Are there any good shortspears?

[Maganor]

I wanted to do a Tank-Build with Spear/Shield... are there any good shortspears in the game? And where could i find them?

[Kyun]

There is a very good shortspear in about the middle of the game (you can buy it from a vendor at the pitax tournament, its called mourning, is+4 has keen (double crit range) has chance to cast finger of death on crit and crushing despair on hit, happens quite regularly (multiple times per enemy).).

[Marneus]

There are two +4 Shortspears in the game, nothing better, and the rest is basically not that good. So yeah maybe not the best choice. Unless you use an editor to give you some weapons because you won't find much shortspear in the game beside the one Wie talked about (which is kinda far in the game) and an other one.

[Autocthon]

Honestly Mourning is probably good enough to be "worth" it. Depends on what you wanted to compare it to.

It also depends a little on what class we're trying to do it with. With a fighter? Full martial proficiency means you have a lot of better options. With an Inquisitor or Bard? Much more likely to be a decent option.

And of course if you're playing a Paladin weapon bond does a good job of reducing the need for an actual +5 weapon in a sword and board build. The spell on hit effects are actually decent. Which means it's a question of what weapon you really want to be wielding.

[Reaver79]

Originally posted by wie Ebenholz:

happens quite regularly (multiple times per enemy)

Would that not be up to pure luck? crits is after all a random thing..

[Autocthon]

Originally posted by Reaver79:

Originally posted by wie Ebenholz:

happens quite regularly (multiple times per enemy)

Would that not be up to pure luck? crits is after all a random thing..

I assumed he was referring to bot heffects not just one.

Though as for luck. A Keen shortspear threatens in 10% of hits. If you're getting 3 attacks per round then you expect to threaten a critical about 28% of rounds. If the fight goes for three rounds you expect to have crit by then over half the time.

So how long are our fights agaisnt single enemies? Depends. The lower your chance of hitting the more rounds, and the more of your actual hits are critical threats.

[Kyun]

i was indeed referring to both effects. (to give more context regarding the "has a chance to cast" part).