Edged Weapons

Edged Weapons (OHE) are some of the most common melee weapons in Elanthia. They're easy and require little training to use, as evidenced by training point costs. The various one-handed edged weapons are the backsword, bastard sword, broadsword, dagger, estoc, falchion, handaxe, longsword, main gauche, rapier, scimitar, and short sword. Two hybrid weapons that require training in OHE include the katar and katana.

Max Ranks and Training Point costs

Type	Square			Semi			Pure
Profession	Rogue	Warrior	Monk	Bard	Paladin	Ranger	Cleric	Empath	Savant	Sorcerer	Wizard
Max Ranks Per Level	2	2	2	2	2	2	1	1	-	1	1
Training Point Cost	2/1	2/1	2/1	3/1	3/1	3/1	6/1	6/2	-	6/2	6/1

Damage Factors and Attack vs. Defense

Weapon	AG	Cloth	Leather				Scale				Chain				Plate				RT	Min RT	Damage Type	STR/DU
	AsG	1	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20
Arrows/bolts	DF	.200	.100				.080				.100				.040				5	4	Puncture/Slash	20/40
	AvD	20	18	17	16	15	10	8	6	4	5	1	-3	-7	-5	-11	-17	-23
Dagger	DF	.250	.200				.100				.125				.075				1	2	Slash/Puncture	18/195
	AvD	25	23	22	21	20	15	13	11	9	10	6	2	-2	0	-6	-12	-18
Main gauche	DF	.275	.210				.110				.125				.075				2	3	Slash/Puncture	18/190
	AvD	27	25	24	23	22	20	18	16	14	20	16	12	8	20	14	8	2
Rapier	DF	.325	.225				.125				.125				.075				2	3	Slash/Puncture	30/100
	AvD	45	40	39	38	37	30	28	26	24	35	31	27	23	15	9	3	-3
Whip-blade	DF	.333	.225				.125				.115				.065				2	3	Slash	30/100
	AvD	45	40	39	38	37	30	28	26	24	35	31	27	23	15	9	3	-3
Katar	DF	.325	.250				.225				.200				.175				3	3	Slash/Puncture	70/175
	AvD	30	32	31	30	29	40	38	36	34	45	41	37	33	40	34	28	22
Short sword	DF	.350	.240				.200				.150				.125				3	3	Slash/Puncture/Crush	70/185
	AvD	40	36	35	34	33	30	28	26	24	25	21	17	13	25	19	13	7
Scimitar	DF	.375	.260				.210				.200				.165				4	4	Slash/Puncture/Crush	60/150
	AvD	30	31	30	29	28	30	28	26	24	30	26	22	18	30	24	18	12
Estoc	DF	.425	.300				.200				.200				.150				4	4	Slash/Puncture	65/160
	AvD	36	38	37	36	35	35	33	31	29	40	36	32	28	30	24	18	12
Longsword	DF	.425	.275				.225				.200				.175				4	4	Slash/Puncture/Crush	65/160
	AvD	41	42	41	40	39	43	41	39	37	37	33	29	25	35	29	23	17
Handaxe	DF	.420	.300				.270				.240				.210				5	4	Slash/Crush	70/160
	AvD	30	32	31	30	29	38	36	34	32	41	37	33	29	41	35	29	23
Backsword	DF	.440	.310				.225				.240				.150				5	4	Slash/Puncture/Crush	75/160
	AvD	38	38	37	36	35	34	32	30	28	38	34	30	26	34	28	22	16
Broadsword	DF	.450	.300				.250				.225				.200				5	4	Slash/Puncture/Crush	75/160
	AvD	36	36	35	34	33	36	34	32	30	37	33	29	25	36	30	24	18
Falchion	DF	.450	.325				.250				.250				.175				5	4	Slash/Crush	75/160
	AvD	35	37	36	35	34	38	36	34	32	39	35	31	27	39	33	27	21
Katana	DF	.450	.325				.275				.225				.175				5	4	Slash	75/225
	AvD	38	36	35	34	33	36	34	32	30	37	33	29	25	35	29	23	17
Bastard sword	DF	.450	.325				.275				.250				.180				6	4	Slash/Crush	75/200
	AvD	30	31	30	29	28	31	29	27	25	32	28	24	20	31	25	19	13

Weapon Damage Type Ratios

This table contains the edged weapon critical damage type percentage for successful attacks (based on player research). As an example, the dagger will result in 62.5% puncture critical damage and 37.5% slash critical damage on average for all attacks, or a puncture to slash damage ratio of 5 to 3. Daggers do not do crush critical damage.

Note: Because of smallish sample sizes for determining some of these percentages, they may not be precise in all cases, but should be close enough to give a decent representation of the damage ratios.

Weapon	Slash %	Crush %	Puncture%
Arrow/bolt (ranged)	0	0	100
Arrow/bolt (melee)	?	0	?
Dagger	33.3	0	66.7
Main Gauche	33.3	0	66.7
Rapier	33.3	0	66.7
Whip-blade	100	0	0
Katar	33.3	0	66.7
Short sword	33.3	33.3	33.3
Scimitar	50	16.7	33.3
Estoc	33.3	0	66.7
Longsword	50	16.7	33.3
Handaxe	33.3	66.7	0
Backsword	50	16.7	33.3
Broadsword	50	16.7	33.3
Falchion	66.7	33.3	0
Katana	100	0	0
Bastard sword	66.7	33.3	0

Resources

• Forging
• Damage factor
• Material
• http://www.play.net/gs4/info/armory/edgedweapons.asp
• http://www.play.net/gs4/info/skills.asp#edged
• One-Handed Combat Officials folder