2 handed famed weapon hard to find?

[Moist Butt]

Is it me or its just extremely hard to get famed 2 handed weapon compare to other drops. By 2 handed weapon I mean your 2 handed frontline weapon like warhammer, not backline weapon like billhook. I have gotten a bunch of everything except for 2 handed weapon. Only got 1 and I bought that from shop. Do I just have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ luck?

[MerlinCross]

I dunno about 2 Handed weapons but I heard that famed shields are a bit weird. I'd have to look it up again but I think it's due to the fact they are rare to find in shops but also on the 'armor' list for rumors.

But that's shields, I don't know what to tell you about the two handed melee. I keep finding famed Polearms but only limited two handers...

Outside of Scimtars. Two city states usually have a blacksmith to buy stuff from(or at least one does) and I usually see a couple fame ones from them. Try your luck there?

[Tlewnipla]

Go and raid big Barbarian camps. A Champion has a high chance for a 2 handed weapon there, e.g.

[Heron]

It mostly comes down to chance. I'm usually swamped with famed shields before I start finding more useful stuff. Famed bows, xbows and boomsticks are rarest in my experience.

[A5G_Reaper]

There's... 8 potential camp drop / shop 2hander that fits your criteria out of around... 75 items. Which means Only about one in ten famed drop will be frontline 2hander.

There's the icy cave for guaranteed famed warblade. Beside that, champion barbarians are your best bet but their famed mace and hammer are inferior to the standard one, so the RNG is still against you - axe and warblade are desirable, but they could spawn with the mace, hammer, hat, or shirt instead.

[A5G_Reaper]

Those 8 are bardiche, greataxe, 2h scimitar, 2h flail, 2h hammer, 2h mace, greatword, warbrand.

[McGrits]

Dont forget to abuse caravan contracts and shops mechanic. I find a lot of two handers because of this. This takes money so use all the money from the not-famed drops when camp farming. Note that you can find famed versions of the southern melee weapons in the north shops too,

In the old days prior to champions, you could farm hedge knights for all the axes you would ever need. The champions mechanic nerfed some groups and buffed others for named items.

[Moist Butt]

Originally posted by Tlewnipla:

Go and raid big Barbarian camps. A Champion has a high chance for a 2 handed weapon there, e.g.

oops I forgot to mention that I do have a couple of famed barbarian maces and hammer. They honestly don't do enough damage for my taste so I didn't even count them.

[Moist Butt]

Originally posted by A5G_Reaper:

There's... 8 potential camp drop / shop 2hander that fits your criteria out of around... 75 items. Which means Only about one in ten famed drop will be frontline 2hander.

There's the icy cave for guaranteed famed warblade. Beside that, champion barbarians are your best bet but their famed mace and hammer are inferior to the standard one, so the RNG is still against you - axe and warblade are desirable, but they could spawn with the mace, hammer, hat, or shirt instead.

yup got a cleaver out of 4 rolls. I wish their famed weapon was buffed. Feels like the goblin version of 2 handed weapon.

[Moist Butt]

Originally posted by Heron:

It mostly comes down to chance. I'm usually swamped with famed shields before I start finding more useful stuff. Famed bows, xbows and boomsticks are rarest in my experience.

same. I got so many famed shield that I feel like the game is mocking me. Famed shield are also the worst imo because non orc version break so easily. Makes it kinda hard to always use them unless u have a blacksmith.

[Heron]

Originally posted by Moist Butt:

Originally posted by Tlewnipla:

Go and raid big Barbarian camps. A Champion has a high chance for a 2 handed weapon there, e.g.

oops I forgot to mention that I do have a couple of famed barbarian maces and hammer. They honestly don't do enough damage for my taste so I didn't even count them.

But they're great! Barb 2h hammers especially are arguably better than regular 2h hammers because they trade damage for armor penetration, making it easier to one shot armored opponents. Those things are vicious if they roll either damage or armor penetration. Same applies to barb axes.

[A5G_Reaper]

Originally posted by Heron:

Originally posted by Moist Butt:

oops I forgot to mention that I do have a couple of famed barbarian maces and hammer. They honestly don't do enough damage for my taste so I didn't even count them.

But they're great! Barb 2h hammers especially are arguably better than regular 2h hammers because they trade damage for armor penetration, making it easier to one shot armored opponents. Those things are vicious if they roll either damage or armor penetration. Same applies to barb axes.

The barbarian hammer need to roll either near-maximum damage, near-maximum armor pen, or both damage and armor pen to be just slightly better than a 2-handed hammer. It's possible, but way too unlikely ): same case with the mace.

The baseline axe and cleaver are plain better version of greataxe and 2-handed cleavers though, now that's premium drops.

[A5G_Reaper]

By the way, I was informed this recently: If you save right before your caravan reach the city, you can reload it so the well-supplied buff rolls a different set of shop item. Perfect to find famed items, if you have the cash.

[Moist Butt]

Originally posted by A5G_Reaper:

Originally posted by Heron:

But they're great! Barb 2h hammers especially are arguably better than regular 2h hammers because they trade damage for armor penetration, making it easier to one shot armored opponents. Those things are vicious if they roll either damage or armor penetration. Same applies to barb axes.

The barbarian hammer need to roll either near-maximum damage, near-maximum armor pen, or both damage and armor pen to be just slightly better than a 2-handed hammer. It's possible, but way too unlikely ): same case with the mace.

The baseline axe and cleaver are plain better version of greataxe and 2-handed cleavers though, now that's premium drops.

I didn't get lucky with rolls sadly.

[Moist Butt]

Originally posted by A5G_Reaper:

By the way, I was informed this recently: If you save right before your caravan reach the city, you can reload it so the well-supplied buff rolls a different set of shop item. Perfect to find famed items, if you have the cash.

i play ironman.

[Estieukua]

Get the Bounty Hunter camp follower and seek out camps with champ Fallen Heroes. True, they do usually spawn with a rare shield or 1H weapon, but they can also spawn with some lethal 2H hammers or maces, and it's also possible (especially in the later-game and during crises) to find FH champs in small farmhouse or graveyard camps that don't even have a necromancer to possess them.

Nomad Executioner champs are also good to seek out, because you can get 2-3 of them in a single large nomad camp, as opposed to only ever 1 Hedge Knight in a raider camp.