Vorpal

Version 0.13: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

It inflicts extra damage upon your enemies.

Vorpal is a brand which any weapon may have. Melee weapons with the vorpal brand do between +0% and +33% additional damage each hit, averaging +16.6%. Ranged weapons do 20% more damage.

The displayed brand name differs by weapons type:

• Axes - Chopping
• Short Blades - Slicing
• Polearms - Piercing
• Maces & Flails, Staves - Crushing
• Long Blades - Slashing
• Short Blades - Stabbing
• Ranged weapons - Velocity

While vorpal-branded weapons can be found randomly, you can also make your own through use of a scroll of brand weapon on a non-branded, non-artifact weapon. This may be a waste, however, as the scroll can also be used to affix several other more useful brands.

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 its damage.

History

Prior to 0.13 this brand increased your damage between 0% and 25% each hit, averaging 12.5%.