What's the fastest you've ever broken a weapon?

JumboWheat01

Mostly just for curiosity and laughs at our horrible luck with the RNG gods (or Beshaba's fault, whatever you fancy,) how fast have you ever broken a weapon?

I'll admit, there are times where I've never broken one until I replaced it with a magical weapon, but on my most recent playthrough, a half-orc Cleric of Lathander, I busted the mace I just bought on the very first fight in the game against one of those inept assassins. Shoddy iron indeed! Good thing I thought to put a point in clubs as well just in case this sort of thing happened.

I just didn't expect it to happen so quickly.

TheArtisan

Rats. I always lose at least one weapon to those damn rats because they take so many hits to kill. I just use the daggers and hammer you get around Candlekeep instead of risking the ones I actually want to use.

One time I lost both my long swords before leaving the keep. Go figure.

DevardKrown

Very first assassin as so many before

jackjack

I broke off a dagger in Shank, funnily enough.

DevardKrown

jackjack said:

I broke off a dagger in Shank, funnily enough.

the cleverer gives in.... clearly your dagger never had a Chance against Shank.

Southpaw

Nashkel, on Noober. No, really. Don't laugh. I had the screenshot somewhere...

Grum

This is why I like having Charnames who start off using quarterstaves (paladins for example can easily get ** in greatswords in BG1, let alone in BG2) and scimitars (several very good scimitars, and at the very least you can use Belm). The trick with the latter is to get the ninjato and wakazi. Both are very cheap in candlekeep, neither can break. You can also get a +1 ninjato very early by helping Dorn kill some bandits. You don't even need to take him into your party.

matrice

First hit right hand, 3rd or 4th hit left hand. on the assassin ofc

You feel the good time when you made every single quest you could (without fighting), and spended all your gold on weapon/armor for your npc that you didn't recruited yet ^^ so you cann't even buy a new weapon.

(and ofc you throwed your quaterstaff somwhere you don't remember cause you made the non battle quest in an old save 2 days ago)

Zilber

I've had rats break my two handed sword. That hurt a bit

Son_of_Imoen

In Candlekeep.

Kamigoroshi

Never. Clubs don't break.

The closest thing would be Skie who broke a nail while using a club.

Chnapy

I, too, have been foolish enough to try my knives against Shank. Nowadays I usually do the whole candlekeep part with the quarterstaff since there is no actual challenge and you ghet healed before leaving.

sarevok57

if I can go through candlekeep without breaking a weapon, then I did pretty good, I would say almost 50% of the time I would break a weapon in candlekeep, so what I do now is, if im a warrior class I will just use the quarterstaff that you are given with at the beginning of the game, or if my CHA is high enough, I will just aquire the dagger +1 so then I don't run into that problem

SirBatince

Ive had a keepered character with 5APR once for bg1.

...literally unplayable till I got a magic weapon.

Nimran

The first Tutor outside of the inn.

Skatan

I must be lucky then, I've never had a weapon break in Candlekeep.

Even when playing with a six man team, I've scarcely seen more than two weapons break before I replace them with magical ones. I always keep two of each (sometimes three for fighters) just in case, but very rarely have to replace broken ones.

BillyYank

In my current run, Minsc broke his two-hander in the gnoll fortress, switched to dual maces and immediately broke his off-hand weapon.
So the fastest for me was 1 round.

JumboWheat01

Artemius_I said:

Rats. I always lose at least one weapon to those damn rats because they take so many hits to kill. I just use the daggers and hammer you get around Candlekeep instead of risking the ones I actually want to use.

One time I lost both my long swords before leaving the keep. Go figure.

Zilber said:

I've had rats break my two handed sword. That hurt a bit

We need to send these rats out to fight the evils of the world, I swear.

rapsam2003

Broke the bastard sword I just bought from Winthrop on the rats. Then, I ended up using a warhammer I found in the priest's house. Strange how that didn't break. Damn rats.

Aerakar

In RL, rarely)) In BG never in Candlekeep that I can recall, but regularly and early in the surrounding environs. Wolves seem to have ironskin in my game, thus causing consistent weapon breakage. I always rush to replace those metal weapons ASAP (or as @Grum pointed out use quarterstaffs and fight w/o anxiety and extra reach, a win-win).

CaptRory

I'd point out that of you use range weapons they don't break. That tends to keep my weapon breakage to a minimum. Though yeah I've broken weapons on Carbos and Shanks and the Rats. Usually triggers a reload for me. XD

TheArtisan

Melee weapons: 1% chance of losing weapon
Ranged weapons: 100% chance of losing weapon

???
(I'm not being serious, btw)

MacHurto

Shank. Only once though. Would have sworn it was a ninjato, but I guess it was just a scimitar as I read eastern blades dont break

Francois42424

This new game of mine, this week... Candlekeep... buy scimitar, do the tutorial, weapon breaks on first strike. Because of price of scimitar I was gimped for a while. Was the more challenging game I played for a while (Now finished Nashkel so I'm okay).

Sids1188

I often just buy some throwing axes early on. Used in melee, I don't think they ever break (if they do, you have another 4 or so in the stack anyway, and each one is about the cost of a dagger).

As an added bonus, when you get to Beregost, you can buy enough +1 throwing axes for everyone in the party for about 100 gold (same average damage as a battleaxe +1). Apart from the dagger at the start, it has to be the easiest way to get magic weapons. Too bad you can't dual wield them.

Zilber

Sids1188 said:

I often just buy some throwing axes early on. Used in melee, I don't think they ever break (if they do, you have another 4 or so in the stack anyway, and each one is about the cost of a dagger).

As an added bonus, when you get to Beregost, you can buy enough +1 throwing axes for everyone in the party for about 100 gold (same average damage as a battleaxe +1). Apart from the dagger at the start, it has to be the easiest way to get magic weapons. Too bad you can't dual wield them.

I did buy the +1 axes, but had not yet thought about using regular throwing axes