Maces & Flails

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The Maces & Flails skill denotes how powerful your character is with bludgeoning and bashing instruments. These weapons are some of the most damaging in the game. It crosstrains with the Axes skill and the Staves skill.

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	1	-3	-1	-1	-2	0	N/A	0	0	-1	8	1	0	-1	-2	2	-2	0	0	0	-3	1	-1	-2	-1

List of Maces & Flails

Name	Dam	Hit	Speed	Hands	Size	Dam Type	Prob
Club	5	+3	13	One	Little	Crushing	0
Whip	6	+2	11	One	Little	Slashing	0
Mace	8	+3	14	One	Little	Crushing	10
Flail	10	0	14	One	Little	Crushing	10
Morningstar	13	-2	15	One	Little	Crushing/Piercing	10
Demon whip	11	+1	11	One	Little	Slashing	2
Sacred scourge	12	+0	11	One	Little	Slashing	0
Dire flail	13	-3	13	Two	Medium	Crushing/Piercing	10
Eveningstar	15	-1	15	One	Little	Crushing/Piercing	2
Great mace	17	-4	17	Two	Medium	Crushing	10
Giant club	20	-6	16	Two	Large	Crushing	10
Giant spiked club	22	-7	18	Two	Large	Crushing/Piercing	10

Strategy

Maces & Flails have no special gimmicks. They don't have the reaching of a Polearm, cleaving of an Axe, and scale with strength (as opposed to Long Blades). To compensate, these weapons generally have higher base damage, tied with Long Blades.

See Also

• Table of species aptitudes