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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Spatzimaus" data-source="post: 1307161" data-attributes="member: 3051">No, you're confusing the numbers he gave for "increasing weapon size" with those for "improving to an exotic weapon".  The step size isn't the same; you get far more benefit out of a size increase, once you get past Medium.If a martial weapon does 1d8 damage (like a longsword), the exotic version should do 1d10 damage (like a bastard sword).  So, your weapon could be 1d10/1d10 20x2 as an exotic weapon, although even that is questionable, since you're increasing the damage of BOTH heads.  Jumping from 1d10 to either 1d12 or 2d6 would require another increase, and you don't have anything left to sacrifice.  A Greatsword isn't one step above a longsword, it's two.Also, using the quarterstaff as your baseline isn't a good idea.  It's the exception to the rule in too many ways (as the only non-exotic double weapon), and existed long before the double-weapon rules did.  Compare any weapon you come up with to the other double weapons (two-bladed sword, double axe, dire flail, gnome hooked hammer, dwarven urgrosh)</blockquote>