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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tetrasodium" data-source="post: 7934899" data-attributes="member: 93670">The  important ones were BPS & silver. adamantine was pretty much stone/iron golem & similar, it meant that you needed to hit it like a truck (ie crit fishers, certain rogues who could backstab constructs, power attack, & things like the stuff described in <a href="https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?210521-Optimizing-melee-damage-general" target="_blank">this thread</a> that melee types optimized for)*.  If you didn't have the ability to hit like a truck or bypass dr then you  were doing nothing & to be honest that was a big part of the threat behind those creatures rather than just having over nine thousand hp.   With that said though... this is the important reason adamantine weapons were desired[ATTACH=full]119170[/ATTACH]Cold iron was for fey but they were not the normal sort of thing you need to fight & you've probably done something wrong if you pissed off the few & mostly low CR fey in the MM or cared about the DR they had.  It meant they could mostly ignore you & be whimsy at low levels. If your campaign was big on killing fey then you probably should find a cold iron weapon..  if it's not you probably don't need one.Holy was more than you make it out to be[ATTACH=full]119171[/ATTACH]good aligned weapons were mainly needed for powerful fiends & similar.  Holy was the +2d6 version of thisor using one of these[ATTACH=full]119175[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]119174[/ATTACH]Of course powerful demons also had similar hit like a truck & see what I said about doing so<a href="https://forums.giantitp.com/showthread.php?210521-Optimizing-melee-damage-general" target="_blank">+linked</a> above in adamantine if you don't have something to bypass dr, which is what made them hard rather than just a four zillion hp slog without tools to nerf them & bypass their dr because rather than just throwing you for a loop you were fighting them very often.That was the reason eberron introduced[ATTACH=full]119172[/ATTACH]and[ATTACH=full]119173[/ATTACH]daelkyr are basically a vaguely defined & inclusive catchall for aberrations which made sense given that ECS was published after he various monster manuals.*5e still has feats for things like that like power attack & charger, just some of them (ie charger) are pretty useless because they conflict with the action economy & the situations they used to be made for no longer exist hitting anything for half of x+stat for 3 attacks in a row over is less than hitting it for half of 3x+stat in one attack & the big hit has worse odds to boot.</blockquote>

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