quelmotz

you all are getting off topic. What i want to change is the fact that slashing weps tear through BOTH mage armor and ranged armor. However, crushing weps arent even really effective enough on plate armor to be used. Dont get me started on the crappy stab weps that are "effective" on chain armor(which no one uses anyway since crush is too weak for people to think about defending against it). BTW if crush was to be upgraded, chain should also be upgraded to be as good as plate to stop crush from overpowering. It doesnt really matter so much about whether something is reality or not in RS. Its more important that the weps are treated equally. SO STOP saying that a slash in real life does more dmg than a crush/stab!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Runescape is FAR from real life seriously. Who can carry a few billion coins in their backpack? Who walks around with 28 swordfishes jabbing out of their backpack in all directions? How can a weapon be used for 5 years and not be dulled? How can a whip(string) be more powerful(in strength) than a solid sword made of metal??

so what if a slashing weapon is better than a crushing one? scimitars are still supremely overpowered. Also, maces and hammers dont do enough damage on plate armor to be used effectively.

exactly. this does not apply in runescape. its just a game so everything should be as fair as possible. and why cant a person have great str in runescape? right now about 68500+ ppl have 99 str. a spear might not be easy to maneuver, but it should still be powerful. there isnt a stat in runescape called "maneuverability" or something. spears should be concentrated towards stab and a bit of slash. have you ever seen people in war trying to maul people with a spear?? fine no movies. but if you checked out wikipedia or any encyclopedia, the spear was called the "king of all weapons" in Chinese. a weapon that was crap would never have got this title.

Um, no. If you want to look at it from a historical perspective, you'd have horses, or camels. Why are spears so effective? Look at the scene in Braveheart, when they're charging with a bunch of horses, and at the very last second, they pick up those incredibly long spears (twice the length of the longest man). Its the same concept of jousting, the longer your spear, the more advantage you had. Spears were not used in hand to hand combat. (Well, unless there was a phalanx but that isn't 1v1), And actually, swords were not used for stabbing or slashing. They didn't stay sharpened for long, after hitting armour a few times, they'd quickly be dulled. In fact, going up against a fully armoured knight, your best option would be to hit him from a far distance with a big stick (knock him out... not stab him), or use a long bow or a crossbow (from serious distance, serious ownage). If it was a knight against another knight, it'd be fight until knocking one down, and then jab a [bleep]e through their eye-hole, see Kingdom of Heaven. :P spears were actually used in hand to hand combat if u had ever watched any chinese war movies. the spear was a versatile and powerful weapon which could easily pierce chain armor and do high damage. ok longbows and crossbows were powerful but im talking bout melee so range is out of the question. so if your theory was true, it would be better to kill someone in war in a hit so axes and spears which were more powerful, would be better than a sword. so that proves my point that games are biased towardss swords.

I think that the scimmy has to be nerfed cos its just too powerful. In medieval times, swords were supposed to be the best weps but this is just a game so every wep should be equal. look at ancient romans and chinese. if the spear was really such a crappy wep, these empires wouldnt have existed. the vikings were fearsome people who used axes to raid the british, etc. And maces were also quite powerful and could easily stun enemies and deal a finishing power blow. too many games are damn unfair towards swords IMO. im not a mem so i dont know about obby weps and whips and stuff, but if the whip is really so good, it should be nerfed too. about that crushing wep that was as fast as a whip but incapable of training def, i think it should be changed into a huge maul that is damn slow(Speed 1) but has very high str bonuses and ok accuracy.

My rant is about how useless crushing and stabbing weps are. Except for some monsters, everyone just uses slashing weps. even battleaxes and 2h swords rarely are used. jagex tried to solve this by making chain weak against stab and plate weak against crush but who ever uses chain????! And slash is effective on BOTH mage and ranged armor. Furthermore, crush weps are too slow to be used effectively and stab weps are just useless *points at dagger* lol. Crushing weps should hit very high but are inaccurate and slow(but still effective on plate). Stabbing weps should be fast, with medium accuracy but lowish damage(still effective on chain). Slashing should be medium accuracy, speed and damage(but still effective on cloth and leather)However 2h swords and baxes sacrifice speed and a bit of accuracy for damage. Change the weapons so their dps is different on different monsters that have different defences against different attack styles (e.g. waterfiends), but for a monster with equal defence against all their attack styles, the dps is the same. (btw dps=damage per second) P.S. How can a quite heavy scimitar be as fast as a light dagger? Supporters: -Sonic3190 -Estorrath -Compfreak847 -- a support from him is really rare! -a_local_guy -ravenkana -TheDayRsDied Please state if you support in your post, it is very hard to list down everyone's name from page 1-10 or so. If your name is not in the list, just state so in a post (and free bump!). If you do not support, just tell me and I'll remove your name from the list. Edit: Some changes. Edit2: Supporter's list.