these weapons need boosts

[Defy]

There needs to be a serious item boost to make people use these items

 

THIS IS F2P ONLY ITEMS

 

 

 

Maces

 

Daggers(maybe have you can duel weild them but not dragon)

 

Long swords

 

Short Swords

 

Battle axes(i dont know if they need a boost but in the past year or so ive seen nobody use axes, unless dragon)

 

 

 

Nobody uses them well some people use battle axes but no way near as much as skimitars and 2h.

[GrimHams]

Shut the hell up on daggers. Apart from that not really.

[swordwindtrtrtrt]

I think maces should be buffed slightly, but I agree sthu about duel weilding daggers. B-axes are fine and are often used on f2p.

[Smapla]

dragon mace is actually very powerful, see sig

 

daggers are meant to be less powerful, do you really think people in medeival times went to war using a dagger primarily?

 

long swords are fine, many f2p clans use rune longs as much as scimmies, especially in wars.

 

short swords are supposed to be less powerful

 

battle axes are I believe the second most used weapon type in f2p.

[Defy]

Stop saying that the dragon versions are better. i said f2p and i know that all the dragon weapons are good. so you want no body to use bronze - rune daggers and just leave them. i have been pking for about a month. i see no BATTLE AXES there all i see are bows staffs 2h's skims.

[heartless619]

i agree maces need a boost but every1 just thinks schims are kooler...and axes are really slow thats why you dont see them...think about the aero dynamics in the schimmy its way faster..so really just upgrade the mace..but will never happen...

[unkn0wnwarrior]

battle axes are I believe the second most used weapon type in f2p.

I would say third. I see them, but not as much as 2-handers and Scimitars. I am one of these battleaxe wielders, by the way.

[Toxicologist]

Battle Axes, Scimitars, Long Swords (to some extent) and Two Handed Swords are all commonly used in F2P worlds. Daggers and Short Swords I think are fine, they were never meant to be good weapons anyway. Maces are a bit weak, but they do have a prayer bonus and again, they were never meant to be overly strong. What I mainly think is too weak in F2P is War Hammers. That thing is almost useless, a Battle Axe can do everything a War Hammer can do.

[Gin_and_Tonic]

Anything else that needs updating? :?

[ember3579]

in all honesty, i think that the d spear is severely nerfed for no apparent reason. it may be able to use all attack types (stab, slash, crush) but still. it is painfully weak, and all the spec does is shove the opponent back a square and a bind effect (5 second stun), no damage. practically the ONLY use for that is to run or for pking with like 5+ other people, and that is dangerous (the spear with s poison is around 200-250k, and it is practically the only one that sees use anyway).

[Gehackte]

 

- Using 2 Weapons *

 

 

 

 

about your daggers

[Will H]

I think it is actually mostly only the 2handed weapons that need updating. Actually, there was a really good post on the offical forums about 'chaotic' weapons. I cant find the quickfind code, but I'm sure someone else has it. That one deals with the problems, and adds a cool new quest too.

[sirgudi]

longs: higher stats the scimmy

 

daggers: very good if your high strength, even non members

 

shortsword: no one wants, uses or needs them, there a useless part of the game.

 

mace: again, pointless.

[willyhenriksen]

All of those weapons are great if you know how to use them correctly. Daggers are great if you're in a hurry in wild and need to get an archer down quickly. Battleaxes are used all over the lands.

 

 

 

The people playing runescape doesn't really care about what their weapons can hit well against if only it can hit a good amount against any monster (therefor using longswords and scimitars which are good all-round weapons).

 

 

 

Crush-stab-slash, how many here takes those attacks into consideration when going out to train? I'd probably count few... the shortswords are as good as never used and you didn't add them to the list? They're decently fast and can hit harder then the dagger, the only reason why it's not used is because people use a little more money so they don't have to be stuck with a worse-then-average weapon.

 

 

 

 

 

At last, weapons are supposed to be different, making all weapons equally strong would make wildy fight so predictable that all Pking would die out. Keep the differences, it's helping the game.

[Zonorhc]

daggers are meant to be less powerful, do you really think people in medeival times went to war using a dagger primarily?

 

Not primarily, but daggers were more important than ignorants like you give them credit for.

 

 

 

When combat degenerates into a vicious m̮̻̉̉l̮̩̉̉e and there isn't any room to swing a bloody huge claymore or hack at someone with your broadsword, you want a dagger to jam into the other bloke's joints. Daggers are a damn good close combat weapon.

 

 

 

them...think about the aero dynamics in the schimmy its way faster..

 

Scimitar. SCIMITAR.

 

 

 

And no. The "aerodynamics" has nothing to do with it. A scimitar is about as aerodynamic as your average broadsword, and you can't thrust with it to save yourself. It's about as fast as someone can swing it, which is about the same as a broadsword since you don't have as much momentum to play around with. It's very efficient at killing unarmoured or lightly armoured opponents, but beyond that, I'd rather have a heavier blade. More mass = more momentum = more kinetic energy = more power.

 

 

 

Just stick to debating game mechanics, because it looks like those of you who want to argue for weapons based on their "realistic value" don't actually have a clue about what you're saying.

[mojo477]

well the only 1 problem with maces daggers and short swords is that the scimitar is the same speed at them but strong so if you could make those three faster and a tad bit stronger then i would love it battle axes are fine but i think the crush bonus should be lessened and increase war hammer crush so war hammers could be used more

[Cycoextreme]

people in f2p in rsc the big weapons were battle axe, and 2h, scimmys were rarely ever used, the first rune weapon i ever got was a rune long, in rsc when rune actually looked cool to have, i would say people would use diff weapons more if the weapons had a little more detail put into them, i mean look at the weapon pics from rsc sprite to now, i think the old weapons looked alot better, but i only use scimmy now