Shared Weapon Feats, Monk Weapons, and Balance Changes

[DM Hawk]

Hail Cormyrians!

We've had a few questions recently about which weapons share the same feats from our server update last September.

This post is just to extract that part of the server update notes to help make it easier to find.

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Additional Weapon Feat Changes

The following items benefit from Shared Weapon Feats:
Club - Shared with Fashion Accessories, Drinking Mugs, and more
Dagger - Shared with Assassin Dagger
Quarterstaff - Shared with Magic Staff and Two Handed Tools
Spear - Shared with One Handed Spear
Trident - Shared with One Handed Trident

The following items now act as Monk Weapons, similar to the Kama:
Katar
Nunchaku
Sai
Wind Fire Wheel

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Weapon Balance Changes
As it is now possible to take combat feats for these weapons, we saw some weapons overshadowing their base game counterparts especially in certain builds. Other weapon types have been underperforming, and the intention behind these changes is to bring these outliers into more standard damage models for balance.

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Falchion
- Damage type changed from piercing/slashing to slashing

Goad
- Weapon proficiency changed from martial to simple

Heavy pick
- Damage die increased from 1d6 to 1d8
- Critical multiplier reduced from 20 x4 to 20 x3

Katar
- Damage die changed to 1d6 x2
- Piercing Monk Weapon

Lance
- Damage die increased to 1d8 x3
- Martial Weapon

Light pick
- Damage die increased from 1d4 to 1d6
- Critical multiplier reduced from 20 x4 to 20 x3

Mercurial Longsword
- Critical multiplier reduced from 20 x4 to 20 x3
- Damage Type changed to Slashing

Mercurial Greatsword
- Critical multiplier reduced from 20 x4 to 20 x3
- Damage Type changed to Slashing

Nunchaku
- Damage die changed to 1d6 x2
- Bludgeoning Monk Weapon

Sai
- Damage die changed to 1d6 x2
- Piercing Monk Weapon

Trident, One Handed
- Damage die changed to 1d6 19 x2

Wind Fire Wheel
- Damage die changed to 1d6 x2
- Slashing Monk Weapon

Beer Mug
- Damage type changed from piercing to bludgeoning
- Damage die reduced from 1d4 to 1d2

Fashion Accessory
- Critical multiplier increased from 20 x1 to 20 x2

Two Handed Tool
- Damage die increased to 1d6
- Critical multiplier increased from 20 x1 to 20 x2

Flowers
- Damage die reduced from 1d6 to 1d2

frc.proboards.com/post/373658/thread



Most of these items in game have had their descriptions changed to reflect this.








We're also aware that the Mecurial Weapons feats are overdue for a fix. We'll get to that soon.