Hi y’all! Thinking about playing a melee combatant, likely a Warpriest or Fighter, and I’m wondering (assuming a GM running the AP loot as is, what weapons (only if you can try to tell me without spoiling the plot) might I wanna look at? Don’t wanna Favored Weapon Bardiche, por ejemplo, to discover they don’t make them in Ustalav.
Thanks in advance for the tips.
As a warpriest or cleric (ideally of Pharasma), heavy mace. I know it might seem old-fashioned, cliched, or just not very appealing (I know the idea of a 1d8 weapon with no improved crit range/multiplier is anathema to a lot of players) but trust me.
As a fighter, IMO you can never go wrong with the tried-and-true longsword.
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I second Sandal Fury's suggestions...
First time I ran this AP I had a player who ran a Paladin of Iomedai who decided that Nodachi was the best weapon - even after I pointed out that Iomedai weapon was a longsword... sigh. He had such problems improving his primary weapon...
In my current campaign, the primary fighter type has decided that he wants to go with an Estoc... Weapon Focus as one of his starting feats and all that. Sigh... yeah. I can foresee many of the same issues ahead in this run of the AP...
Best run I had was the player whose marshal character didn't settle on a weapon selection until level 7 or 8, and then did like you are here and asked the GM (me) for suggestions... For his first 7 levels he used whatever good weapon he could salvage during the adventure - switching off as they advanced in level - once in the middle of a fight.