cut vrs pierce/blunt

[Spa_geh_tea]

Is it possible to provide a damage penalty on prierce and blunt vrs lighter armor?

Currently the use of cut vrs light armor has no advantage to the blunt pierce counterparts of equivalent damage. It would be nice to have that distinction be very obvious ingame and a good use of balance between damage types.

[Zanze]

The damage penalty is the fact that blunt and pierce already do less base damage than cut weapons.

Don't forget to take into account things like length, speed, shield breaking,and unbalanced when comparing to other weapons.

[rustyspoon]

Due to the DRASTIC penalties that cut has vs armor, blunt/pierce does far more damage as armor scales up. Also, blunt and pierce weapons don't do much less damage than cut as it is. If you're only going to carry 1 weapon, you're better off with a blunt/pierce one.

I've been wanting a system for a long time where different damage types are better/worse vs different types of armor. Gives a reason to take different gear.

[owens]

Keep in mind that cutting weapons (axes not included) are longer and faster making better dueling and all-rounders if you have the wpf or PS to deal solid hits. Blunt works really well with archers and fast chars that don't get kicked often and would bounce using swords they are very fast but short.

Pierce is its own niche as these weapons are very short and bounce more than they should. I don't use them. Against armour they are good if you get the overheads in and make the face a priority.

I have only mentioned 1H and think that its time we got some long piercing weapons that are good.

[Elmokki]

Spears are pretty great.

[owens]

not in ganks. Although putting a shield away is faster than trading to sword so spears are really multi faceted and flexible.