You get a malachite and silver-inlaid katar from inside your weapons belt.

>look at kat

Well polished stones of malachite have been painstakingly inlaid into the hilt. Silver has been worked throughout the blade and a tiny paisley design has been etched into its tip.

>app kat

It is a light edged type weapon.

You guess that it could do:
no puncture damage
low slice damage
fair impact damage

You estimate that the katar is dismally balanced and is reasonably suited to gaining extra attack power from your strength.

You are confident that the silver-inlaid katar is of average strength, and is in pristine condition.

The silver-inlaid katar is made with metal.
The silver-inlaid katar feels pretty light.
You are confident that the silver-inlaid katar is worth about 26712 lirums.

A couple questions...First off what is a Katar? Didnt find anything on dictionary.com and I like having a mental image of what my stuff is, heh. Also, is my appraisal terrible or does this seem worth a bit much for something that is useless besides looking good?


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~Meis
Madness is coming your way. ~K.K.

<<Right now the templates for forged LE's arent that great

Heh, they are pretty aweful from what i understand. I hope we get the new template sometime soon. Alot of cool things can be done with a halfway workable templates. its on my HSN wish list.

-Gred
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Klatu...verata.....ni....Necktie... Nickel... It's an "N" word, it's definitely an "N" word!

As I mentioned in the General folder, I'm looking to get a slicing LE. When I had my bard down shopping in the sutler's wagon down by in Blackthorn Canyon, I saw they had a katar down there. Unfortunately, Inigoe's doesn't have it listed, so I was wondering if it would be better to buy a katar or a leaf-blade.

Anyone have a certain for the brass-hilted blackened katar so I can compare them? Or a preference between the two?

Amagaim; the player of,

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Keep your chin up. You'll look tougher than you are. You'll also be accused of having an "attitude." Punch them in the groin and tell them you don't HAVE an attitude.

---Signs Of Your Life, Hentaraen 3, 3

Well, right now I'm not sure I can afford a forged katar. Only 13 plat kronars in the bank right now, which is why I was asking about store-bought weapons.

As for stats, it's for a Prydaen bard with 19 STR, 19 REF, 21 AGI, and 20 STA, circle 27. Could I handle the forged mod slicing katar if I was able to scrape up the coin?

Amagaim; the player of,

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Keep your chin up. You'll look tougher than you are. You'll also be accused of having an "attitude." Punch them in the groin and tell them you don't HAVE an attitude.

---Signs Of Your Life, Hentaraen 3, 3

>>>You could easily. The katar is a light edge after all.

Not if it's very light and I want to leave out conspicuous gaps in my attack patterns to catch my breath... Feels awkward to go through two attack sequences at full tilt, then wait 5 seconds between a slice and a chop to catch my breath. And that was with the stout short sword.

Basicaly, I'd love 30 stones or more. Keep my roundtimes out of the 1/1/2 range if at all possible until I can get that stamina up higher.

Amagaim; the player of,

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Keep your chin up. You'll look tougher than you are. You'll also be accused of having an "attitude." Punch them in the groin and tell them you don't HAVE an attitude.

---Signs Of Your Life, Hentaraen 3, 3

Thanks, Wig. I'm guessing that information puts me in the market for one, if I can find one in my price range. If not, then I'll live with the one in the wagon until I can afford one.

Amagaim; the player of,

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Keep your chin up. You'll look tougher than you are. You'll also be accused of having an "attitude." Punch them in the groin and tell them you don't HAVE an attitude.

---Signs Of Your Life, Hentaraen 3, 3

The overall effectiveness of jabbers vs. slicers is also dependent upon what defenses you are using. The manuevers for slicers and jabbers incur different penalties to different defenses.


~Bractos

Weapon Forging
A barbarian's inherent understanding of weapons makes him or her a natural at the forge. Anyone can forge a crude weapon, but only barbarians can produce legendary quality weapons sought after by all.

Talking about dodge and parry I assume...as well of the diffrant combo for an LE jabber and a LE slicer.


~Apprentice to Damaris

Yes Bractos is right, a GM posted similar just after the changes.

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In the end all things return to Chaos

>Yes Bractos is right, a GM posted similar just after the changes.

ya, anybody got that post?

brandon

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Heck no, that would ruin my destruction of the guild. I'll be aiming for the trash that everyone throws out.

GM - Talian


IRL if i'm fighting a narcoleptic and they fall asleep midway through. The fight is over.

Rebwolf

<<Why do you say that? The mod slice katars have the same balance and strength adaptation, and its really easy to get min RT on the heavier mod-slice one. So if you have min RT on both... why would you go with the weaker blade that has the least potential?>>

Old katars have much more balance and a little more suitedness to strength. That makes up for the little less in either puncture or impact depending on the forged katar.

Old katar is way better then forged katars are. Currently the best LE you can have if you ask me. Unless of course ya can uhmm use a pointy one from hiding, then there is better choices.

And just in case anyone is interested in obtaining a old katar I happen to have one for sale. Current bid is 150 and if you have more questions you can reach me via aim at ender44. Thanks

Rej

<<Old katar is way better then forged katars are. Currently the best LE you can have if you ask me. Unless of course ya can uhmm use a pointy one from hiding, then there is better choices.>>

How does this rate?

You are certain that it could do:
poor puncture damage
fair slice damage
fair impact damage

You are certain that the claw is fairly balanced and is fairly suited to gaining extra attack power from your strength.

I know there are some serious disadvantages to the claw in terms of wield requirements, but how does it rate just as an LE?

<<The disadvantage is the small shield you're stuck with in your other hand.>>

I have to agree. With Divine Armor I can get it up to "very good", which is better than nothing, but is quite a disadvantage vs. the better shields.

Still worth it though, imo.

Agreed. It fits a rather small niche of the DR population, i.e. plate-using, shield-using, LE wielders.

As a follow-up question...Does LE stand up to the higher circles, or does it fall behind the heavier blades in overall effectiveness?

hmm, how much does the lion gauntlets run for these days?

N

If you can find them for 100, that's a steal.
They've been pretty steady at 200 average for a couple years at least I'd say.


~Bractos

Weapon Forging
A barbarian's inherent understanding of weapons makes him or her a natural at the forge. Anyone can forge a crude weapon, but only barbarians can produce legendary quality weapons sought after by all.

Personally, if you can find an 'old' katar for sale I would buy it instead of the lion gauntlets. I was lucky enough to practically steal one and have loved it ever since.


-Everything I know I got by eating the brains of smart people.

If anyone has a forged moderate slicing katar that's on the light side(38 stones at most) that they're trying to sell, I'd be grateful if you could IM me at stigma21215. I'm lookin to buy one.


Call me baby-face Lei.

Greetings -

I was looking into a decent LE for a 30th circle Cleric with LE primary.

I've heard that the moderate impact katars are one of the best investments. Anyone have any comments on mod impact vs. mod slice for katar? I'm a huge fan of impact, so I tend to lean towards that myself.

On the same note, is there anyone that can forge a nice (capped I guess?) moderate impact katar. Please let me know how much and the stats - I'm currently around Crossing.

On the same note, if you also have one of those jambiya's please let me know how much for that as well. Since their popularity has dictated that they are for sale more often than for free.

Thanks Kindly!
AIM: MalletDR
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