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Description |
As of right now, only Fi/Gl are allowed to select a falchion as their starting weapon. A Chaos Knight can select a mace, which is nearly identical to the falchion.
Mace: 8/3/140
Falchion: 8/2/130
When both of these weapon reach min delay, the falchion can attack 8 times in 5 turns, versus 7 times in 5 turns for the mace. The lower accuracy may take away the 1 aut advantage of the mace. I haven't fsimmed it, but I would bet it's very close.
Neither of these weapon classes have special abilities. What they offer are different upgrade paths. Long Blades have the best common one hander (scimitar) and Maces and Flails have the best common non-axe two-hander (great mace). A great sword is nowhere near as good as a great mace, and the one handed maces and flails are all terrible (these really need reworking).
I suggest allowing CK to choose a falchion as a test to see if Be should be allowed to select a falchion as well, which has been suggested by other players in ##crawl.
I have attached two patches. One gives CK the choice of falchion without altering the base damage of falchions, and the other gives CK the choice of falchion and lowers the base damage of falchions to 7, which would make a falchion worse than a mace damage-wise, but with a better upgrade path for one-handed weapons.
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Attached Files |
 add_falchion_to_ck_normal.patch [^] (948 bytes) 2012-12-27 01:13 [Show Content] [Hide Content]From b7b3621476fc546802e6d4891e72c3c48cfcae7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Honey <chrishoney@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:57:32 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add falchion to Chaos Knight weapon selection.
---
crawl-ref/source/ng-restr.cc | 6 +++++-
1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/ng-restr.cc b/crawl-ref/source/ng-restr.cc
index eefb018..1b55df4 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/ng-restr.cc
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/ng-restr.cc
@@ -677,8 +677,12 @@ char_choice_restriction weapon_restriction(weapon_type wpn,
return CC_RESTRICTED;
}
case WPN_FALCHION:
- if (ng.job != JOB_FIGHTER && ng.job != JOB_GLADIATOR)
+ if (ng.job != JOB_FIGHTER
+ && ng.job != JOB_GLADIATOR
+ && ng.job != JOB_CHAOS_KNIGHT)
+ {
return CC_BANNED;
+ }
switch (ng.species)
{
case SP_HUMAN:
--
1.7.9.5
add_falchion_to_ck_alter_base_damage.patch [^] (2,069 bytes) 2012-12-27 01:28 [Show Content] [Hide Content]From 45da99c54ebd0c80cd1f5e9d8f07347a00f1edfe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Honey <chrishoney@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2012 17:57:32 -0600
Subject: [PATCH] Add falchion to Chaos Knight weapon selection.
This is an alternate patch that reduces the base damage of falchion
from 8 to 7.
---
crawl-ref/source/itemprop.cc | 4 ++--
crawl-ref/source/ng-restr.cc | 6 +++++-
2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/itemprop.cc b/crawl-ref/source/itemprop.cc
index 68f1c0c..37e67ce 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/itemprop.cc
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/itemprop.cc
@@ -234,10 +234,10 @@ static const weapon_def Weapon_prop[NUM_WEAPONS] =
DAMV_SLICING | DAM_PIERCE, 10 },
// Long Blades
- { WPN_FALCHION, "falchion", 8, 2, 13, 170, 4,
+ { WPN_FALCHION, "falchion", 7, 2, 13, 170, 4,
SK_LONG_BLADES, HANDS_ONE, SIZE_SMALL, MI_NONE, false,
DAMV_SLICING, 10 }, // or perhaps DAMV_CHOPPING is more apt?
- { WPN_BLESSED_FALCHION, "blessed falchion", 9, 2, 12, 170, 4,
+ { WPN_BLESSED_FALCHION, "blessed falchion", 8, 2, 12, 170, 4,
SK_LONG_BLADES, HANDS_ONE, SIZE_SMALL, MI_NONE, false,
DAMV_SLICING, 0 }, // or perhaps DAMV_CHOPPING is more apt?
{ WPN_LONG_SWORD, "long sword", 10, 1, 14, 160, 3,
diff --git a/crawl-ref/source/ng-restr.cc b/crawl-ref/source/ng-restr.cc
index eefb018..1b55df4 100644
--- a/crawl-ref/source/ng-restr.cc
+++ b/crawl-ref/source/ng-restr.cc
@@ -677,8 +677,12 @@ char_choice_restriction weapon_restriction(weapon_type wpn,
return CC_RESTRICTED;
}
case WPN_FALCHION:
- if (ng.job != JOB_FIGHTER && ng.job != JOB_GLADIATOR)
+ if (ng.job != JOB_FIGHTER
+ && ng.job != JOB_GLADIATOR
+ && ng.job != JOB_CHAOS_KNIGHT)
+ {
return CC_BANNED;
+ }
switch (ng.species)
{
case SP_HUMAN:
--
1.7.9.5
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