  • Quarterstaffs don't qualify for this bonus.
• Large sized creatures such as Minotaurs, Stingers, Wemics, etc. cannot dual-wield most large weapons such as scythes, nor do they receive a 2h str bonus for using them without a shield as medium size creatures do. Spears and tridents may be dual wielded by large size creatures. They also cannot use tiny weapons, including the ranged items shuriken/darts (have you ever tried fighting with or throwing a pin?).
• The huge weapons Mercurial Greatsword and Lance can only be wielded by large characters and even then only in 2h mode.
• Several of the CEP weapons have actual proficiencies that do not match what is shown in the game descriptions. All effort has been made to list the correct proficiencies above.
• The best weapon to use for damage output depends to some extent on the type of character you are making. For a tier 1 character type you are better off using a high threat range (18-20 base) with a lower multiplier as you will hit more frequently and thus do more critical hits, for a non tier 1 build you may be better off using a lower threat range but higher multiplier weapon as when you land a critical hit it will do more damage.
• The following CEP weapons are not currently used: Trident_1H, Mercurial Longsword, and Maug Double Sword.
• Some monsters have the ability to slag items, including melee weapons unless they are non-metal or specifically immune, this turns the weapon into a small unusable item in your inventory which, as an immortal, you will either need to take to Zerial or use a Scroll of the Miser to recover. All current ranged weapons and ammo are immune to this, as are unarmed monks (this only applies to the weapon, not the armor or shield). Unslaggable melee weapons are: Club, Nunchaku, Quarterstaff, Sap, and Whip. Other creatures have the ability to disarm weapons (including ranged bows, slings, etc) this will create an item in your inventory that cannot be used until the combat has ended.
• There are several set/random items that grant Overwhelming and/or Devastating critical for specific weapon(s), these can save multiple feats on a build (if you can fit them into your gear set-up) whilst still maximising damage output against creatures that are not immune to critical hits, examples being Plate of the Legendary Master (OC/DC Greataxe and Throwing Axe), Graz'zt's Abyssal Helm (OC/DC Spear), Stygian Razor (OC/DC Katana) and the favourite of many a Shifter tank The Sign of Orcus (OC/DC Unarmed) as this affects ALL weapons in shifted forms.
• Both Overwhelming and Devastating critical can appear as added green properties on random loot and there are BUR level augments that give both feats for a weapon that can be very useful especially when present on a usable item (they can not be stripped and reused).

Notable updates

• UPDATE 2016-03-17::Sai {B} and Wind Fire Wheel {S} no longer have a parry bonus, but instead have 2d4 base damage. The double damage type weapons have been modified to only do only a single damage as this was making them unbalanced. Weapon damage was normalized all over - there aren't really bad and good weapons anymore, however from a pure damage point of view the Katana, Bastard Sword and Scythe have both the best maximum (16) and average (8-10) base damage per hit.

See Also

• Set Weapons - Arcane Archer Longbows, Monk Gloves, Ranger Shortbows
• See also A guide to crafting weapons

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