What are the best/worst weapons for Weapon Focus/Specialization

[Winterclaw42]

The first character I made for P:K was a paladin, and knowing how important hitting things is, I gave that character both the exotic weapon mastery and the weapon focus for bastard swords, so I could sword and board. Then the other day I was reading on the boards how there weren't really any good bastard swords in the game or long swords for that matter.

That got me to wondering, what are the best and worst weapons in the game for picking a weapon focus or specialization for? Unlike a PnP game where a GM might let you switch weapons on a level up, you are kind of locked into your choices with no idea if those choices are going to pay off in the end.

[Kerrovitarr]

Originally posted by Evalle:

Endless War: +5 Greatsword (around lvl10). Although it has Vicious ability, means it adds +2d6dmg to enemy and d6 to self. Not sure if barb (or late fighter) DR can negate self dmg.

Where did you find this?
Btw, there's set of Mother kukri. Iirc, another Mother's kukri is in the same location with 1d6 fire damage.

[Evalle]

Originally posted by Kerrovitarr:

Originally posted by Evalle:

Endless War: +5 Greatsword (around lvl10). Although it has Vicious ability, means it adds +2d6dmg to enemy and d6 to self. Not sure if barb (or late fighter) DR can negate self dmg.

Where did you find this?
Btw, there's set of Mother kukri. Iirc, another Mother's kukri is in the same location with 1d6 fire damage.

+5 Greatsword i mentioned was a drop from Dugath, who sided with defaced sisters vs me in barbarian camp (act III)

[Blackdragon]

Originally posted by Evalle:

Originally posted by Kerrovitarr:

Where did you find this?
Btw, there's set of Mother kukri. Iirc, another Mother's kukri is in the same location with 1d6 fire damage.

+5 Greatsword i mentioned was a drop from Dugath, who sided with defaced sisters vs me in barbarian camp (act III)

So speccing in greatsword is fine, I guess.

[Kyutaru]

I am not saying that scimitar is the best specialization in the game but scimitar is the best specialization in the game hands down.

https://imgur.com/a/wANwrpL

[JODEGAFUN]

Originally posted by Yograin:

There are very few daggers but I have found 3 Kukris in the +3 range. (no +3 class dagger yet)

you can found a+ 4 dagger with perma haste in ac2, but it is well guarded.

[Dreth Syg]

I've only just started Act 2, but are there ever any Bardiches? I started with one as a reach fighter (I wanted to be a reach and trip fighter, but they apparently don't even have any reach+trip weapons in the game) but have not seen any in stores or from loot. So my charcter is nearly level 6 but is still having to use a regular bardiche.

[Thrax]

Power weapons.
For reach and crit range Fauchard
For two handed crit range Falchion.
For Vital Strike Greatsword/Falchion
Disgustingly powerful 1handed exotic Falcata.

Cool stuff.
Shield Bash.
Punching Dagger
Sickle.
Kukari.
Dueling Sword.

[charles leshrac]

Originally posted by Kyutaru:

I am not saying that scimitar is the best specialization in the game but scimitar is the best specialization in the game hands down.

https://imgur.com/a/wANwrpL

Where can you find the Thundering Claw of the Bear God?

[Dreth Syg]

Originally posted by John:

Power weapons.
For reach and crit range Fauchard
For two handed crit range Falchion.
For Vital Strike Greatsword/Falchion
Disgustingly powerful 1handed exotic Falcata.

Cool stuff.
Shield Bash.
Punching Dagger
Sickle.
Kukari.
Dueling Sword.

Ah, I didn't know about the Fauchard. I haven't played PnP Pathfinder for several years, and I see they just introduced it about a year ago. Thanks for letting me know! I also went back to old saves to check vendors for items they sell and which I sold to them and see that Oleg sells a masterwork fauchard, so that's nice. I haven't found or seen any other ones though but, as I said, I'm still early in Act 2. Has anyone seen any decent fauchards later in the game? If so, I'll probably have to use that respec tool to spec into fauchards.

The game still needs some kind of way to acquire magical weapons of any type though, whether that be merchants rotating random items they sell every month, the introduction of a crafting system, or being able to special order an item and having to wait a while for it to arrive.

[KORJ]

Originally posted by chaylafaysky:

At the moment there are no lists of weapons

Weapons
 Arcane Protector
Melee; 1d4 (19-20x2) [Piercing damage]
This +1 dagger is specifically designed to be used by mages, so they can protect themselves and deflect attacks in any environment, giving its user +3 dodge bonus to AC and immunity to
Nauseated condition.
 Bastard Sword
Melee; 1d10 (19-20x2) [Slashing damage]
 Battleaxe
Melee; 1d8 (20x3) [Slashing damage]
 Blowgun
Ranged; 20 ft.; 1d2 (20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Bola
Ranged; 30 ft.; 1d4 (20x2) [Bludgeoning damage]
 Club
Melee; 1d6 (20x2) [Bludgeoning damage]
 Composite Longbow
Ranged (two-handed); 50 ft.; 1d8 (20x3) [Piercing damage]
 Composite Shortbow
Ranged (two-handed); 40 ft.; 1d6 (20x3) [Piercing damage]
 Dagger
Melee; 1d4 (19-20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Dart
Ranged; 20 ft.; 1d4 (20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Deadly Grace
Melee; 1d6 (18-20x2) [Piercing damage]
It’s a rapier, which critical chance is doubled, attacks with it add wielder's dexterity bonus to
damage instead of strength bonus and every time an enemy is hit with it, he must roll Fortitude
against DC 15 or be injected with acid that deals 2d4 damage every round for 3 rounds.
 Devourer of Metal
Ranged (two-handed); 50 ft.; 1d8 (20x3) [Piercing damage]
This hulking Longbow +1 looks like it was created not to slay enemies with precision, but to annihilate them with sheer power. It deals 2d6 damage and additional 2d6 damage by acid to pierce through most powerful of armors, yet its clumsiness and weight impose -2 penalty on attack with it.

[KORJ]

 Dueling Sword
Melee; 1d8 (19-20x2) [Slashing damage]
 Dwarven Waraxe
Melee; 1d10 (20x3) [Slashing damage]
 Earth Breaker
Melee (two-handed); 2d6 (20x3) [Bludgeoning damage]
 Elven Curved Blade
Melee (two-handed); 1d10 (18-20x2) [Slashing damage]
 Estoc
Melee; 2d4 (18-20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Falcata
Melee; 1d8 (19-20x3) [Slashing damage]
 Falchion
Melee (two-handed); 2d4 (18-20x2) [Slashing damage]
 Flail
Melee; 1d8 (20x2) [Bludgeoning damage]
 Glaive
Melee (two-handed); 10 ft.; 1d10 (20x3) [Slashing damage]
 Greataxe
Melee (two-handed); 1d12 (20x3) [Slashing damage]
 Greatclub
Melee (two-handed); 1d10 (20x2) [Bludgeoning damage]
 Greatsword
Melee (two-handed); 2d6 (19-20x2) [Slashing damage]
 Hand Crossbow
Ranged; 30 ft.; 1d4 (19-20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Handaxe
Melee; 1d6 (20x3) [Slashing damage]
 Heavy Crossbow
Ranged (two-handed); 50 ft.; 1d10 (19-20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Heavy Flail
Melee (two-handed); 1d10 (19-20x2) [Bludgeoning damage]
 Heavy Mace
Melee; 1d8 (20x2) [Bludgeoning damage]
 Heavy Pick
Melee; 1d6 (20x4) [Piercing damage]
 Heavy Repeating Crossbow
Ranged (two-handed); 50 ft.; 1d10 (19-20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Javelin
Ranged; 30 ft.; 1d6 (20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Kama
Melee; 1d6 (20x2) [Slashing damage]
 Kukri
Melee; 1d6 (18-20x2) [Slashing damage]
 Large Bastard Sword
Melee (two-handed); 2d8 (19-20x2) [Slashing damage]
 Light Crossbow
Ranged (two-handed); 50 ft.; 1d8 (19-20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Light Hammer
Melee; 1d4 (20x3) [Bludgeoning damage]
 Light mace
Melee; 1d6 (20x2) [Bludgeoning damage]
 Light Pick
Melee; 1d4 (20x4) [Piercing damage]
 Light Repeating Crossbow
Ranged (two-handed); 50 ft.; 1d8 (19-20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Light shield
Melee; 1d4 (20x2) [Bludgeoning damage]
 Light shield
Melee; 1d6 (20x2) [Bludgeoning damage]
 Lightning Duelist
Melee; 1d4 (19-20x2) [Piercing damage]
This +1 dagger is specifically designed for use in duels, giving its wielder a +4 insight bonus to
initiative and +1 dodge bonus to AC. Attacks with it deal additional 1d6 lightning damage.
 Longbow
Ranged (two-handed); 50 ft.; 1d8 (20x3) [Piercing damage]
 Longspear
Melee (two-handed); 10 ft.; 1d8 (20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Longsword
Melee; 1d8 (19-20x2) [Slashing damage]

[KORJ]

 Nunchaku
Melee; 1d6 (20x2) [Bludgeoning damage]
 Punching Dagger
Melee; 1d4 (20x3) [Piercing damage]
 Quarterstaff
Melee (two-handed); 1d6 (20x2) [Bludgeoning damage]
 Rapier
Melee; 1d6 (18-20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Sai
Melee; 1d4 (20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Scepter of Denial
Melee; 2d6 (20x2) [Bludgeoning damage]
This +3 Heavy Mace deals 2d6 damage instead of 1d8 and makes wearer move as if under
continuous Freedom of Movement spell.
 Scimitar
Melee; 1d6 (18-20x2) [Slashing damage]
 Scythe
Melee (two-handed); 2d4 (20x4) [Slashing damage]
 Shortbow
Ranged (two-handed); 40 ft.; 1d6 (20x3) [Piercing damage]
 Shortspear
Melee; 1d6 (20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Shortsword
Melee; 1d6 (19-20x2) [Slashing damage]
 Shuriken
Ranged; 20 ft.; 1d2 (20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Siangham
Melee; 1d6 (20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Sickle
Melee; 1d6 (20x2) [Slashing damage]
 Sling
Ranged; 40 ft.; 1d4 (20x2) [Bludgeoning damage]
 Sling Staff
Ranged (two-handed); 50 ft.; 1d8 (20x3) [Bludgeoning damage]
 Spear
Melee (two-handed); 1d8 (20x3) [Piercing damage]
 Spiked Heavy Shield
Melee; 1d4 (20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Spiked light shield
Melee; 1d3 (20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Starknife
Melee; 1d4 (20x3) [Piercing damage]
 The Crusher
Melee (two-handed); 2d8 (20x2) [Bludgeoning damage]
This Large Greatclub +2 appears surprisingly light in your hand. Medium creatures can use it
with only -2 penalty.
 Tongi
Melee; 1d6 (19-20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Torch
Melee; 1d3 (20x2) [Bludgeoning damage]
 Trident
Melee (two-handed); 1d8 (20x2) [Piercing damage]
 Trollreaper
Melee (two-handed); 1d12 (20x3) [Slashing damage]
This Greataxe +1 deals an additional 1d6 acid damage on every hit.
 Warhammer
Melee; 1d8 (20x3) [Bludgeoning damage]

[KORJ]

Best weapons

 Battleaxe
 Composite Longbow
 Dagger
 Dueling Sword
 Estoc
 Falcata
 Handaxe
 Heavy Crossbow
 Kukri
 Rapier
 Scimitar
 Scythe
 Warhammer
 Light Pick

[Alias]

The problem is without crafting or enchanting the best weapons are entirely left to treasure you find, and you don't know what the treasure is the first time you play the game.

[chaylafaysky]

Originally posted by Alias:

The problem is without crafting or enchanting the best weapons are entirely left to treasure you find, and you don't know what the treasure is the first time you play the game.

Exactly... especially since everything in this game is specifically placed... it's not randomly generated... so there should be a file or list of all of the weapons... and reading through the .json files I do see references to inventory items, but they are just long strings of numbers and letters, like this:

"m_Inventory": {
"$id": "6",
"m_Items": [{
"$id": "7",
"$type": "Kingmaker.Items.ItemEntityArmor, Assembly-CSharp",
"m_ModifierDescriptor": "Armor",
"m_Modifiers": null,
"m_DexBonusLimeterAC": null,
"m_Blueprint": "afbe88d27a0eb544583e00fa78ffb2c7",
"m_Count": 1,
"m_InventorySlotIndex": 0,
"m_Enchantments": null,
"m_DescriptionViewed": false,
"m_FactsAppliedToWielder": null,
"m_SkinningSuccessful": false,
"m_IdentifyRolls": [],
"Collection": {
"$ref": "6"
},
"Wielder": null,
"HoldingSlot": null,
"Time": "12:00:00",
"Ability": null,
"ActivatableAbility": null,
"Charges": 0,
"IsIdentified": true,
"SellTime": null,
"IsNonRemovable": false
}, {
"$id": "8",
"$type": "Kingmaker.Items.ItemEntityWeapon, Assembly-CSharp",
"Second": null,
"m_Blueprint": "1546a05eb151d424eb9132832d5511bb",
"m_Count": 1,
"m_InventorySlotIndex": 1,
"m_Enchantments": null,
"m_DescriptionViewed": false,
"m_FactsAppliedToWielder": null,
"m_SkinningSuccessful": false,
"m_IdentifyRolls": [],
"ForceSecondary": false,
"IsSecondPartOfDoubleWeapon": false,
"IsShield": false,
"Collection": {
"$ref": "6"
},
"Wielder": null,
"HoldingSlot": null,
"Time": "12:00:00",
"Ability": null,
"ActivatableAbility": null,
"Charges": 0,
"IsIdentified": true,
"SellTime": null,
"IsNonRemovable": false

I believe that these indicate armor and a sword in my character's inventory, with the "blueprint" being the id of the actual item... I do not know where to look for the actual items within the files however... and searching them all, one at a time would be a real pain... but if I could find the blueprint of the item, then I could theoretically edit the weapon or armor however I wanted...