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Should the Greatsword be d12?
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<blockquote data-quote="Kzach" data-source="post: 4397441" data-attributes="member: 56189"><p>The bastard sword is also known as the hand and a half sword. It is meant to sit between a longsword and a greatsword. It is roughly a foot shorter than a greatsword and yet is fundamentally of the same design and wielded in much the same manner, so under no circumstances should it be doing more damage than the greatsword.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Again I'm not seeing how you come to this conclusion based on the evidence.</p><p></p><p>The evidence suggests that at d10 it's inferior to most other 2H weapons in most other circumstances. Upping it to d12, however, makes it superior in a limited set of circumstances, and yet still inferior in many.</p><p></p><p>This, at least to me, seems like it would balance the GS where it ought to be, rather than where it currently is; that being at the very bottom of the stack.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Err... falchion is high crit. So on a crit, it does an absolute minium of 10, not 8, and can beat the GS by up to 6 points.</p><p></p><p>Only once you get into multiple dice rolls does your statement have any effect whatsoever.</p><p></p><p>At 2W, you'd get 20 for the greatsword vs. 18-24 for the falchion. 3W is 30 vs. 24-32. 4W equals 40 vs. 32-40. It's only at 5W that you are guaranteed to do more damage than the falchion.</p><p></p><p>Of course, that all then falls apart at paragon and epic where the falchion is just far and away the superior choice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kzach, post: 4397441, member: 56189"] The bastard sword is also known as the hand and a half sword. It is meant to sit between a longsword and a greatsword. It is roughly a foot shorter than a greatsword and yet is fundamentally of the same design and wielded in much the same manner, so under no circumstances should it be doing more damage than the greatsword. Again I'm not seeing how you come to this conclusion based on the evidence. The evidence suggests that at d10 it's inferior to most other 2H weapons in most other circumstances. Upping it to d12, however, makes it superior in a limited set of circumstances, and yet still inferior in many. This, at least to me, seems like it would balance the GS where it ought to be, rather than where it currently is; that being at the very bottom of the stack. Err... falchion is high crit. So on a crit, it does an absolute minium of 10, not 8, and can beat the GS by up to 6 points. Only once you get into multiple dice rolls does your statement have any effect whatsoever. At 2W, you'd get 20 for the greatsword vs. 18-24 for the falchion. 3W is 30 vs. 24-32. 4W equals 40 vs. 32-40. It's only at 5W that you are guaranteed to do more damage than the falchion. Of course, that all then falls apart at paragon and epic where the falchion is just far and away the superior choice. [/QUOTE]
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