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:''Originally posted by KRAKII 24 January 2005. Updated to article format.
KRAKII
Re: 2for1 attack weapons
on 1/24/2005 12:15:52 PM
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There are at least four (4) different kinds of weapons that do this, and there are two (2)
There are at least three different kinds of weapons that will attack twice without needing to train in [[Multi-Opponent Combat]]:
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 sword]]s (one is +30, one is lower), and at least three [[flail]]s (+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.
1) [[Coraesine]] weapons have this capability; they work just like an elemental [[flare]], except the "flare" is an additional swing.


2) "Death" weapons, when swung at their attuned creature (e.g. "a golem deathmace", or "a rat deathdagger", or "a troll deathblade").
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. [[Coraesine#Pure_Coraesine|"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.


3) "a massive stone <[[war hammer|hammer]], [[mattock]]>" have 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.
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 <[[war hammer|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.

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Originally posted by KRAKII 24 January 2005. Updated to article format.

There are at least three different kinds of weapons that will attack twice without needing to train in Multi-Opponent Combat:

1) Coraesine weapons have this capability; they work just like an elemental flare, except the "flare" is an additional swing.

2) "Death" weapons, when swung at their attuned creature (e.g. "a golem deathmace", or "a rat deathdagger", or "a troll deathblade").

3) "a massive stone <hammer, mattock>" have 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.