Spyridon the Minotor wrote:I'm carrying a +3 long sword as my weapon of choice and have made all my kills with it.
One thing that repeatedly happens with new players is they see an enchanted weapon and stick with it far, far too long. It's possible that a long sword is one of the few/only swords that you've seen so far, but it's likely there's a better sword in your game. There's a few numbers that matter with weapons, but for 95% of situations, only two matter: Base damage, and base delay.
A long sword is 9 base damage and 14 delay (also called 140%). So it takes 1.4 turns or 14 auts to swing with 0 skill, and every 2 skill levels in a weapon lowers the delay by 1 (or 10%). Min delay is the fastest you can swing a weapon with high enough skill, and is a very important thing to try to reach. For a long sword that's 14 skill, which makes the attack delay 7 auts (.7 turns). No melee weapon in the game is slower than 7 auts (crossbows are 10 auts, and there's an unrand dark maul which is slower). So you have the slowest min delay on a weapon with only 9 base damage; this is very bad.
A scimitar is 11 base damage for the same 14 delay; it's pretty much just straight up better. That being said there's still better swords than it - demon blades are 12 damage at only 13 delay, which means their min delay is 6. In my opinion the strongest sword is the double sword, which is 14 damage for 16 delay. Back before reposte was added, they had 15 damage, which is very high for a 1h weapon.
This is kind of rambling at this point but the goal here is just to say that a 9 base damage long sword is pretty bad even with +3; you'd be better off using a scimitar assuming you have any decent long blade skill, which shouldn't be a problem for a minotaur. And then if you can find an actually good sword like a demon blade or double sword, those are endgame weapons. If you want to go two handed, a great sword is very good, and pretty common. Triple swords are great for the end game but they take a lot of skill to use effectively, and they're also rare. You shouldn't really ever use a long blade unless it's literally the only sword you can find.