Weaponry

A huge variety of different weapon types and individual weapons may be used in Avaria. Each particular weapon comes with its own style, drawbacks, abilities, and general intricacies. A heavier weapon will generally be slower to swing. A lighter weapon will be quicker and allow you to riposte, but perhaps fail to deal the intensive damage that, say, a two-handed battleaxe might regularly be capable of inflicting.

You can STUDY all weapons that you're holding in order to get a fairly good understanding of their physical traits, but you will need to learn how to use a weapon -- in other words, to invest points in its related skill -- to truly comprehend its abilities. As you learn and improve your skill with a weapon, you will gradually gain abilities that unlock moves you can use in combat. Some moves will be passive, others will be wind-up moves in order to prepare for other moves, and still others will be very powerful combat-finishers.

Weapon Types

Weapon Type	Description
Blowguns	Projectile weapons from the tropical forests of Idiri.
Bolas	Ranged weapons used to incapacitate a target.
Boomerang	Wooden ranged weapons from the Desert of Fallen Stars.
Flails	Peasant flails, ball-and-chains, etc.
Heavy Swords	Broadswords, etc.
Javelins	Skill in throwing spears, including light javelins and assegais.
Knives	Daggers, stilettos, khanjars, and other short blades for close and stealthy combat.
Light Swords	Leaf-blade swords, flyssas, cutlasses, rapiers, etc.
Medium Swords	Scimitars, sabers, shotels, etc.
One-Handed Axes	Small battlaxes, horsemen's axes, etc.
One-Handed Maces	Small flanged, spiked, and ball maces; war hammers, etc.
Polearms	Heavy spears, pikes, glaives, halberds, etc.
Slings	Slings and slingshots.
Staves	Quarterstaves, donga, canes, etc.
Two-Handed Axes	Large battleaxes.
Two-Handed Maces	Large flanged and spiked maces.
Two-Handed Swords	Greatswords, flamberges, etc.
Whips	Bullwhips, sjamboks, etc.