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In this section we'll go over weapons and how the different effects tied to them effect combat. All weapons come with a base critical strike chance, and depending on the weapon will change how much your damage is multiplied on a critical hit. Also 2 handed weapons get a twice the bonus to damage from strength and other damage bonuses.

There are 3 basic damage types assigned to any given weapon. They are slashing, bludgeon, and piercing. Now what this basically means is that if a monster is strong vs one or more of these types you will do only half damage against them. An example would be Zombies (and any corporeal undead) are resistant against slashing and piercing, so if you use a Sword, Dagger or a Spear you'll be doing half damage. But if you where to use say, a Club for instance you would do full damage. There is no variation in how much something will be resistant to, and no way to bypass that resistance as it is a direct modifier (invisible though) on each weapon its self which causes the penalty. However each weapon does note which damage type it is directly on its base stats.

As stated above all weapons have a critical strike chance, and depending on the kind of weapon your using is the effect that critical strike has and how often it can occur. Generally all weapons have a 5% chance for x4 damage, where as blades (swords/knifes) have a 15% chance of x2 damage. a Weapon modifier of "keen" will double the chance on the weapon. If you are dual wielding the critical strike chances do not stack, as the game alternates which weapon is used per swing.

Some bows (not crossbows) come with a base stat called Might. Might is a stat that determines how much of your strength bonus you can use toward damage dealt. With out a Might displayed you cannot use your strength to aid ranged damage, and will have to obtain damage elsewhere, such as fire damage from arrows. It should also be noticed that while dexterity is your primary stat for AR with Bows and Crossbows, it will not factor into the damage you can do with one, however its still important to land shots and is recommended as your primary stat if you choose to play a ranged character.

There are none! Well ok there are, but its all been standardized across all characters. All weapons take 15 frames (25 = 1 second) in total per attack animation. With the improved initiative skill (20% IAS maxed) that is reduced to 12 frames for everyone. What this basically comes down to is, if you want to play a fighter it doesn't matter what character you pick or what weapon you use as far as speed is concerned. If you want to look like the cLoD necromancer and use a Pike, go right on ahead it'll work just fine.

Below are tables of all the melee and ranged weapons base stats. All items have no durability and thus do not need to be repaired.

GC	Weapon	Type	Damage	Crit. Chance	Modifier	Reach
4	Dagger	Pierce	40-50	15%	x2	1
4	Kriss	Pierce	40-50	15%	x2	1
6	Short Sword	Slash	40-55	15%	x2	1
6	Scimitar	Slash	40-55	15%	x2	1
8	Falchion	Slash	40-60	15%	x2	1
8	Broad Sword	Slash	40-60	15%	x2	2
10	Long Sword	Slash	40-65	15%	x2	2
20	Bastard Sword	Slash	80-110	15%	x2	3
26	Great Sword	Slash	90-120	15%	x2	3

GC	Weapon	Type	Damage	Crit. Chance	Modifier	Reach
8	Battle Axe	Slash	40-60	5%	x4	1
10	Cleaver	Slash	40-65	5%	x4	2
20	Double Axe	Slash	80-110	5%	x4	3
20	Broad Axe	Slash	80-110	5%	x4	3
24	Great Axe	Slash	80-120	5%	x4	3

GC	Weapon	Type	Damage	Crit. Chance	Modifier	Reach
6	Spiked Club	Blunt	40-60	5%	x2	1
8	Mace	Blunt	40-65	5%	x2	1
8	Morningstar	Blunt	40-65	5%	x2	2
10	War Hammer	Blunt	40-70	5%	x2	2
24	Maul	Blunt	80-120	5%	x2	3
8	Quarterstaff	Blunt	80-100	5%	x2	3
16	Shillelagh	Blunt	80-100	5%	x2	4
24	Mage Staff	Blunt	80-100	5%	x2	3
26	Totemic Staff	Blunt	80-100	5%	x2	4

GC	Weapon	Type	Damage	Crit. Chance	Modifier	Reach
18	Scythe	Slash	90-100	5%	x4	4
20	Lochaber Axe	Slash	80-110	5%	x4	4
20	Halberd	Slash	80-110	5%	x4	4

GC	Weapon	Type	Damage	Crit. Chance	Modifier	Reach
16	Long Spear	Pierce	80-100	5%	x4	6
16	Trident	Pierce	80-100	5%	x4	5
18	Ranseur	Pierce	90-100	5%	x4	6
16	Lance	Pierce	80-100	5%	x4	6

GC	Weapon	Type	Damage	Crit. Chance	Modifier	Reach
12	Short Spear	Pierce	40-50	5%	x3	3
16	Harpoon	Pierce	45-50	5%	x3	3
20	Glaive	Pierce	40-55	5%	x3	3

GC	Weapon	Damage	Crit. Chance	Modifier	Might
12	Short Bow	40-55	5%	x4	0
16	Long Bow	40-60	5%	x4	0
18	Composite, Short	40-55	5%	x4	3
26	Composite, Long	40-60	5%	x4	5
8	Crossbow, Light	40-60	10%	x4	-
10	Crossbow, Heavy	40-65	10%	x4	-
12	Crossbow, Repeating	40-55	10%	x4	-