Double-strike weapon

KRAKII
Re: 2for1 attack weapons 
on 1/24/2005 12:15:52 PM 
710

There are at least four (4) different kinds of weapons that do this, and there are two (2) different types of one of those. :)

1) Coraesine weapons have this capability; they work just like an elemental flare, except the "flare" is an additional swing. In addition to the ones already mentioned, there are to my knowledge two different short swords (one is +30, one is lower), and at least three flails (+10, +15, and +30); the last time I inquired, I believe "a blackened coraesine greatsword" had been taken to the grave on a retired character.

1b) There are both "pure" and "impure" coraesine weapons. The ones described above are "impure", and usable by any character. These are the ones that you might find for sale. "Pure" coraesine weapons are attuned to a single character and therefor will never be sold (although it is conceivable that the character owning it might be sold); they have additional powers on top of the double-strike.

2) "Death" weapons, when swung at their attuned creature. (Like "a golem deathmace", or "a rat deathdagger", or "a troll deathblade" [falchion based]; those are some of the keyed ones that I've seen.)

3) "a massive stone [hammer, mattock]" have this double-strike as one of their flares; note that the "hammer" exists in both 1HCrush and 2Hand versions. Other flares on these weapons are petrification (effectively the same as the Bind spell, but different messaging), and they can be "tap"ped to produce a Quake-like effect.

4) "a fel-hafted heavy granite stormhammer" & "a glaes-hafted heavy granite stormhammer". Again, they have the double-strike flares; these can also produce a Call Wind-like effect.

1, 2, 3, & 4 all came out in the 1998 Auction. 1b came out at an event in April last year, 2004.

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Update as of 5 January 2006, from an email received from Kanyda:

PS: I stumbled across Krakiipedia the other day, you have an entry that mentions the kind of weapons that do "double strike flares" in which the stormhammers are listed. A common misconception because they are so similar to the stone mattocks that do double flare. I've owned both of these weapons though and the stormhammer doesn't double flare. I tried to edit it but it requires a login.

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So, it looks like the stormhammers do not double flare after all.