weapon rarity

[Dixon Sider]

I have been wanting to use a pike on my rogue so he can mele when im door jamming but I havent found anything better than this crappy standard pike. It seems pikes are extremely rare in deadfire. I think the rarity of the weapons should show up in their tooltips so when im creating a character I know how abundant they will be. I am level 10 and can not replace my standard pike.

Anyone else find a specific weapon or gear type to be too rare?

[Reaver79]

Only one i found was from a ship fight. And yes in general if your not useing a saber, sword or flail theres not too many choices. Theres a couple of daggers, rapiers and hammers, cant recall if i ever found more than 1 mace and i have only seen 1 axe as well. Theres also 3 warbows and only 1 hunting bow from what i have seen.
(mind you might be some from a quest i have missed)

[Dixon Sider]

Messaggio originale di Reaver79:

Only one i found was from a ship fight. And yes in general if your not useing a saber, sword or flail theres not too many choices. Theres a couple of daggers, rapiers and hammers, cant recall if i ever found more than 1 mace and i have only seen 1 axe as well. Theres also 3 warbows and only 1 hunting bow from what i have seen.
(mind you might be some from a quest i have missed)

Ya I am regretting my pike decision. all though I dont think I seen any quarterstaffs either and those are the only 2 with reach IIRC so its w/e.

[deadsanta]

Messaggio originale di dixon sider:

Messaggio originale di Reaver79:

Only one i found was from a ship fight. And yes in general if your not useing a saber, sword or flail theres not too many choices. Theres a couple of daggers, rapiers and hammers, cant recall if i ever found more than 1 mace and i have only seen 1 axe as well. Theres also 3 warbows and only 1 hunting bow from what i have seen.
(mind you might be some from a quest i have missed)

Ya I am regretting my pike decision. all though I dont think I seen any quarterstaffs either and those are the only 2 with reach IIRC so its w/e.

If you go to the undead isle there are tons of superb quarterstaffs with a minor enhancement. Besides that I only found two unique staves, but enough level-appropriate gear to equip my party. Polaxes are about the same rarity, I think Morning Stars are the best 2-h bet, seem to be several unique and a fair number of drops/vendors.

[Hobocop]

Pick one of these if you want to possibly never find a unique in 30 hours of playtime:

-Hunting Bow
-Battle Axe
-Rapier
-Pollaxe
-Morningstar
-Arbalest
-Crossbow
-Mace
-Club
-Pike
-Warhammer

Pick one of these if you want to drown in uniques that you'll probably never find enough uses for:

-Sabre
-Sword
-Greatsword
-Flail

The other weapons have reasonable representation (3-4 uniques) in the game, depending on your PoE1 legacy options.

https://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/List_of_unique_weapons_(Deadfire)

[Lemurian1972]

Messaggio originale di dixon sider:

Ya I am regretting my pike decision. all though I dont think I seen any quarterstaffs either and those are the only 2 with reach IIRC so its w/e.

There are 2 quarterstaffs, one designed around Druids (found in Dark Cupboard), the other for Wizards (found in Nemnok's lair). Either one can be alt enchanted to do well against enemies using those sorts of abilities.

[djinnxy]

Messaggio originale di Lemurian1972:

Messaggio originale di dixon sider:

Ya I am regretting my pike decision. all though I dont think I seen any quarterstaffs either and those are the only 2 with reach IIRC so its w/e.

There are 2 quarterstaffs, one designed around Druids (found in Dark Cupboard), the other for Wizards (found in Nemnok's lair). Either one can be alt enchanted to do well against enemies using those sorts of abilities.

3. streetsweeper.

[Dixon Sider]

Ya il look stuff up at my second playthrough but this one I want to do blind. I found a random exceptional quarterstaff while exploring so I just switched my pike for that one. Its only maybe 1/8 fights where I use my long reach mele weapon anyways.

[Lemurian1972]

Messaggio originale di djinnxy:

Messaggio originale di Lemurian1972:

There are 2 quarterstaffs, one designed around Druids (found in Dark Cupboard), the other for Wizards (found in Nemnok's lair). Either one can be alt enchanted to do well against enemies using those sorts of abilities.

3. streetsweeper.

Thank you I always forget that one.

[Dorok]

Myslef I found a unique spike relatively soon, Lance of the Midwood Stag, check wiki to take it relatively soon. But overall yeah, like in Baldur's Gate 1&2, weapons types aren't evenly distributed among special weapons.

[jonoliveira12]

Messaggio originale di Hobocop:

Pick one of these if you want to possibly never find a unique in 30 hours of playtime:

-Hunting Bow
-Battle Axe
-Rapier
-Pollaxe
-Morningstar
-Arbalest
-Crossbow
-Mace
-Club
-Pike
-Warhammer

Pick one of these if you want to drown in uniques that you'll probably never find enough uses for:

-Sabre
-Sword
-Greatsword
-Flail

The other weapons have reasonable representation (3-4 uniques) in the game, depending on your PoE1 legacy options.

https://pillarsofeternity.gamepedia.com/List_of_unique_weapons_(Deadfire)

There is an unique arbalest for sale in Nekehtaka. I believe it is called Spear-Launcher.

[Reaver79]

Theres also a unique rapier and a club for sale with merchants. If your not looking at all dont expect to be given anything.

[Reffy]

I have yet to find a fine/exceptional quarterstaff. Or a legendary that isn't an unique weapon.

[Reaver79]

You wont find any none unique that attains legendary as i recall it.

[Lemurian1972]

Messaggio originale di Reaver79:

You wont find any none unique that attains legendary as i recall it.

Sure you will. The quality rank of grays is all about the level of the NPCs. I've gotten plenty of Legendary gray gear, though all of it becomes vendor trash because it's worth far more to me than trying to use something without bonus abilities.

[Reffy]

I play on PotD difficulty, with level scaling upwards only. I'm now lv20 and attacking all ships. Still no legendary gear. Superb was the best thing I saw, but you have to hope that the enemies are using the gear you want.

I also find it difficult to find 5 capes of deflection +4, or 10 rings of deflection +2 for instance.