Vorpal

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It inflicts extra damage upon your enemies.

Vorpal is a brand which any weapon may have. Melee weapons with the vorpal brand do extra damage of at least 1 and up to 33% each hit, averaging +16.6%. Ranged weapons do 20% more damage. There is a 15.8% chance to brand a melee weapon and a 19% chance to brand a ranged weapon with vorpal when a scroll of brand weapon is used on a non-artifact weapon. This chance increases if the weapon already has a brand other than vorpal.

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 the extra damage.

History

• Prior to 0.25, different types of weapons used different descriptors based on the type of damage they inflicted ("Piercing", "Chopping", "Slicing", "Crushing", "Velocity", etc.).
• 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%.