Oil Sword

[alexshiro]

It seems completely useless, with bad DPS, attack rhythm and reach, and oiling not really doing anything? Like, it ads a trivial amount of damage to fire and makes 1 weapon crit?

Am I missing anything or is it really really ♥♥♥♥?

[onLooSe]

You are missing plenty... It does wonders with every fire gear out there and tbf the attack pattern isn't that bad for brutality weapon

[alexshiro]

So how much does oil add to fire?

[onLooSe]

It was around 20-30% for damage over time from old testings that ppl had done. The sword itself has pretty high DMG when you don't look at crits. You can ignite both oil on enemies and oil on the ground as well and the damage increase really adds up... I can't see any problem with it myself, but different people... different expectations... blah blah.

[SilkySmooth]

dont forget that throwable ice weapon that crits with oil doused enemies

[nightshift]

It has THE highest base damage of ANY melee weapons excluding the Cursed Sword.

So if these kind of attributes matter to the OP... oh wait, he said that it has BAD DPS, wow. Then nevermind:) I think his true problem might not actually be in relation to the game. If you know what I mean.

[alexshiro]

What the hell? Highest damage? Are you sure?

[onLooSe]

It's the highest base damage for Brutality melee weapon in the current live version of the game >

https://deadcells.gamepedia.com/Gear#Melee_Weapons

Of course you have some of the Survival weapons doing more damage, but on the cost of worse wind up times. If you don't synergise with it you are better off using something else if you don't find the moveset to your liking.

The Breach dmg it does is 53 per hit and because it's 2 hit combo this adds up to 106. This is pretty decent compared to faster weapons.

[Gem of Temporarity]

Originally posted by nightshiftgamer:

It has THE highest base damage of ANY melee weapons excluding the Cursed Sword.

Really? Higher than symmetrical lance's?

[Schaubbit]

Originally posted by Gem of Temporarity:

Originally posted by nightshiftgamer:

It has THE highest base damage of ANY melee weapons excluding the Cursed Sword.

Really? Higher than symmetrical lance's?

Thats Brut/Surv

[Schaubbit]

Also, don't forget pyrotechnics crits oiled as well.

[nightshift]

Upon double checking the wiki-page Broadsword and Symmetrical Lance does more damage (although they're slower) that's true. But yeah, Oiled Sword is good since it has two fast hits like the Cursed Sword. If you get one that burns enemies upon their death it's automatically an oiled fire which is nice. It also comes with +100% damage to burning mobs quite often.
Still not my favourite, but I certainly not think it's as useless as this thread implies. Each time I pick it up I always find it more effective that the credit I give in advance.

[Schaubbit]

Originally posted by nightshiftgamer:

Upon double checking the wiki-page Broadsword and Symmetrical Lance does more damage (although they're slower) that's true. But yeah, Oiled Sword is good since it has two fast hits like the Cursed Sword. If you get one that burns enemies upon their death it's automatically an oiled fire which is nice. It also comes with +100% damage to burning mobs quite often.
Still not my favourite, but I certainly not think it's as useless as this thread implies. Each time I pick it up I always find it more effective that the credit I give in advance.

As I pointed out earlier, those are brut/surv weapons, the Oil Sword is pure brut.

[Gem of Temporarity]

Originally posted by Schaubbit:

As I pointed out earlier, those are brut/surv weapons, the Oil Sword is pure brut.

That doesn't change much. Dual-scales scale with higher stat not both of them.

[A̵̡͆ ̷͝Ĺ̷̺ ȋ̶v ?]

Apart from what already been told (big base damage and decent dps/patern for a brutal) you can also use it as your firestarter (oil) in your secondary weapong , letting you use double abilities

So you can for exemple build a full Tactical build with double Heavy Turrets that would hopefully have a fire bonus , use a Bow as main weapon so you can do critical fire damage with your Oil Weapon that also ignite the ground as onLooSe pointed out


You can do this with a Brutality weapon too, using a Fire Grenade and the oil sword to maximize the impact and any other thing as main weapon...

You get the idea, the goal would be to let you use two abilty
It"s a different way of playing , that"s all.

[onLooSe]

I will dare to post my run from the Daily today, because I had a lot of fun with the oiled sword and hopefully the OP can understand why.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1578831118

On top of that... it's my first live commentary so I'm really sorry if it's not the quality most ppl here expect. I suppose one day I can get there. Still number 1 though.