Long Blades

Version 0.29: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.

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.

Be cautious when setting a weapon skill target. If you've done it for a falchion and find later on a much better scimitar (e.g. by defeating Erica) you can't change it anymore. If that's a coding gap or an intentional feature is unknown.

Aptitudes

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

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
• Long blades selection strategy