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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Frostmarrow" data-source="post: 1417393" data-attributes="member: 1122">I'm officially impressed, Thought Bubble, but no - it didn't help. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Right, so I've been thinking about the iterative attacks. -What Everquest refers to as Weapon Delay. First we must pretend to agree on a couple of points:* The greatsword is the best weapon there is. All characters who can should use greatsword to the exclusion of all else.* A PC fighter should be a master of the greatsword at high levels.Now if we say that the Weapon Delay is 6 for a greatsword we effectively nerf all those 20th level fighter-types with greatsword. That's not good since that would put the entire CR-system out of whack.* Sometimes players don't go with the greatsword for flavor reasons. For this they are penalised with lower damage output.This means that if any changes should be made it's the rest of the weapons that need to become better. Not the greatsword that needs to become worse. Ergo, greatsword has a Weapon Delay of 5. Other weapons should have lower weapon delays than that.This won't unbalance things in the same way, as it can be argued that if the greatsword is so much better anyway, people in the world would know about this and only greatswords would be used. At least by the NPCs. Cityguards, dwarves, rogues, harlots. They would all use greatswords. So, if the rest of the weapons become a little bit better it will only bring (or more explain the) versimillitude to the choice of weapons.</blockquote>

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