Vorpal

Version 0.16: 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 - Piercing
• 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 0.16, 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%.