User:Ickputzdirwech/Weapons

Summary

This page is supposed to provide some data for comparison between different melee weapons.

Comparison tables

The following tables compares the DPS of weapons of the same material and quality.

• Since you realistically only ever want to make sharp weapons out of plasteel, steel or uranium, only those materials are considered.
• Melee hit chance can be ignored, since we look only at relative differences.

Longsword vs. Spear

Green indicates, that the longsword is better, red the spear.

Baseline human

Longsword vs. Spear

Quality
Awful	0.4768%	0.7825%	−0.7576%
Poor	0.2132%	0.561%	−0.8141%
Normal	−1.5195%	0.2538%	−0.9816%
Good	1.8135%	0.1159%	−1.2318%
Excellent	1.8211%	−0.1066%	−1.3388%
Masterwork	1.7682%	0.9624%	−0.4963%
Legendary	1.7847%	0.9224%	−0.5814%

Archotech arms

Longsword vs. Spear

Quality
Awful	1.9451%	2.3988%	0.8746%
Poor	1.5416%	1.8868%	0.3927%
Normal	1.2127%	1.5912%	0.1188%
Good	0.9394%	1.2332%	−0.1088%
Excellent	0.788%	1.1387%	−0.3009%
Masterwork	0.3298%	0.6938%	−0.755%
Legendary	−1.2666%	0.307%	−0.9651%

Conclusions

• Whether the longsword or spear has more DPS is dependant on:
  • Mostly the chosen material.
  • Somewhat the achieved quality.
  • Somewhat on the attacks available to the pawn. Default attacks: left fist, right fist, teeth, head. Changed by injuries and artificial body parts (e.g. bionic or archotech arms, elbow blades , knee spikes or venom fangs ).
• However, for materials you actually want to choose (plasteel, steel or uranium), the differences rarely reach 2%.

Conclusion: As for pure DPS there is no clear winner between longsword and spear.

Spear vs. Mace

Green indicates, that the longsword is better, red the spear.

Baseline human

Spear vs. Mace

Quality
Awful	34.6709%	12.3023%	−12.8137%
Poor	35.7453%	12.8165%	−12.5741%
Normal	38.9182%	13.3813%	−12.3656%
Good	40.1937%	14.0026%	−12.1927%
Excellent	41.2752%	14.3902%	−12.0471%
Masterwork	43.65%	17.1107%	−12.8335%
Legendary	33.4101%	18.0581%	−12.801%