Favorite throwing weapon poll!
booinyoureyes
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Sup fools!
Been thinking of trying out some new weapons, and I've never built a character around throwing weapons. Thinking about a Fighter/Thief with darts! Are darts any good? Anyone use them regularly on a warrior class?
Got me thinking, what are everyone's favorite throwing weapon?
Note: This is your favorite, not necessarily the *best*. So vote for either what you find the coolest or what you think is the most powerful/effective depending on what you value as a player.
Also please state your favorite examples of the weapon you choose (or others) to help a brother out in choosing which to master!
Been thinking of trying out some new weapons, and I've never built a character around throwing weapons. Thinking about a Fighter/Thief with darts! Are darts any good? Anyone use them regularly on a warrior class?
Got me thinking, what are everyone's favorite throwing weapon?
Note: This is your favorite, not necessarily the *best*. So vote for either what you find the coolest or what you think is the most powerful/effective depending on what you value as a player.
Also please state your favorite examples of the weapon you choose (or others) to help a brother out in choosing which to master!
- Favorite throwing weapon poll!57 votes
- Darts (ninja style)17.54%
- Daggers (I love that scene in Men in Tights)29.82%
- Axes (geronimo!)24.56%
- Hammer (Mjolnir smite thee)14.04%
- Just show me the results (this option does NOT "mean all of the above")14.04%
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Second choice I would suggest throwing axes because you'll find a good variety of them and also powerful melee axes, like the vorpal one etc.
third choice suggestion throwing hammers because of the poor variety (but Dwarven Thrower rocks!) and the possibility to use Runehammer and Crom Faeyr in melee.
I certainly did not see Men in Tights, but Firetooth+3 is the best throwing dagger in the game. It sets your APR to 2, adds STR damage, it deals 2d4+3 and hits as +3. Then, if you do the search for tje Gong (Limited Wish quest) you can find a Throwing Dagger+2 in early SoA.
@Metalloman melee daggers are also cool, but they deal low damage if you don't have much STR. Anyway the Pixie Prick+3 is nice since target has to save vs death or sleep for 2 rounds, and you can get that in early game.
The bad thing is that the only Throwing Hammer in the game is Dwarven-only and that will restrict him other races if he does not want go use it, but in the EE they've added a nicr new Throwing Hammer, an enchanted Brick+2 :P
Melee hammers are very good indeed.
Darts are nice, much more if you are an Assasain, for 3 poisoning APR
For melee I recommend THS, since with thief's HLAs you can use Carsomyr+5
"HE'S GOOD WITH HIS DAGGERS"
I met my girlfriend's parents for the first time (in person) this past New Years when I went to visit for a week. We were gonna watch the movie the second night, and they asked me to suggest one of their DVDs. I chose Men in Tights, and her dad immediately laughs and goes "you can marry my daughter".
I love that movie so much.
As I mentioned in other topics, he is raging with envy about everyone who can do something better than him. That goes mostly for mages - Jester charname wanted to be a mage, but wasn't smart enough (or so Gorion said, and he was obviously lying because he was jealous of Jester charname's amazing arcane talent and wanted to hold him down). To look better and mightier when fighting mages, Jester crafted a throwing dagger that would make mages look worse. "The Long Goodbye" is a throwing dagger with a chance to cast Miscast Magic or do acid damage on hit (25 %). Once the pompous mage (and really, aren't they all pompous, arrogant jerks who only cast spells to remind the jester of his failure to become a mage?!) is hit, he can't brag with his so-called "talent" anymore - his spells fail or are interrupted, and the jester stands by and mocks the mage while watching him slowly die.
Mechanically, I also like darts in BG1 because there is a variety of magical versions. Axes would be nice, but no magical ones (except very late game) keeps me from using them.
@metalloman I'm ashamed to say that I've never had the Dwarf Thrower since I didn't even know it existed until recently (Would love if it actually threw dwarves). I'm gonna try it out on my planned run with a Dwarven Defender!
@kidcarnival http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7mp2p_robin-hood-men-in-tights-scarlet-o_fun
XD
Yaga Shura gonna get dwarfed
I actually like The Brick quite a bit. In one of my playthroughs I have Anomen using it and it is pretty much just as good as his sling (slings are kinda sorta a throwing weapon too by the way). Even without the added effects of the hammer it does only a little less damage than a sling +2 with bullets +2. With the added effects (1d12 magical damage and 1 round of 100% spell failure unless a save vs. spells is made) it is an amazing weapon. It is really too bad that it causes a 10% chance of wild surge on everyone in the area (that is twice the chance of surging a wild mage has). Also too bad it is only a +2 weapon, but it is possibly the most devastating +2 weapon in the game.
Everything they added to the game requires you to pick up the new NPCs. Sigh.
You wrote Mjølner wrong btw. Shame on you. Damn foreign heathens...
As for my opinion on darts...
(Also found somewhere in the meme thread.)