Long Blades

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The Long Blades skill that governs your proficiency with long swords and other such blades. These weapons deal moderate-to-high damage, depending on whether you wish to wield one- or two-handed swords. It crosstrains with the Short Blades skill.

Long Blades use Dexterity instead of Strength for their attacks.

Aptitudes

At	Ba	Co	DE	Dg	Ds	Dj	Dr	Fe	Fo	Gr	Gh	Gn	Hu	Ko	Mf	Mi	MD	Mu	Na	Op	On	Sp	Te	Tr	Vp	VS
-1	2	0	-1	-1	-1	-1	0	N/A	0	-1	-1	8	0	-2	2	2	-1	-2	0	0	-1	-2	1	-2	0	-1

List of Long Blades

Name	Dam	Hit	Speed	Hands	Size	Dam Type	Prob
Falchion	8	+2	13	One	Small	Slicing	10
Long sword	10	+1	14	One	Medium	Slicing	10
Scimitar	12	0	14	One	Medium	Slicing	10
Demon blade	13	-1	13	One	Medium	Slicing	2
Eudemon blade	14	-2	12	One	Medium	Slicing	0
Double sword	15	-1	15	One	Medium	Slicing	2
Great sword	17	-3	17	Two	Large	Slicing	10
Triple sword	19	-4	18	Two	Large	Slicing	2

Strategy

Since Long Blades scale with dexterity, they are relatively better on Dodging-focused characters. DEX increases the evasion you gain from Dodging skill, which lends well to lighter armour.

However, this is not an especially forcing reason to use Long Blades. Stats don't make a huge impact; a heavy armour character can use a Long Blade fine, and lightly armoured character don't have to use these weapons. If you find a great randart blade on a "strength" character, don't hesitate to train Long Blades.

History

• In 0.29, long blades now scale with Dexterity, rather than Strength.
• In 0.28, long blades lost the ability to riposte. Base damage was returned to pre-0.19 levels.
• In 0.19, long blades gained the ability to riposte (counter-attack enemies that missed), with damage slightly decreased to compensate.
• In 0.16, bastard swords and claymores were renamed back to double and triple swords. Blessed weapons were removed.
• In 0.14, double and triple swords were renamed to bastard swords and claymores, respectively.

See Also

• List of long blades
• Table of species aptitudes