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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 20% more damage.

Tips & Tricks

This brand works best on high-damage weapons, since the damage is multiplicative.
Vorpal weapons are inferior damage-wise to most other brands, but versatile because nothing can resist the extra damage.

History

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

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-'''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 20% more damage. There is a 15.8% chance to brand a melee weapon and a 19% chance to brand a ranged weapon with vorpal when a [[scroll of brand weapon]] is used on a non-artifact weapon. This chance increases if the weapon already has a brand other than vorpal.
+'''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 20% more damage.
 == Tips & Tricks ==