More diversity for throwing axes

[Rebelyell]

at last some good sugestion

[Gurnisson]

Need diversity!

[Gurnisson]

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[Gurnisson]

Well, doesn't seem like the devs/balancers are interested. Locking

[Gurnisson]

Still a valid suggestion 1 year after. Franciscas and the regular throwing axes are still barely used.

[Tydeus]

I made a thread about this a while ago, just need to iron out some of the finer details.

[Thomek]

snowflakes and the other shurikens are also barely used.. to make a shameless, but still true statement

[Kafein]

snowflakes and the other shurikens are also barely used.. to make a shameless, but still true statement

I have 6 PT. I once thrown one snowflake at Khorin and he said that, from max health (also he had his ninja armor) he dropped down to a fully black lifebar, but he was still alive. A body shot of course. Those low damage cut throwing toys vary wildly in damage depending on the target's armor rating.

[Shaksie]

I'd like a long throwing axe which does almighty cut damage and is plausible in melee but you only carry say, 2 and it requires high power throw.

[Joseph Porta]

I think the diversity is there, it's just that the gap between an item being usefull and an item being crap is very small..

[Thomek]

I have 6 PT. I once thrown one snowflake at Khorin and he said that, from max health (also he had his ninja armor) he dropped down to a fully black lifebar, but he was still alive. A body shot of course. Those low damage cut throwing toys vary wildly in damage depending on the target's armor rating.

Funny, because Khorin plays WITHOUT a healthbar. *but you are right, target armor rating means everything in the case of snowflakes.

[Phew]

I say just increase Francisca ammo count to 5 and Throwing Axe/Javelin ammo count to 4. Up weight of both accordingly.

You might start to see these lower-tier weapons on the battlefield with this change. I'd still use Heavy Throwing Axes, but I generally like to toss them early in the fight to get them out of my inventory (so they don't slow me down), although I keep the last one in 1h mode as my shieldbreaker (+3 heavy throwing axes have a surprisingly good 1h mode; 36 cut).

[Rumblood]

See patch notes. Ammo count for Heavy Throwing decreased to 2, Francisca raised to 4. Yay diversity! (the damage adjustment did not justify the loss of an Axe fyi)

[Tydeus]

See patch notes. Ammo count for Heavy Throwing decreased to 2, Francisca raised to 4. Yay diversity! (the damage adjustment did not justify the loss of an Axe fyi)

The thing is though, Heavy Throwing Axes were already used 10 times(not an exaggeration) more than franciscas or normal throwing axes, according to the December usage statistics. It may need more damage, we'll have to see.

[Gurnisson]

Though you did it quite different then what I would expect, you finally created some diversity! Thanks!