Thrown Weapons

[Kalenz]

The tooltip doesn't really address this and I didn't find this in the forum so here's my question:
Since we are now able to throw pretty much anything what if anything is the point of the "thrown" characteristic of some weapons like daggers? Do they get a bonus to range, dmg or hit chance? Or should I just keep a couple greatswords in my inventory to throw at goblins?

[dolby]

Well Throw weapons get str bonus to damage and to hit chance with Str and actually use weapon die for damage.

Daggers are the only throw weapons that can do the same thing with dexterity.. In short daggers are useless most of the time cos you can't even use them as dual wielding weapons to throw it with bonus action....


The extra problem with throwing is that the whole system suxs balls and is half done even worse off than archery, Ui suxs and you can't really effectively dip fire/poison them so they lose on that damage front as well. There is more problems like extra special effects from weapons don't work. One example is blind from the crafted spear doesnt trigger and at the same time it deosn't do extra damage like it does in melee...

Other crapy you can throw is now limited to low damage if you do not have Berserker class . I would say in general stay away from throw weapons if you are not playing barbarian. Or let say if you need range attack and have none other cos your character dumped dex.

[Pan Darius Cassandra]

Use Mage Hand to throw daggers.

[mayrc]

hmmm i cant remember thrown weapons in Divinity...... so why should they be here?

[Gaius]

Originally posted by Kalenz:

The tooltip doesn't really address this and I didn't find this in the forum so here's my question:
Since we are now able to throw pretty much anything what if anything is the point of the "thrown" characteristic of some weapons like daggers? Do they get a bonus to range, dmg or hit chance? Or should I just keep a couple greatswords in my inventory to throw at goblins?

Thrown weapons behave like weapons, AKA use bonus damage from your stats, etc, and have a much longer range than anything that is heavy enough to do any relevant damage.

Other items do low damage based on their mass and that's it. Of course, if the items have special qualities, like flamable barrels, etc, there's that.

[NameTaken]

Originally posted by mayrc:

hmmm i cant remember thrown weapons in Divinity...... so why should they be here?

Well, with BG3 being much more inspired by 5e, following SRD progression quite a bit- and a lot of players for BG3 are infact coming from playing 5e, it would be a great addition to the game since throwing daggers is a very common thing for rogues to do to proc sneak attack when the character isn't imagined with a bow or crossbow.

[SpaceNvader]

Originally posted by mayrc:

hmmm i cant remember thrown weapons in Divinity...... so why should they be here?

Well... This is not Divinity.

[mayrc]

Originally posted by manwitch:

Originally posted by mayrc:

hmmm i cant remember thrown weapons in Divinity...... so why should they be here?

Well... This is not Divinity.

Damn your right the box reads D&D..... ok my bad there cant be anything else inside the box.

[Indure]

If you throw a weapon or item, no matter what its shape or size it will always do a small amount of damage. Weapons with the thrown property act as weapon attacks and therefore get their dice roll and ability modifier.

[Mr Pibbleton]

Originally posted by Kalenz:

The tooltip doesn't really address this and I didn't find this in the forum so here's my question:
Since we are now able to throw pretty much anything what if anything is the point of the "thrown" characteristic of some weapons like daggers? Do they get a bonus to range, dmg or hit chance? Or should I just keep a couple greatswords in my inventory to throw at goblins?

We can throw anything that we have sufficient strength to, while they do the damage of the weapon indicated, weight is a factor in fall damage. IE, if you throw a trident from up high you get bonus damage to the target. I have tried loading up a chest and chucking it from a bridge, but sadly that just did extra damage to the chest and not the target. Interestingly the dueling fighting style gives you bonus throw damage. Of course this is all subject to change before release, after all at one point you could throw giant strength potions on the ground and affect multiple people.

[Mosey]

Only weapons with the thrown property do their hit dice for damage. Random objects or weapons without that property do damage based on weight which is usually 1+str.

I don't recall the exact weights, but the damage does from 1+STR to 1D4+STR to 2D4+STR.

And Dagger's can use DEX for the to-hit but will still use STR for damage, so if you have an 8 STR you end up with a negative to damage.

Also, throwing items are basically glitched since they also do fall damage to the target. This means if you throw it from high enough, it does incredible damage as well as a knockback.

[BogTrotter]

Originally posted by mayrc:

hmmm i cant remember thrown weapons in Divinity...... so why should they be here?

Becuase this game ISNT divinity. its a dungeons and dragons game based off of 5th edition rules so it SHOULD use 5th edition rules

[KingOfFriedChicken]

Your thinking to small, throw the enemy at each other and keep a few goblin in your pocket just in case!

[Gaius]

Originally posted by Kalenz:

The tooltip doesn't really address this and I didn't find this in the forum so here's my question:
Since we are now able to throw pretty much anything what if anything is the point of the "thrown" characteristic of some weapons like daggers? Do they get a bonus to range, dmg or hit chance? Or should I just keep a couple greatswords in my inventory to throw at goblins?

Thrown weapons do their damage when thrown, other weapons are just threated as object and do (really low) damage based only on their mass, like any other thrown object.

thrown weapons are actually amazing for STR based characters, specially barbarians with enraged throw.

[mayrc]

Originally posted by Goblin Gamer:

Originally posted by mayrc:

hmmm i cant remember thrown weapons in Divinity...... so why should they be here?

Becuase this game ISNT divinity. its a dungeons and dragons game based off of 5th edition rules so it SHOULD use 5th edition rules

yeah..... sure....
No need for a throwing weapon. Just use a Magic missile scrol with your warrior and just immagine it was a dagger. There you have your DnD game. :)

[wtiger27]

Originally posted by Mosey:

Also, throwing items are basically glitched since they also do fall damage to the target. This means if you throw it from high enough, it does incredible damage as well as a knockback.

I do not know why they would want to fix that. Seems realistic. A dropped item from heights, can increase in speed which would be higher than any speed a char could throw them. Depending on how high. However, I can see fixing the knockback.