"Blackjack" weapon/ Backstabbing focused weapon
issueid=3701 04-23-2015 02:33 AM
Ancient Member
Number of reported issues by pblack: 7
"Blackjack" weapon/ Backstabbing focused weapon
New weapons for the dodgy stealthy kind of guys.

These are actually 1.5 suggestions:

1) A blackjack kind of weapon, like in THIEFs games. This blunt object has a possibility of stunning/putting to sleep opponents who are caught in a backstab with it.

1.5) Simply adding another suffix for weapons that do increased damage on backstabs only.
Issue Details
Issue Number 3701
Issue Type Feature
Project ADOM (Ancient Domains Of Mystery)
Category All
Status Suggested
Priority 5 - Medium
Suggested Version ADOM r58
Implemented Version (none)
Milestone (none)
Votes for this feature 1
Votes against this feature 1
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04-23-2015 07:53 AM
Senior Member
Thunder weapons do the stunning already, though I don't know if backstab pays any role in that.

04-25-2015 10:24 AM
Ancient Member
That sounds a taffin' bit overpowered.

04-25-2015 02:50 PM
Ancient Member
Quote Originally Posted by auricbond
That sounds a taffin' bit overpowered.
It depends on implementation.

It doesn't have to do that in 100% of the backstabs. And it should have pretty low damage overall, so that it is really only worth using it if you can realiably backstab a lot of the time (thinking invisibility here).

It can be an artifact or just a really rare weapon like staffs of power and so on.

04-25-2015 11:29 PM
Ancient Member
Thieves do already have a stunning critical hit class power.

04-27-2015 02:47 PM
Ancient Member
Quote Originally Posted by JellySlayer
Thieves do already have a stunning critical hit class power.
Althou it was inspired by them, I'm not suggesting it shoud be limited to them.

But you comment brings me to the idea that maybe the class power should activate on backstabs and not critical hits. This makes it somewhat worse depending on how you see it, but it could be 95% effective on backstabs, instead of being usually 5% effective on normal hits. This would make thieves a much more rewarding class to play, since now, their best combat oriented class power is usually only useful if you play classs wit FW. It would give their artifact cloak a high desirability ratio too.


That... that is actually a better RFE than this one JellySlayer. Althou, much farther away since class powers overhaul is something that should be done to many classes already.

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