Whips: Underpowered?

[Olywynn]

So, choosing to use a whip is usually nerfing yourself, on any server.  1d2 damage, x2 crit.  Not much there for damage.  The main pull for a whip is one: it's a whip, and whips are cool.  And two: it gives disarm for free.  However, on PoTM, everyone has disarm, so that point's moot.

So, I was wondering.  Why not give all the whips Improved Disarm to make up for it?

[HellsPanda]

The is a "whip" that is technically among the most powerfull non magical weapons on the server.

[McNastea]

So, choosing to use a whip is usually nerfing yourself, on any server.  1d2 damage, x2 crit.  Not much there for damage.  The main pull for a whip is one: it's a whip, and whips are cool.  And two: it gives disarm for free.  However, on PoTM, everyone has disarm, so that point's moot.

So, I was wondering.  Why not give all the whips Improved Disarm to make up for it?

I suggested this a while back actually, don't think the idea really went anywhere but I agree. With disarm given out to everyone already it pretty much makes whips worthless functionally and leaves them as more of a nice flavor sort of weapon.

[Knas]

It's a neat idea.

[TheGrinningHound]

Yar! Seems like the vanilla whips were supposed to be neat because they offered disarm. If we're interested in keeping that benefit, having improved disarm feels like a logical step.

[Gutshank]

Olywynn's forum account must have been compromised. Whoever hacked it posted a good idea. It Defiantly can not be Olywynn.

 

[Olywynn]

Olywynn's forum account must have been compromised. Whoever hacked it posted a good idea. It Defiantly can not be Olywynn.

 

[Olywynn]

Bumping this, for the good of all Lawgiver Clerics!

[The Prophet of Misinformation]

Bumping this, for the good of all Lawgiver Clerics!

I'd add a badass whip to Sithicus but due to the present item creation rules, it can't be more than 2000 gold. Which makes it limited to suck.

[qwertyuioppp]

Bumping this, for the good of all Lawgiver Clerics!

I'd add a badass whip to Sithicus but due to the present item creation rules, it can't be more than 2000 gold. Which makes it limited to suck.

Is that 2000 Zimbabwean gold pieces or 2000 US gold pieces? I'm sure there's some sort of exchange rate exploit that will let us have badass whips.

[Olywynn]

Bumping this, for the good of all Lawgiver Clerics!

I'd add a badass whip to Sithicus but due to the present item creation rules, it can't be more than 2000 gold. Which makes it limited to suck.

That's unfortunate.  We could really use a high end whip that actually does some decent damage, aside from Vampire Killer (Which I haven't seen in ages.)

Plus, a good Lawgiver needs a whip that tears into living people!

[Kendric98]

Bumping this, for the good of all Lawgiver Clerics!

I'd add a badass whip to Sithicus but due to the present item creation rules, it can't be more than 2000 gold. Which makes it limited to suck.

That rule shouldn't apply to Sithicus. If good items dropped there people might be willing to risk going.

[booksarefun666]

Depends on how whip-like your whip to be, the oriental whips that one guy sells east of the city is 1d10 damage total (1d2 slashing/1d8 bludgeoning) so it's not the worst weapon but it looks exactly like what it says on the tin: A giant link of chains connected to each other.