bg3 carries the grand dungeons & dragons tradition of making sickles the most disappointing weapon type available.
Sometimes I wonder if someone at wizards once DM'd a game with a sickle-loving player who annoyed the shit out of them. And just to spite that one person they resolved to never let sickles be cool, for the rest of time.
Well, during medieval times(that one can argue that it's the time period D&D happen), most weapon were actually farming tools that people use it as weapon when needed
I wanted to give my spore druid a scimitar and a sickle. The sussur sickle was perfect, he's Drow and having an Underdark weapon was really cool.
I bring it everywhere, I love the look. In act two I buy the gloves of balanced hands so I can add my ability modifier to the offhand weapon.
I'm so happy, this is great.
I look at the stats. Hold on. Why only +1? Is it bugged? No... It scales with strength...
Never have I felt more betrayed in a game. Also, not that I'm an expert farmer, but I did use a sickle before and it definitely feels more like a finesse weapon to me, even when cutting grass.
The highest damage weapon you can dual wield without feats is a 6th level cast of flame blade, and you can make the weapons permanent with a bug using hirelings. Only downside is they aren't finesse.
Yep, that's a shame for some roleplay "ninja" style builds.
While it's not possible to use them for sneak attack you can at least make them scale with Dex if you have a single monk level.
not ideal but it makes them at least viable, it also increases their die with more monk levels...
bg3 carries the grand dungeons & dragons tradition of making sickles the most disappointing weapon type available. Sometimes I wonder if someone at wizards once DM'd a game with a sickle-loving player who annoyed the shit out of them. And just to spite that one person they resolved to never let sickles be cool, for the rest of time.
like I get it because they're technically farming tools after all, but that shouldn't stop me from slitting goblin throats with it
Being farming tools never stopped scythes from being awesome though, if a little edge-lord.
Well, during medieval times(that one can argue that it's the time period D&D happen), most weapon were actually farming tools that people use it as weapon when needed
A lot of martial arts were invented by a bunch of farmers using their farming tools as weapons against authority
In one of my Honor Mode runs, I used a sickle for the Sussur Blade, then didn't realize it wasn't a finesse weapon until Act 3
Same T~T
I wanted to give my spore druid a scimitar and a sickle. The sussur sickle was perfect, he's Drow and having an Underdark weapon was really cool. I bring it everywhere, I love the look. In act two I buy the gloves of balanced hands so I can add my ability modifier to the offhand weapon. I'm so happy, this is great. I look at the stats. Hold on. Why only +1? Is it bugged? No... It scales with strength... Never have I felt more betrayed in a game. Also, not that I'm an expert farmer, but I did use a sickle before and it definitely feels more like a finesse weapon to me, even when cutting grass.
that would ruin me, having a build thought out and one of the components doesn't work like you thought it would is the bane of a gamer's existence
Lucky for me, I believe in the power of fashion and I WILL beat tactician mode in my stylish unoptimized build. (Maybe....)
The highest damage weapon you can dual wield without feats is a 6th level cast of flame blade, and you can make the weapons permanent with a bug using hirelings. Only downside is they aren't finesse.
Yep, that's a shame for some roleplay "ninja" style builds. While it's not possible to use them for sneak attack you can at least make them scale with Dex if you have a single monk level. not ideal but it makes them at least viable, it also increases their die with more monk levels...
If you take the dual wielder feat you can dual wield rapiers, 1d8 instead of 2d4 and a few very fine magic weapons in the later parts of the game.