Vorpal
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| It inflicts extra damage upon your enemies. |
Vorpal is a brand which any weapon may have. Melee weapons with the vorpal brand do extra damage of at least 1 and up to 33% each hit, averaging +16.6%. Ranged weapons do an average of 20% more damage. This bonus is applied after AC, so it has an equal effect for both fast and slow weapons.
Vorpal weapons are inferior damage-wise to most other brands, but versatile because nothing can resist the extra damage.
History
- In 0.30, this brand was replaced with the heavy brand.
- Prior to 0.25, different types of weapons used different descriptors based on the type of damage they inflicted ("Piercing", "Chopping", "Slicing", "Crushing", "Velocity", etc.).
- Prior to 0.16, this brand was called "stabbing" on short blades.
- Prior to 0.13, this brand increased your damage between 0% and 25% each hit, averaging 12.5%.
| Brands | ||
|---|---|---|
| Melee weapons | General | Antimagic • Chaos • Distortion • Draining • Electrocution • Flaming • Freezing • Heavy • Holy wrath • Pain • Protection • Reaching • Spectral • Speed • Vampiric • Venom |
| Weapon type | Devious • Valour • Concussion • Sundering • Entangling • Rebuke | |
| Artefact | Curare • Deathbane • Dragon slaying • Reaping • Silver | |
| Launchers | Antimagic • Chaos • Draining • Electrocution • Flaming • Freezing • Heavy • Holy wrath • Penetration • Speed | |
| Throwing weapons | Atropa • Curare • Datura • Disjunction • Poisoned • Silver | |