# Talk:Weapon
Contents

1 Breaking
2 Weapon choice
3 Two handed weapon bonus
4 Curved hook?
5 todos
6 Small vs. Large monster chart

Breaking
Is there a possibility of weapons breaking? I know that if you force the lock of a chest or box with edged weapons, they can break. But recently, when I killed a dwarf I got the message 'The dwarf's broad short sword shatters from the force of your blow!' How is this possible? (If it makes a difference, that was the killing blow.) --206.75.108.8 01:49, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

620.  			/*
621.  			 * 2.5% chance of shattering defender's weapon when
622.  			 * using a two-handed weapon; less if uwep is rusted.
623.  			 * [dieroll == 2 is most successful non-beheading or
624.  			 * -bisecting hit, in case of special artifact damage;
625.  			 * the percentage chance is (1/20)*(50/100).]
626.  			 */uhitm.c#line620

Addps4cat 04:04, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

Weapon choice
There should be a section on which weapon to choose. Tjr 01:03, 15 May 2009 (UTC)

I was considering trying to make a spreadsheet with a listing of all the monsters, their size, etc, alongside all the weapon damages (including artifacts) and weighting them (in the sense of a weighted average) against their challenge rating... would create a figure that allows sorting which weapons are the best. Be a heckuva project, though it'd be pretty nice to have here eventually. Eh, give me a few weeks, few months maybe. Feagradze 13:57, June 29, 2010 (UTC)
Whew, I'm a long way from done, but I did include a strategy section just now with a spiffy chart. It's pretty primitive, and I'll have to revise it about four times, but at least it's something. Feagradze 06:32, July 11, 2010 (UTC)
That's some good work. --FJH 03:09, 26 December 2010 (UTC)
Two handed weapon bonus
Does attacking with two handed weapons give a damage bonus, other than as above? In DnD you would get +50% to your Strength bonus.--PeterGFin 04:17, January 10, 2010 (UTC)

Curved hook?
I recently found a curved hook.  Didn't know what to do with it.  Don't see it mentioned on wikihack.  Was playing on alt.org/nethack/soiled.  Is this someones code alteration or has wikihack neglected mention, or what? --Slarty 18:48, July 1, 2010 (UTC)

todos
monster use of weapons (currently on the pet page) and ranged weapons
weapon choice for the player
how to find out enchantment (formal ID, price)
weapons to avoid because their skill is a dead end
link to multishot, artifact weapon, twoweapon etc.
--Tjr 10:12, 12 January 2011 (UTC)

Small vs. Large monster chart
Currently this chart just shows the raw count (including uniques, such as quest nemeses, which really shouldn't be there); would anyone with more scripting skills than I be able to make a chart weighted by monster frequency?  That would give a reasonably accurate impression of the relative frequency of the various sizes - it still wouldn't account for things such as barracks or graveyards, but it'd be more informative than the current chart I'd think. -Ion frigate 06:30, 18 December 2011 (UTC)