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High quality vs magic weapons

Discussion in 'Icewind Dale (Classic)' started by Hayashi, Oct 16, 2001.

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    [​IMG] What's the difference between the two? For ex, I'm now at Vale of Shadows. I've picked up both a high quality longswrod (+1 THACO) and a magicl longsword (+1 THACO also). Will the high quality sword be able to damage monsters that can only be hit by magical weapons (due to the +1 THACO bonus?)
    Thx in advance.
     
    Hayashi, Oct 16, 2001
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    [​IMG] As long as it does not provide any magical damage (cold, fire or whatever), I do not think it will hurt monsters who are immune to everything but magic. I'm not sure on this though. Have never used high quality weapons.
     
    Mollusken, Oct 16, 2001
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    I haven't checked infinity explorer. But I've always guessed that the +1 magical are '+1 enchanment to hit'. Which means it can hit creatures that take magical +1 weapons to hit. Werewolves?

    I think the 'high-quality' sword is still a normal weapon, but it just has a +1 Thac0. Like the killsword is actually considered a +10 weapon to what it can hit (+10 enchanment), but actually lowers your Thac0 (as reported in-game on the 'record' page) by 30 points or something.
     
    ejsmith, Oct 16, 2001
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    yes the high quality weapons do not deal the magic damage for they are not magical :)

    You can't use them against monster which require, say +1 to hit.
     
    Invoker, Oct 16, 2001
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    Also, remember that magical weapons not only give +X to hit, but they also give +X to damage. That's something else to consider.
     
    Crawl, Oct 17, 2001
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    Bottom Line

    Normal Weapons: Kill Things
    High Quality Weapons: Kill Things better than normal weapons do.
    Magic: Kills Things the best.


    Simple
     
    Llandon, Oct 17, 2001
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