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The [[Throwing]] skill denotes how accurate and powerful your character is with thrown weapons and blowguns. It [[crosstrain]]s with the [[Slings]] skill. Note than unlike most weapon skills, improving your Throwing skill does not increase the speed of your attacks, except when attacking with a blowgun; only [[Haste]] and [[Finesse]] can allow you to throw faster.
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The [[Throwing]] skill denotes how accurate and powerful your character is with thrown weapons and blowguns. It [[crosstrain]]s with the [[Slings]] skill.
  
 
The following weapons use the Throwing skill:
 
The following weapons use the Throwing skill:
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*[[Tomahawk]]s
 
*[[Tomahawk]]s
  
Anything not listed above can still be thrown, but it is usually useless to do so. A notable exception to this is exploding [[sling bullet]]s, which still deal the damage from the explosion.  
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Anything not listed above can still be thrown, but it is usually useless to do so, as it will do little to no damage. A notable exception to this is exploding [[sling bullet]]s, which still deal the damage from the explosion.  
  
 
==Throwing Aptitudes==
 
==Throwing Aptitudes==
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[[category:Throwing]]
 
[[category:Throwing]]
 
[[Category:Weapon skills]]
 
[[Category:Weapon skills]]
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==History==
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In 0.14, increasing the Throwing skill did not decrease the delay of throwing, unlike all other weapon-related skills.

Revision as of 20:58, 3 May 2016

Version 0.14: This article may not be up to date for the latest stable release of Crawl.


The Throwing skill denotes how accurate and powerful your character is with thrown weapons and blowguns. It crosstrains with the Slings skill.

The following weapons use the Throwing skill:

Anything not listed above can still be thrown, but it is usually useless to do so, as it will do little to no damage. A notable exception to this is exploding sling bullets, which still deal the damage from the explosion.

Throwing Aptitudes

From in-game documentation:

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

In 0.14, increasing the Throwing skill did not decrease the delay of throwing, unlike all other weapon-related skills.