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("Roundhouse Kick" is not necessarily an unarmed attack despite the name; it does whatever type of damage is dealt by the main-hand equipped weapon at the time it is used - so if main-hand weapons are removed to reveal the jab and uppercut attacks, "Roundhouse Kick" deals nonlethal damage like any other unarmed attack.)<br />
 
("Roundhouse Kick" is not necessarily an unarmed attack despite the name; it does whatever type of damage is dealt by the main-hand equipped weapon at the time it is used - so if main-hand weapons are removed to reveal the jab and uppercut attacks, "Roundhouse Kick" deals nonlethal damage like any other unarmed attack.)<br />
  
In border of the fogs, enemies (especially minions) might die regardless of which heart is reduced to zero.
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In border of the fogs, enemies (especially minion-types) might die regardless of which heart is reduced to zero.
  
 
If a weapon-type damages certain heart-gauges at all, it affects all damaged heart-gauges to the same degree.<br />
 
If a weapon-type damages certain heart-gauges at all, it affects all damaged heart-gauges to the same degree.<br />
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So if for example the damage-type dealt is slashing, and the armour has 5 resistance against slashing, you will take 5 less damage than you would otherwise take.  Attacks that would have dealt 6 damage deal 1, and attacks (eg doubled by defence-type or buffs) that would have dealt 12 damage deal 7, etc, but attacks that would have dealt 1 damage still deal 1.<br />
 
So if for example the damage-type dealt is slashing, and the armour has 5 resistance against slashing, you will take 5 less damage than you would otherwise take.  Attacks that would have dealt 6 damage deal 1, and attacks (eg doubled by defence-type or buffs) that would have dealt 12 damage deal 7, etc, but attacks that would have dealt 1 damage still deal 1.<br />
  
One special trait of minions is that they are the only enemy-type that you can miss:  you have to apply modifiers so that you would be doing at least double damage to the minion in order to hit. <br/>
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One special trait of minion-types is that they are the only enemy-type that you can miss:  you have to apply modifiers so that you would be doing at least double damage to the minion in order to hit. <br/>
  
 
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===Buffs and Debuffs===
 
===Buffs and Debuffs===
Every regular attack has 3 possible outcomes depending on the defensive style of your opponent. Sometimes they'll add a buff to yourself helping to mitigate certain types of damage, other times it will debuff the enemy making certain actions less effective or opening up vulnerabilities.<br />
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Every regular attack has 3 possible outcomes depending on the defensive style of your opponent.
 
 
The possible buffs with respect to specific attack types amount to:<br />
 
(1) Double damage dealt, or <br />
 
(2) Half damage received. <br />
 
  
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If the color of the attack (<font color='red'>Power</font>, <font color='green'>Speed</font> <font color='purple'>Precise</font>) matches the color of the defense (<font color='red'>Block</font>, <font color='green'>Evade</font> <font color='purple'>Counter</font>), double damage is dealt.<br/>
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If it deviates, the attacker receives a buff or the defender a debuff.
  
The possible debuffs with respect to specific attack types amount to:<br />
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{| class=wikitable
(1) Half damage dealt, or <br />
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|-
(2) Double damage received. <br />
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! vs
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! <font color='red'>Block</font>
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! <font color='green'>Evade</font>
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! <font color='purple'>Counter</font>
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|-
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! <font color='red'>Power</font>
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| 2x damage || Buff attacker || Debuff defender
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|-
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! <font color='green'>Speed</font>
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| Debuff defender || 2x damage || Buff attacker
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|-
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! <font color='purple'>Precise</font>
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| Buff attacker || Debuff defender || 2x damage
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|-
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|}
  
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A buff will either double damage dealt with a style of attack, or halve damage received from that style.<br />
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A debuff will either half damage dealth with a style of attack, or double damage received from that style.
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Whether the applied buff or debuff is the offensive or defensive variant depends on weapon or special skill used (see weapon stats below).
  
 
'''Buffs'''
 
'''Buffs'''
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
|-
 
|-
!Name !! Color !! Effect
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!Name !! Effect
 
|-
 
|-
|Adrenaline || Red || 1/2 red damage received
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|<font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font> || 1/2 damage received from <font color='red'>Power attacks</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Fury || Red || 2x red damage dealt
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|<font color='red'>🗡 Fury</font>|| 2x damage dealt with <font color='red'>Power attacks</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Evasion || Green || 1/2 green damage received
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|<font color='green'>⛊ Evasion</font> || 1/2 damage received from <font color='green'>Speed attacks</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Acceleration || Green || 2x green damage dealt
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|<font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> || 2x damage dealt with <font color='green'>Speed attacks</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Attention || Purple || 1/2 purple damage received
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|<font color='purple'>⛊ Attention</font> || 1/2 damage received from <font color='purple'>Precise attacks</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Precision || Purple || 2x purple damage dealt
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|<font color='purple'>🗡 Precision</font>|| 2x damage dealt with <font color='purple'>Precise attacks</font>
 
|-
 
|-
 
|}
 
|}
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{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
|-
 
|-
!Name !! Color !! Effect
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!Name !! Effect
 
|-
 
|-
|Unsteadiness || Red || 2x Red damage received
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|<font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness</font> || 2x damage received from <font color='red'>Power attacks</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| Weakness || Red || 1/2 Red Damage dealt
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|<font color='red'>⛓ Weakness</font>|| 1/2 damage dealt with <font color='red'>Power attacks</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Stunned || Green || 2x Green Damage received
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|<font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font> || 2x damage received from <font color='green'>Speed attacks</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Stiffness || Green || 1/2 green damage dealt
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|<font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font> || 1/2 damage dealt with <font color='green'>Speed attacks</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Distraction || Purple || 2x purple damage received
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|<font color='purple'>⛉ Distraction</font> || 2x damage received from <font color='purple'>Precise attacks</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Severe Pain || Purple || 1/2 purple damage dealt
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|<font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font>|| 1/2 damage dealt with <font color='purple'>Precise attacks</font>
 
|-
 
|-
 
|}
 
|}
  
 
===Special Techniques===
 
===Special Techniques===
Special Techniques are taught by Lanista at the Coliseum, and you can learn up to 4, 1 per level of current Fighter skill. The cost to train increases with each skill learned: $10, $40, $90, $160
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Special Techniques are powerful attacks with special effects that can only be used once each per battle.
Some abilities are always available, while others require a specific weapon type. Learning an ability requires at least 1* of [[Jack-o-nine/Gameplay/Energy|energy]] and will take all day.
 
  
*Roundhouse Kick - Red ability that does triple damage (before modifiers). Always available, but only 1 use per fight.  Does the same type of damage as the equipped main-hand weapon.
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They are taught by Lanista at the Coliseum.<br/>
*Swift Blow - Green Multi-target ability that hits two targets for double damage. Requires a slashing weapon.  One use per fight.
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The total number you can learn depends on your Fighter skill: 1 at Brawler (D-), 2 at Brawler (D-) while wearing an Aketon, 3 at Duelist (C-), and 4 at Combatant (B+) and beyond.
*Battle Cry - Purple ability that deals morale damage while giving yourself a boost. Grants Fury[4]. Always available, but only 1 use per fight.
 
*Heavy Blow - Red ability that causes Stun [99] and deals double damage. Requires a blunt weapon. One use per fight.
 
*Dashing Blow - Green ability that causes Unsteadiness[99]. Requires a slashing weapon.  One use per fight.
 
*Precise hit - Purple ability that does double damage and causes Distraction[99]. Requires a piercing weapon but does not seem to do HP damage.  One use per fight.
 
  
[Glitch note in the standard build 1-2-1:<br />
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The cost to train increases with each skill learned: $10, $40, $90, $160
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Some abilities are always available, while others require a specific weapon type. Learning an ability requires at least 3* of [[Jack-o-nine/Gameplay/Energy|energy]] and will take all day.
  
If you lose a colosseum battle with weapon-type specific special techniques available and unutilised, sometimes the special techniques glitch, and permit you thereafter to use them with inappropriate weapons. When this happens, you can also use them without limit, until you use them with an appropriate weapon.<br />
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{| class="wikitable"
Upon using them with an appropriate weapon, they are once again correctly unusable for the rest of the fight, and the glitch corrects itself for that special technique until the glitch is reactivated.
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|-
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! Special Technique !! Required weapon !! Attack !! Base Damage !! Damage type !! Additional effects
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|-
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| Roundhouse Kick || || <font color='red'>Power attack</font> || 2x weapon damage || same as main-hand weapon ||
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|-
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| Battle Cry || || <font color='purple'>Precise attack</font> || 10 || <font color='purple'>❤</font><br/>Morale || Grants user 20 <font color='purple'>❤ Morale</font> and <font color='red'>🗡 Fury [4]</font>.
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|-
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| Face Bash || Blunt weapon || <font color='red'>Power attack</font> || 2x weapon damage || <font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/>Blunt || Causes <font color='red'>⛓ Weakness [4]</font>
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|-
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| Heavy Blow || Blunt weapon || <font color='red'>Power attack</font> || 2x weapon damage || <font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/>Blunt || Causes <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned [4]</font>
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|-
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| Swift Blow || Slashing weapon || 2 <font color='green'>Speed attacks</font> || 2x weapon damage each || <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/>Slashing || Hits two targets (the currently selected and the next in the list if present)
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|-
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| Dashing Blow || Slashing weapon || <font color='purple'>Precise attack</font><br/>(Incorrectly displayed as <font color='green'>Speed attack</font>) || 2x weapon damage || <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/>Slashing || Causes <font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness [4]</font>
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|-
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| Riposte || Piercing weapon || <font color='purple'>Precise attack</font> || 2x weapon damage || <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/>Piercing || Grants user 5 <font color='red'>❤ Vitality</font> and <font color='green'>⛊ Evasion [4]</font>
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|-
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| Precise hit || Piercing weapon || <font color='purple'>Precise attack</font> || 2x weapon damage || <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/>Piercing || Causes <font color='purple'>⛉ Distraction [4]</font>
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|-
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|}
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===Weapon Types and abilities===
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Weapons must be equipped, and can then be chosen to be wielded at the start of combat.<br />
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At the cost of a turn, the wielded weapons can be changed to any other set of equipped weapons during combat.
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Which weapons are wielded determine the available attacks.<br/>
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The weapon chosen first (main-hand weapon) contributes both of its attacks to the moveset, the second (off-hand) weapon contributes only its first attack.<br />
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Equipping an off-hand weapon identical to the main-hand weapon grants no benefits and wastes the third weapon attack slot.
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In addition to these up to three weapon attacks, the three basic attacks are also available for a maximum of 6 regular attacks to choose from during combat.
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====Damage types====
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Weapon damage comes in four types: Slashing, Piercing, Blunt, and Morale.<br/>
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Which damage type is dealt is defined exclusively by the weapon used.<br/>
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The different attack types (Power, Speed, Piercing) use the same color scheme, but are completely unrelated to damage type.
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Slashing and Piercing damage is dealt to <font color='red'>❤ Vitality</font>, <font color='green'>❤ Stamina</font>, and <font color='purple'>❤ Morale</font>.<br/>
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They are therefore the most useful damage types for defeating enemies, but since <font color='red'>❤ Vitality</font> damage causes wounds and scarring, and can even kill, it should never be used on a rebellious slave.
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Blunt damage is dealt to <font color='green'>❤ Stamina</font> and <font color='purple'>❤ Morale</font>.<br/>
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This is less versatile than Slashing/Piercing, but will never kill an opponent. Keep in mind, though, that <font color='green'>❤ Stamina</font> damage still causes bruising and drains energy, and can therefore severely reduce the Beauty and Endurance of a rebellious slave.
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Morale damage is dealt only to <font color='purple'>❤ Morale</font>.<br/>
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It is therefore the least versatile damage type and least capable of defeating enemies, but it causes no lasting harm to rebellious slaves.
  
(When this glitch occurs, the ability - even if utilised with an inappropriate weapon - still does the kind of damage which would be done by the appropriate weapon.<br />
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Damage types are resisted differently by different types of armor.
So eg a glitched heavy blow used with a machete will not do HP damage. <br />
 
And a glitched dashing blow with a baseball bat will.)  <br />
 
  
For purposes of special techniques, a dagger seems somehow not to be the "appropriate" type for either slashing or stabbing attacks.]
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(Elemental damage also exists in the system, but is unused with the exception of the Dragon Fire Staff Relic which deals Fire damage. Fire damages all 3 health types.)
  
===Weapon Types and abilities===
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====Damage stats====
  
===Unarmed attacks===
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Weapon damage often depends on the stats of the wielder. This is calculated differently for Masters and Slaves, and differently still by slave age.
Unarmed attacks are always available regardless of which weapon you're currently using.
 
  
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
|-
 
|-
! Attack !! Red !! Green !! Purple
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! Stat !! Master !! Slave (Young) !! Slave (Milf) !! Slave (Loli)
 
|-
 
|-
|Kick ||2x || Attention || Stunned
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| Strength || Strength (0 to 5) || Endurance (0 to 5)<br/>+ Gladiatrix affinity (-1 to 1) || Endurance (0 to 5)<br/>+ Gladiatrix affinity (-1 to 1)<br/>+1 || 2/3 * (Endurance + Gladiatrix affinity)<br/>+ Gladiatrix affinity
 
|-
 
|-
|Push || Distraction || 2x || Adrenaline
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| Fighting || Fighting skill (0 to 5) ||colspan=3| Gladiatrix skill (0 to 5)<br/>+ Gladiatrix affinity (-1 to 1)
 
|-
 
|-
|Sweep || Evasion || Unsteadiness || 2x
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| Whip || Flagellation skill (0 to 5) ||colspan=3| Gladiatrix skill (0 to 5)<br/>+ Gladiatrix affinity (-1 to 1)
 
|}
 
|}
  
====Secondary====
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====Basic attacks====
Equippable in any slot except shoulder holster.
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Basic attacks are always available regardless of which weapon you're currently using.
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They deal Strength + 0 Blunt damage.
  
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
|-
 
|-
!Weapon || Attack !! Red !! Green !! Purple
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! Attack !! Type !! vs <font color='red'>Block</font> !! vs <font color='green'>Evade</font> !! vs <font color='purple'>Counter</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Dagger || $10 base damage = str+1
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| Kick || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='purple'>⛊ Attention</font> || <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -||Precise Thrust || Acceleration || Severe Pain  || 2x
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| Push || <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='purple'>⛉ Distraction</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -||Slash || Stiffness || 2x || Precision
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| Sweep || <font color='purple'>Precise</font> || <font color='green'>⛊ Evasion</font> || <font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness</font> || 2x
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|}
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====Unarmed attacks====
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Unarmed "weapons" encompass only the Fist, a special weapon that is equipped by default in the right and left hand if no other weapon is equipped in these slots.
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Unlike basic attacks, the fist has to be equipped and explicitly wielded like any other weapon to be used in combat.
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Unlike other weapon types, a fist in the off-hand contributes no attacks.<br/>
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It can, however, be used as a primary weapon and supplemented with another weapon in the off-hand.
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{| class="wikitable"
 
|-
 
|-
|Stiletto|| $10 base damage = 4
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! Weapon || Price !! Base Damage !! Damage type !! Attack !! Type !! vs <font color='red'>Block</font> !! vs <font color='green'>Evade</font> !! vs <font color='purple'>Counter</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -||Precise Stab || Stiffness|| Acceleration  || 2x
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|rowspan=2| Fist ||rowspan=2| $0 ||rowspan=2| Strength ||rowspan=2| <font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Blunt || Jab || <font color='purple'>Precise</font> || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> || <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font> || 2x
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|-
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| Uppercut || <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='purple'>⛉ Distraction</font> || 2x || <font color='purple'>🗡 Precision</font>
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|-
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|}
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====Secondary====
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Equippable in any slot except shoulder holster.
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{| class="wikitable"
 
|-
 
|-
| -||Rapid Stab|| Severe Pain || 2x || Precision
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! Weapon || Price !! Base Damage !! Damage type !! Attack !! Type !! vs <font color='red'>Block</font> !! vs <font color='green'>Evade</font> !! vs <font color='purple'>Counter</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Brass Knuckles|| $10 base damage = str+1
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|rowspan=2| Dagger ||rowspan=2| $10 ||rowspan=2| Strength + 2 ||rowspan=2| <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Piercing || Precise Thrust || <font color='purple'>Precise</font> || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font> || 2x
 
|-
 
|-
| -||Powerful punch || 2x || Acceleration || Stunned
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| Slash || <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font> || 2x || <font color='purple'>🗡 Precision</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -||Rapid Hit|| Unsteadiness || 2x || Adrenaline
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|rowspan=2| Stiletto||rowspan=2| $10 ||rowspan=2| 4 ||rowspan=2| <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Piercing || Precise Stab || <font color='purple'>Precise</font> || <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font>|| <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> || 2x
 
|-
 
|-
|Lash|| $10 base damage = whip+1 morale
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| Rapid Stab|| <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font> || 2x || <font color='purple'>🗡 Precision</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -||Flog || Severe Pain || 2x|| Acceleration
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|rowspan=2| Brass Knuckles||rowspan=2| $10 ||rowspan=2| Strength + 1 ||rowspan=2| <font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Blunt || Powerful punch || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> || <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -||Smack || Precision || Stiffness || 2x
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| Rapid Hit|| <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Stunner|| $10 base damage = str+1
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|rowspan=2| Lash||rowspan=2| $10 ||rowspan=2| Whip + 1 ||rowspan=2| <font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Morale || Flog || <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font> || 2x|| <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -||Blow to the head || 2x || Adrenaline|| Stunned
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| Smack || <font color='purple'>Precise</font> || <font color='purple'>🗡 Precision</font> || <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font> || 2x
 
|-
 
|-
| -||Poke|| Unsteadiness || 2x || Precision
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|rowspan=2| Stunner||rowspan=2| $10 ||rowspan=2| Strength + 1 ||rowspan=2| <font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Blunt || Blow to the head || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font>|| <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Butcher's Cleaver|| $20 base damage = (str*2)-1
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| Poke|| <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness</font> || 2x || <font color='purple'>🗡 Precision</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -||Butcher's Blow || 2x || Adrenaline|| Distraction
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|rowspan=2| Butcher's Cleaver||rowspan=2| $20 ||rowspan=2| 2 * Strength - 1<br/>minimum 1, capped at 7 ||rowspan=2| <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Slashing || Butcher's Blow || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font>|| <font color='purple'>⛉ Distraction</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -||SlaughterHouse || Severe Pain || 2x || Fury
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| SlaughterHouse || <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>🗡 Fury</font>
 
|-
 
|-
 
|}
 
|}
  
 
====One-Handed====
 
====One-Handed====
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Equippable in left or right hand.
  
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
|-
 
|-
!Weapon || Attack !! Red !! Green !! Purple
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! Weapon || Price !! Base Damage !! Damage type !! Attack !! Type !! vs <font color='red'>Block</font> !! vs <font color='green'>Evade</font> !! vs <font color='purple'>Counter</font>
|-
 
|Whip|| $50 base damage = whip+3 morale
 
|-
 
| -|| Biting Impact || Pain  || 2x  ||  Acceleration
 
|-
 
| -|| Sweeping Strike || 2x || Adrenaline  ||  Stunned
 
|-
 
|Epee ||  $50 base damage = str+2
 
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Deep Thrust || Acceleration || Pain || 2x
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|rowspan=2| Whip||rowspan=2| $50 ||rowspan=2| Whip + 3 ||rowspan=2| <font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Morale || Biting Impact || <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font> || 2x || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Triple Thrust || Distraction  || 2x || Evasion
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| Sweeping Strike || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font> || <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| Rapier || $50 base damage = 5
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|rowspan=2| Epée ||rowspan=2| $50 ||rowspan=2| Strength + 3 ||rowspan=2| <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Piercing || Deep Thrust || <font color='purple'>Precise</font> || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font> || 2x
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Accurate Thrust || Acceleration || Stunned || 2x
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| Triple Thrust || <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='purple'>⛉ Distraction</font> || 2x || <font color='green'>⛊ Evasion</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Fulminant || Distraction || 2x || Precision
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|rowspan=2| Rapier ||rowspan=2| $50 ||rowspan=2| 6 ||rowspan=2| <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Piercing || Accurate Thrust || <font color='purple'>Precise</font> || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> || <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font> || 2x
 
|-
 
|-
|Koncerz || $50 base damage = str+3
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| Fulminant || <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='purple'>⛉ Distraction</font> || 2x || <font color='purple'>🗡 Precision</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Precise Thrust || Fury || Weakness || 2x
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|rowspan=2| Koncerz ||rowspan=2| $50 ||rowspan=2| Strength + 3 ||rowspan=2| <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Piercing || Precise Thrust || <font color='purple'>Precise</font> || <font color='red'>🗡 Fury</font> || <font color='red'>⛓ Weakness</font> || 2x
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Pierce || 2x || Precision || Stiffness
+
| Pierce || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='purple'>🗡 Precision</font> || <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Gladius|| $50 base damage = str+3
+
|rowspan=2| Gladius||rowspan=2| $50 ||rowspan=2| Strength + 3 ||rowspan=2| <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Slashing || Poke || <font color='purple'>Precise</font> || <font color='purple'>⛊ Attention</font> || <font color='red'>⛓ Weakness</font> || 2x
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Poke || Attention || Weakness  || 2x
+
| Swing || <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='purple'>⛉ Distraction</font> || 2x || <font color='green'>⛊ Evasion</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Swing || Distraction || 2x || Evasion
+
|rowspan=2| Bastard Sword ||rowspan=2| $100 ||rowspan=2| Strength + 4 ||rowspan=2| <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Slashing || Slash || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> || <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Bastard Sword || $100 base damage = str+3
+
| Arc hit || <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Slash || 2x || Acceleration  || Stiffness
+
|rowspan=2| Machete ||rowspan=2| $50 ||rowspan=2| Strength + 3 ||rowspan=2| <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Slashing || Snag cut || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font> || <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Arc hit || Unsteadiness || 2x || Adrenaline
+
| Chop || <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='red'>🗡 Fury</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Machete || $50 base damage = str+3
+
|rowspan=2| Katana ||rowspan=2| $100 ||rowspan=2| Strength + 4 ||rowspan=2| <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Slashing || Uchiotoshi || <font color='purple'>Precise</font> || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> || <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font> || 2x
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Snag cut || 2x || Adrenaline || Stunned
+
| Renzoku || <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='purple'>⛉ Distraction</font> || 2x || <font color='purple'>🗡 Precision</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Chop || Fury  || 2x || Unsteadiness
+
|rowspan=2| Baton ||rowspan=2| $25 ||rowspan=2| 2 * Strength - 1<br/>minimum 2, capped at 7 ||rowspan=2| <font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Blunt || Wicked Poke || <font color='purple'>Precise</font> || <font color='purple'>⛊ Attention</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font> || 2x
 
|-
 
|-
|Katana || $100 base damage = str+3
+
| Smash || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font> || <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Uchiotoshi || Acceleration || Stunned || 2x
+
|rowspan=2| Trident ||rowspan=2| $100 ||rowspan=2| Strength + 4 ||rowspan=2| <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Piercing || Precise Thrust || <font color='purple'>Precise</font> || <font color='red'>🗡 Fury</font> || <font color='red'>⛓ Weakness</font> || 2x
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Renzoku || Distraction || 2x || Precision
+
| Harpoon || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='purple'>🗡 Precision</font> || <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Baton || $25 base damage = str+3
+
|rowspan=2| Mace ||rowspan=2| $100 ||rowspan=2| Strength + 4 ||rowspan=2| <font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Blunt || Crush/Break Bone || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Wicked poke || Attention || Pain  || 2x
+
| Knockdown || <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font> || 2x || <font color='green'>⛊ Evasion</font>
|-
 
| -|| Smash || 2x || Adrenaline ||  Stiffness
 
 
|-
 
|-
 
|}
 
|}
  
 
====Two Handed====
 
====Two Handed====
 +
 +
Equippable in shoulder holster. Uses both main-hand and off-hand when wielded.
  
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
|-
 
|-
!Weapon || Attack !! Red !! Green !! Purple
+
! Weapon || Price !! Base Damage !! Damage type !! Attack !! Type !! vs <font color='red'>Block</font> !! vs <font color='green'>Evade</font> !! vs <font color='purple'>Counter</font>
|-
 
|Flamberge|| $200  base damage = str+5
 
|-
 
| -|| Short Blow || Stunned || 2x  ||  Fury
 
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Powerful Blow || 2x || Acceleration || Unsteadiness
+
|rowspan=2| Flamberge||rowspan=2| $200 ||rowspan=2| Strength + 6 ||rowspan=2| <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Slashing || Short Blow || <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>🗡 Fury</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Naginata ||$200  base damage = str+5
+
| Powerful Blow || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> || <font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Direct Hit || Acceleration || Stunned || 2x
+
|rowspan=2| Naginata ||rowspan=2|$200 ||rowspan=2| Strength + 6 ||rowspan=2| <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Piercing || Direct Hit || <font color='purple'>Precise</font> || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> || <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font> || 2x
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Scythe of Death || Weakness || 2x || Evasion  
+
| Scythe of Death || <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='red'>⛓ Weakness</font> || 2x || <font color='green'>⛊ Evasion</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Morning Star || $150  base damage = str+6
+
|rowspan=2| Morning Star ||rowspan=2| $200 ||rowspan=2| Strength + 6 ||rowspan=2| <font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Blunt || Twisted || <font color='purple'>Precise</font> || <font color='red'>🗡 Fury</font> || <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font> || 2x
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Twisted || Fury || Stunned  || 2x
+
| Sweeping || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> || <font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Sweeping || 2x || Acceleration  || Unsteadiness
+
|rowspan=2| Greataxe ||rowspan=2| $150 ||rowspan=2| Strength + 5 ||rowspan=2| <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Slashing || Woodcutter || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|GreatAxe || $100 base damage = str+5
+
| Crescent || <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>🗡 Fury</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Woodcutter || 2x || Adrenaline || Pain
+
|rowspan=2| Baseball Bat||rowspan=2| $100 ||rowspan=2| Strength + 4 ||rowspan=2| <font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Blunt || Knock out || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Crescent || Unsteadiness || 2x || Fury
+
| Sweeping || <font color='green'>Speed</font> || <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font> || 2x || <font color='green'>⛊ Evasion</font>
 
|-
 
|-
|Baseball Bat|| $100 base damage = str+5
+
|rowspan=2| Cattle Prod ||rowspan=2| $150 ||rowspan=2| Strength + 5 ||rowspan=2| <font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Morale || Goad || <font color='purple'>Precise</font> || <font color='purple'>⛊ Attention</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font> || 2x
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Knock out || 2x || Adrenaline || nothing (not Pain)
+
| Cattle prod || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font> || <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Sweeping || Stiffness || 2x  || Evasion
+
|rowspan=2| Dragon Fire Staff Relic ||rowspan=2| N/A ||rowspan=2| 10 to 16<br/>(random) ||rowspan=2| <font color='red'>❤</font><font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Fire || Fireball || <font color='purple'>Precise</font> || <font color='red'>🗡 Fury</font> || <font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness</font> || 2x
 
|-
 
|-
|Cattle prod || $150 base damage = str+5 morale
+
| Flamethrower || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='green'>⛊ Evasion</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font>
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Goad || Attention || Pain || 2x  
+
|rowspan=2| Stool ||rowspan=2| Improvised ||rowspan=2| Strength + 2 ||rowspan=2| <font color='green'>❤</font><font color='purple'>❤</font><br/> Blunt || Leg quartet || <font color='purple'>Precise</font> || <font color='purple'>⛊ Attention</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font> || 2x
 
|-
 
|-
| -|| Cattle prod || 2x || Adrenaline || Stiffness
+
| Smash || <font color='red'>Power</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font> || <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font>
 
|-
 
|-
 
|}
 
|}
  
 
===Armor===
 
===Armor===
 +
 +
Armor is worn on top of clothes.
 +
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
{| class="wikitable"
 
|-
 
|-
!Armor || Price !! Cutting !! Piercing !! Crushing !! Frost !! Fire !! Lightning !! Notes
+
!Armor || Price !! Slashing !! Piercing !! Blunt !! Frost !! Fire !! Lightning !! Notes
 
|-
 
|-
| Aramid Suit || $100 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 1 || Evasion 3
+
| No Armor || $0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || 0 || <font color='green'>⛊ Evasion</font> 5
 +
|-
 +
| Aramid Suit || $100 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 1 || 1 || <font color='green'>⛊ Evasion</font> 3
 
|-
 
|-
 
| Leather Armor || $400 || 2 || 3 || 2 || 3 || 5 || 4 ||
 
| Leather Armor || $400 || 2 || 3 || 2 || 3 || 5 || 4 ||
 
|-
 
|-
| Elven Chainmail || $250 || 4 || 2 || 0 || 2 || 2 || 2 || Evasion 3
+
| Elven Chainmail || $250 || 4 || 2 || 0 || -2 || -2 || -2 || <font color='green'>⛊ Evasion</font> 3
 
|-
 
|-
| Yatserin Mail || $300 || 5 || 4 || 1 || 1 || 2 || 1 || something weird in the code
+
| Yatserin Mail || $300 || 5 || 4 || 1 || -1 || -2 || -1 ||  
 
|-
 
|-
| Combined Armor || $800 || 4 || 4 || 3 || 1 || 1 || 1 || Stiffness 2
+
| Combined Armor || $800 || 4 || 4 || 3 || -1 || -1 || -1 || <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font> 2
 
|-
 
|-
| Gothic Plate || $1000 || 5 || 5 || 5 || 5 || 5 || 5 || Stiffness 5
+
| Gothic Plate || $1000 || 5 || 5 || 5 || -5 || -5 || -5 || <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font> 5
 
|-
 
|-
 +
| Mithril Mail || - || 10 || 10 || 10 || 10 || 10 || 10 || Special reward for post-patrician mission
 
|}
 
|}
  
Only Lich and the Vatican Champion use magical attacks (Corvus Champion's special attack is psychic so no armor helps) therefore only the first three defence modifiers matter.
+
Only the Vatican Champion uses magical attacks (and only fire), therefore only the first three defense modifiers matter.
  
 
==Tips==
 
==Tips==
 
If your Strength is very low, consider which weapon you choose
 
If your Strength is very low, consider which weapon you choose
*If you can afford them, and don't mind a 2-handed weapon, the Greataxe, Morningstar, Naginata, Cattle Prod and Flamberge will do high base damage even with low strength.
+
*If you can afford them, the Mace and Greataxe will do high base damage even with low strength, and the Rapier will do 6 damage regardless of stats.
 
*If your Flagellation skill is much higher than Strength, consider the Whip and/or Lash which do damage based on that skill instead.
 
*If your Flagellation skill is much higher than Strength, consider the Whip and/or Lash which do damage based on that skill instead.
*If all else fails, consider starting with the Rapier, which is cheap ($50) and does a base 5 damage regardless of stats, or the Stiletto ($10, 4 damage).
+
*If every spark counts, go for the Dagger or Butcher's Cleaver, which do respectable damage even though they're cheap.
 
*You can raise Strength through Sparring in the Colosseum or [[Jack-o-nine/Gameplay/Slaver#Strength|through other daily activities]]
 
*You can raise Strength through Sparring in the Colosseum or [[Jack-o-nine/Gameplay/Slaver#Strength|through other daily activities]]
 
** It took about 3 sparrings vs Unarmed slave to raise Strength from Weak to Unfit, 10 sparrings vs Wardress to go from Unfit to Strong
 
** It took about 3 sparrings vs Unarmed slave to raise Strength from Weak to Unfit, 10 sparrings vs Wardress to go from Unfit to Strong
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*Hit them with Roundhouse Kick for 200 damage.
 
*Hit them with Roundhouse Kick for 200 damage.
 
*Wipe the blood off your clothes.
 
*Wipe the blood off your clothes.
 +
 +
 +
==Jack Original==
 +
 +
Glitch Notes:<br/>
 +
'''1'''.  There seems to be something extremely strange in the armour code or somesuch thing: if you wear, for example, Gothic Plate for a few fights, it seems that the armour bonus becomes innate to you, so even if you take the armour off you still take less damage. And if you keep the armour on, you continue to take less and less damage over time. Something about the Slaver's defence values is extremely unclear. (Tested in Sandbox mode.)
 +
<br/>
 +
 +
'''2'''.    If you lose a colosseum battle with weapon-type specific special techniques available and unutilised, sometimes the special techniques glitch, and permit you thereafter to use them with inappropriate weapons. When this happens, you can also use them without limit, until you use them with an appropriate weapon.
 +
Upon using them with an appropriate weapon, they are once again correctly unusable for the rest of the fight, and the glitch corrects itself for that special technique until the glitch is reactivated.
 +
 +
(When this glitch occurs, the ability - even if utilised with an inappropriate weapon - still does the kind of damage which would be done by the appropriate weapon.
 +
So eg a glitched heavy blow used with a machete will not do HP damage.
 +
And a glitched dashing blow with a baseball bat will.) <br/>
 +
For purposes of special techniques, a dagger seems somehow not to be the "appropriate" type for either slashing or stabbing attacks.
 +
 +
'''3'''.  Note:<br />
 +
1) The in-game description of blocks is incorrect: speed attacks debuff the defender as noted above, as opposed to buffing the attacker as the in-game description suggests.<br/>
 +
 +
2) The Baseball bat's "knock out" red regular attack has no effect on purple defences: as an inexplicable anomaly, this must be an oversight.
 +
 +
 +
'''SPECIAL TECHNIQUES'''
 +
 +
Special Techniques are taught by Lanista at the Coliseum, and you can learn up to 5, 1 per level of current Fighter skill (so 5 at "Master Swordsman" fighting proficiency). The cost to train increases with each skill learned: $10, $40, $90, $160 and $250.  Some abilities are available regardless of weapon type, while others require a specific weapon type. Learning an ability requires at least 1* of energy and will take all day.
 +
 +
 +
====Secondary====
 +
Equippable in any slot except Shoulder Holster.
 +
 +
{| class="wikitable"
 +
|-
 +
!Weapon || Attack !! vs<font color='Red'> Block </font> !! vs <font color='Green'>Evade</font> !! vs <font color='Purple'>  Counterattack </font>
 +
|-
 +
|Dagger || $10<br/> Slashing/Piercing<br/> base damage = str+1
 +
|-
 +
| -||<font color='Purple'>Precise Thrust</font> || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font>  || 2x
 +
|-
 +
| -||<font color='Green'>Slash</font> || <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font> || 2x || <font color='purple'>🗡 Precision</font>
 +
|-
 +
|Stiletto|| $10<br/> Piercing<br/> base damage = 4
 +
|-
 +
| -||<font color='purple'>Precise Stab</font> || <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font>|| <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font>  || 2x
 +
|-
 +
| -||<font color='Green'>Rapid Stab</font>|| <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font> || 2x || <font color='purple'>🗡 Precision</font>
 +
|-
 +
|Brass Knuckles|| $10<br/> Blunt<br/> base damage = str+1
 +
|-
 +
| -||<font color='Red'>Powerful punch</font> || 2x || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font>|| <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font>
 +
|-
 +
| -||<font color='Green'>Rapid Hit</font>|| <font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font>
 +
|-
 +
|Lash|| $10<br/> Morale<br/> base damage = whip+1
 +
|-
 +
| -||<font color='Green'>Flog</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font> || 2x|| <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font>
 +
|-
 +
| -||<font color='Purple'>Smack</font> ||<font color='purple'>🗡 Precision</font> || <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font> || 2x
 +
|-
 +
|Stunner|| $10<br/> Blunt <br/> base damage = str+1
 +
|-
 +
| -||<font color='Red'>Blow to the head</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font>|| <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font>
 +
|-
 +
| -||<font color='Green'>Poke</font>|| <font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness</font> || 2x || <font color='purple'>🗡 Precision</font>
 +
|-
 +
|Butcher's Cleaver|| $20 <br/> Slashing<br/> base damage = (str*2)-1
 +
|-
 +
| -||<font color='Red'>Butcher's Blow</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font>|| <font color='purple'>⛉ Distraction</font>
 +
|-
 +
| -||<font color='Green'>SlaughterHouse</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>🗡 Fury</font>
 +
|-
 +
|}
 +
 +
====One-Handed====
 +
Equippable in any slot except Sleeve or Boot holster.
 +
 +
{| class="wikitable"
 +
|-
 +
!Weapon || Attack !! vs<font color='Red'> Block </font> !! vs <font color='Green'>Evade</font> !! vs <font color='Purple'>  Counterattack </font>
 +
|-
 +
|Whip|| $50<br/> Morale <br/> base damage = whip+3
 +
|-
 +
| -|| <font color='Green'>Biting Impact</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font>  || 2x  ||  <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font>
 +
|-
 +
| -|| <font color='Red'>Sweeping Strike</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font>  ||  <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font>
 +
|-
 +
|Epee ||  $50<br/> Piercing <br/> base damage = str+2
 +
|-
 +
| -|| <font color='Purple'>Deep Thrust</font> || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font> ||  2x
 +
|-
 +
| -|| <font color='Green'>Triple Thrust</font> || <font color='purple'>⛉ Distraction</font>  || 2x ||  <font color='green'>⛊ Evasion</font>
 +
|-
 +
| Rapier ||  $50<br/> Piercing <br/> base damage = 5
 +
|-
 +
| -|| <font color='Purple'>Accurate Thrust</font> || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> || <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font> ||  2x
 +
|-
 +
| -|| <font color='Green'>Fulminant</font> || <font color='purple'>⛉ Distraction</font> || 2x ||  <font color='purple'>🗡 Precision</font>
 +
|-
 +
|Koncerz || $50<br/> Piercing <br/> base damage = str+3
 +
|-
 +
| -|| <font color='Purple'>Precise Thrust</font> || <font color='red'>🗡 Fury</font> || <font color='red'>⛓ Weakness</font>  ||  2x
 +
|-
 +
| -|| <font color='Red'>Pierce</font> || 2x || <font color='purple'>🗡 Precision</font> ||  <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font>
 +
|-
 +
|Gladius|| $50<br/> Slashing/Piercing <br/> base damage = str+3
 +
|-
 +
| -|| <font color='Purple'>Poke</font> || <font color='purple'>⛊ Attention</font> || <font color='red'>⛓ Weakness</font>  ||  2x
 +
|-
 +
| -|| <font color='Green'>Swing</font> || <font color='purple'>⛉ Distraction</font> || 2x ||  <font color='green'>⛊ Evasion</font>
 +
|-
 +
|Bastard Sword || $100<br/> Slashing <br/> base damage = str+3
 +
|-
 +
| -|| <font color='Red'>Slash</font> || 2x || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font>  ||  <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font>
 +
|-
 +
| -|| <font color='Green'>Arc hit </font> || <font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness</font> || 2x ||  <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font>
 +
|-
 +
|Machete ||  $50<br/> Slashing <br/> base damage = str+3
 +
|-
 +
| -|| <font color='Red'>Snag cut</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font> ||  <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font>
 +
|-
 +
| -|| <font color='Green'>Chop</font> || <font color='red'>🗡 Fury</font>  || 2x ||  <font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness</font>
 +
|-
 +
|Katana ||  $100<br/> Slashing <br/> base damage = str+3
 +
|-
 +
| -|| <font color='Purple'>Uchiotoshi</font> || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> || <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font> ||  2x
 +
|-
 +
| -|| <font color='Green'>Renzoku</font> || <font color='purple'>⛉ Distraction</font> || 2x ||  <font color='purple'>🗡 Precision</font>
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|-
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|Baton || $25<br/> Blunt <br/> base damage = str+3
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|-
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| -|| <font color='Purple'>Wicked poke</font> || <font color='purple'>⛊ Attention</font> || <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font>  ||  2x
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|-
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| -|| <font color='Red'>Smash</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font> ||  <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font>
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|-
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|}
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====Two Handed====
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Only Equippable in Shoulder Holster.
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{| class="wikitable"
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|-
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!Weapon || Attack !! vs<font color='Red'> Block </font> !! vs <font color='Green'>Evade</font> !! vs <font color='Purple'>  Counterattack </font>
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|-
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|Flamberge|| $200<br/> Slashing <br/>  base damage = str+5
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|-
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| -|| <font color='Green'>Short Blow</font> || <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font> || 2x  ||  <font color='red'>🗡 Fury</font>
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|-
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| -|| <font color='Red'>Powerful Blow</font> || 2x || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> ||  <font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness</font>
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|-
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|Naginata ||$200<br/> Slashing/Piercing<br/>  base damage = str+5
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|-
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| -|| <font color='Purple'>Direct Hit</font> || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font> || <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font>  ||  2x
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|-
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| -|| <font color='Green'>Scythe of Death</font> || <font color='red'>⛓ Weakness</font>  || 2x  || <font color='green'>⛊ Evasion</font>
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|-
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|Morning Star || $150<br/> Blunt<br/>  base damage = str+6
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|-
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| -|| <font color='Purple'>Twisted</font> || <font color='red'>🗡 Fury</font> || <font color='green'>⛉ Stunned</font>  ||  2x
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|-
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| -|| <font color='Red'>Sweeping</font> || 2x || <font color='green'>🗡 Acceleration</font>  || <font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness</font>
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|-
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|GreatAxe || $100<br/> Slashing <br/> base damage = str+5
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|-
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| -|| <font color='Red'>Woodcutter</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font>  ||  <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font>
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|-
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| -|| <font color='Green'>Crescent</font> || <font color='red'>⛉ Unsteadiness</font> || 2x  ||  <font color='red'>🗡 Fury</font>
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|-
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|Baseball Bat|| $100 <br/> Blunt <br/> base damage = str+5
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|-
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| -|| <font color='Red'>Knock out</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font>  ||  nothing (NOT <font color='purple'>⛓ Severe Pain</font>)
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|-
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| -|| <font color='Green'>Sweeping</font> || <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font> || 2x  ||  <font color='green'>⛊ Evasion</font>
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|-
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|Cattle prod || $150<br/> Morale <br/> base damage = str+5
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|-
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| -|| <font color='Purple'>Goad</font> || <font color='purple'>⛊ Attention</font> || Severe Pain  || 2x
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|-
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| -|| <font color='Red'>Cattle prod</font> || 2x || <font color='red'>⛊ Adrenaline</font>  ||  <font color='green'>⛓ Stiffness</font>
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|-
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|}

Latest revision as of 23:27, 24 January 2024

OldHuntsman

all characters are at least 18


Jack-o-nine [edit]

Story

Locations

Gameplay

Modding


Helpful post from user Drix at ULMF forums: [1]

" The great secret to combat is in alignment(or multipliers). Every attack can either cause a buff or debuff or deal double damage for attack of the same color. So what you want is to align an attack to cause the biggest damage of the same color. A simple example is while you have furry(2x red) while the enemy is unbalanced(2x red) and the enemy is blocking(2x red) if you strike it with a roundhouse special skill(lots of damage) he is toast. You can kill pretty high level monsters with this.

To defend yourself want to use halve damage buffs and debuffs. Slow and steady is also good for more manageable opponents. You generally only want to strike with same attack color as their defense only when you have so power backing you(multipliers). For defense I usually leave it green since you get a buff at the start of combat with this character(from fetish or vigor?) "

Combat Basics

Both the slaver and their enemy have 3 colored hearts that dictate their status. When any of them reach 0 or less the fight is over. Going into a fight with 1 energy

  • Red heart for health - person dies. Starting value based on Strength.
  • Green for stamina - person collapses and is unable to continue fighting. Starting value based on Energy. Damage may reduce Energy.
  • Purple for morale - person flees combat. Starting value based on Personality. Damage may reduce Mood.

Different weapons and attacks have different effects on the hearts, for example a whip doesn't do much physical damage (red heart), but causes a lot of pain so decreases morale (purple heart).

In general, unarmed attacks and blunt weapon attacks don't do HP damage and so cannot kill an opponent in this game, while slashing and piercing damage do hp damage and therefore can kill your opponents.
("Roundhouse Kick" is not necessarily an unarmed attack despite the name; it does whatever type of damage is dealt by the main-hand equipped weapon at the time it is used - so if main-hand weapons are removed to reveal the jab and uppercut attacks, "Roundhouse Kick" deals nonlethal damage like any other unarmed attack.)

In border of the fogs, enemies (especially minion-types) might die regardless of which heart is reduced to zero.

If a weapon-type damages certain heart-gauges at all, it affects all damaged heart-gauges to the same degree.

The fact that attacks and defences have colours which correspond EXACTLY to the colours of the heart-gauges is irrelevant and potentially misleading. Red attacks do not do damage to the hp gauge especially or necessarily, while blocking (a red defence) does not either protect or expose the hp gauge particularly.
For example, whips ONLY do Morale damage, and yet they ONLY have red and green attacks.


Armour works by applying a flat minus after all other modifiers have already been applied, though attacks always deal at least 1 damage.
So if for example the damage-type dealt is slashing, and the armour has 5 resistance against slashing, you will take 5 less damage than you would otherwise take. Attacks that would have dealt 6 damage deal 1, and attacks (eg doubled by defence-type or buffs) that would have dealt 12 damage deal 7, etc, but attacks that would have dealt 1 damage still deal 1.

One special trait of minion-types is that they are the only enemy-type that you can miss: you have to apply modifiers so that you would be doing at least double damage to the minion in order to hit.

Note:

There seems to be something extremely strange in the armour code or somesuch thing: if you wear, for example, Gothic Plate for a few fights, it seems that the armour bonus becomes innate to you, so even if you take the armour off you still take less damage. And if you keep the armour on, you continue to take less and less damage over time. Something about the Slaver's defence values is extremely unclear. (Tested in Sandbox mode.)

Offense and Defense

Underneath the portrait of both combatants is the type of defense and a list of any buffs/debuffs that character has. If you attack (or get attacked) by a type with the same color the attacker gets a 2x damage multiplier in addition to any multipliers gain from status effects. You can cycle your own defensive type by clicking the arrow next to it and take advantage of any defensive buffs you might currently have or to avoid offensive buffs on your enemy.


You also have the option to defend to remove all harmful status effects and restore some stamina.


When it comes to attacks and defence-styles, red stands for heavy attacks, green stands for swift attacks, and purple stands for precise attacks, while the colour of a defence-style shows the attack-type against which it is WEAKEST in terms of pure damage.


When a regular attack-type (as opposed to a special technique) encounters a defence-style, the wheel of effects is as follows:
Block (Red Defence): Purple attacks buff attackers, green attacks debuff defenders, and red attacks doubly damage defenders.
Evade (Green Defence): Red attacks buff attackers, purple attacks debuff defenders, and green attacks doubly damage defenders.
Counterattack (Purple Defence): Green attacks buff attackers, red attacks debuff defenders, and purple attacks doubly damage defenders.

As can be seen and used as a mnemonic by looking at the colours of your 3 always-available unarmed attacks: the attack which is one step above the defence colour will buff, the attack which is two steps above will debuff.


Note:
1) The in-game description of blocks is incorrect: speed attacks debuff the defender as noted above, as opposed to buffing the attacker as the in-game description suggests.

2) The Baseball bat's "knock out" red regular attack has no effect on purple defences: as an inexplicable anomaly, this must be an oversight.

Injuries

The slaver's condition going into and coming out of a fight will carry over. If you go in with lots of energy, you'll have a higher green heart. If you're not trained for combat and have poor health, or have been previously injured, you'll have a low red heart. Coming out of a fight with low health (red heart) will leave you injured and hamper both your mood and energy recovery until it's healed.

Injuries will heal naturally over time, but you can speed up the process by going to the Medical Center and paying sparks relative to the degree of injury, or consuming healing balms made through alchemy, which will heal the injury by one rank per application. The best option, however, is to use a healing balm in combat right before finishing off your opponent.


On a similar note, when the Slaver fights rebellious slaves, injuries can result depending on the kinds of weapons used.
Bruises and "traces of beatings" which severely decrease beauty can result to a slave, and stamina damage to a slave translates to much less energy being available post-beating to that slave.

Whips and other morale-damage-only weapons are therefore potentially the best types to use in slave-fights if one has skill with them, because
(1) they do not leave bruises or traces of beatings, unlike other types of weapons, and because
(2)they do not decrease the energy of the defeated slave, unlike weapons which do stamina damage.

Naturally, unless the slaver happens to be of a particularly sadistic bent, this is the quintessential time to avoid using slashing, piercing, or other fatal-damage type weapons, because a mis-step with any fatal-damage type weapon can easily result in the slaver killing his slave.

Buffs and Debuffs

Every regular attack has 3 possible outcomes depending on the defensive style of your opponent.

If the color of the attack (Power, Speed Precise) matches the color of the defense (Block, Evade Counter), double damage is dealt.
If it deviates, the attacker receives a buff or the defender a debuff.

vs Block Evade Counter
Power 2x damage Buff attacker Debuff defender
Speed Debuff defender 2x damage Buff attacker
Precise Buff attacker Debuff defender 2x damage

A buff will either double damage dealt with a style of attack, or halve damage received from that style.
A debuff will either half damage dealth with a style of attack, or double damage received from that style.

Whether the applied buff or debuff is the offensive or defensive variant depends on weapon or special skill used (see weapon stats below).

Buffs

Name Effect
⛊ Adrenaline 1/2 damage received from Power attacks
🗡 Fury 2x damage dealt with Power attacks
⛊ Evasion 1/2 damage received from Speed attacks
🗡 Acceleration 2x damage dealt with Speed attacks
⛊ Attention 1/2 damage received from Precise attacks
🗡 Precision 2x damage dealt with Precise attacks

Debuffs

Name Effect
⛉ Unsteadiness 2x damage received from Power attacks
⛓ Weakness 1/2 damage dealt with Power attacks
⛉ Stunned 2x damage received from Speed attacks
⛓ Stiffness 1/2 damage dealt with Speed attacks
⛉ Distraction 2x damage received from Precise attacks
⛓ Severe Pain 1/2 damage dealt with Precise attacks

Special Techniques

Special Techniques are powerful attacks with special effects that can only be used once each per battle.

They are taught by Lanista at the Coliseum.
The total number you can learn depends on your Fighter skill: 1 at Brawler (D-), 2 at Brawler (D-) while wearing an Aketon, 3 at Duelist (C-), and 4 at Combatant (B+) and beyond.

The cost to train increases with each skill learned: $10, $40, $90, $160 Some abilities are always available, while others require a specific weapon type. Learning an ability requires at least 3* of energy and will take all day.

Special Technique Required weapon Attack Base Damage Damage type Additional effects
Roundhouse Kick Power attack 2x weapon damage same as main-hand weapon
Battle Cry Precise attack 10
Morale
Grants user 20 ❤ Morale and 🗡 Fury [4].
Face Bash Blunt weapon Power attack 2x weapon damage
Blunt
Causes ⛓ Weakness [4]
Heavy Blow Blunt weapon Power attack 2x weapon damage
Blunt
Causes ⛉ Stunned [4]
Swift Blow Slashing weapon 2 Speed attacks 2x weapon damage each
Slashing
Hits two targets (the currently selected and the next in the list if present)
Dashing Blow Slashing weapon Precise attack
(Incorrectly displayed as Speed attack)
2x weapon damage
Slashing
Causes ⛉ Unsteadiness [4]
Riposte Piercing weapon Precise attack 2x weapon damage
Piercing
Grants user 5 ❤ Vitality and ⛊ Evasion [4]
Precise hit Piercing weapon Precise attack 2x weapon damage
Piercing
Causes ⛉ Distraction [4]

Weapon Types and abilities

Weapons must be equipped, and can then be chosen to be wielded at the start of combat.
At the cost of a turn, the wielded weapons can be changed to any other set of equipped weapons during combat.

Which weapons are wielded determine the available attacks.
The weapon chosen first (main-hand weapon) contributes both of its attacks to the moveset, the second (off-hand) weapon contributes only its first attack.
Equipping an off-hand weapon identical to the main-hand weapon grants no benefits and wastes the third weapon attack slot.

In addition to these up to three weapon attacks, the three basic attacks are also available for a maximum of 6 regular attacks to choose from during combat.

Damage types

Weapon damage comes in four types: Slashing, Piercing, Blunt, and Morale.

Which damage type is dealt is defined exclusively by the weapon used.
The different attack types (Power, Speed, Piercing) use the same color scheme, but are completely unrelated to damage type.

Slashing and Piercing damage is dealt to ❤ Vitality, ❤ Stamina, and ❤ Morale.
They are therefore the most useful damage types for defeating enemies, but since ❤ Vitality damage causes wounds and scarring, and can even kill, it should never be used on a rebellious slave.

Blunt damage is dealt to ❤ Stamina and ❤ Morale.
This is less versatile than Slashing/Piercing, but will never kill an opponent. Keep in mind, though, that ❤ Stamina damage still causes bruising and drains energy, and can therefore severely reduce the Beauty and Endurance of a rebellious slave.

Morale damage is dealt only to ❤ Morale.
It is therefore the least versatile damage type and least capable of defeating enemies, but it causes no lasting harm to rebellious slaves.

Damage types are resisted differently by different types of armor.

(Elemental damage also exists in the system, but is unused with the exception of the Dragon Fire Staff Relic which deals Fire damage. Fire damages all 3 health types.)

Damage stats

Weapon damage often depends on the stats of the wielder. This is calculated differently for Masters and Slaves, and differently still by slave age.

Stat Master Slave (Young) Slave (Milf) Slave (Loli)
Strength Strength (0 to 5) Endurance (0 to 5)
+ Gladiatrix affinity (-1 to 1)
Endurance (0 to 5)
+ Gladiatrix affinity (-1 to 1)
+1
2/3 * (Endurance + Gladiatrix affinity)
+ Gladiatrix affinity
Fighting Fighting skill (0 to 5) Gladiatrix skill (0 to 5)
+ Gladiatrix affinity (-1 to 1)
Whip Flagellation skill (0 to 5) Gladiatrix skill (0 to 5)
+ Gladiatrix affinity (-1 to 1)

Basic attacks

Basic attacks are always available regardless of which weapon you're currently using.

They deal Strength + 0 Blunt damage.

Attack Type vs Block vs Evade vs Counter
Kick Power 2x ⛊ Attention ⛉ Stunned
Push Speed ⛉ Distraction 2x ⛊ Adrenaline
Sweep Precise ⛊ Evasion ⛉ Unsteadiness 2x

Unarmed attacks

Unarmed "weapons" encompass only the Fist, a special weapon that is equipped by default in the right and left hand if no other weapon is equipped in these slots.

Unlike basic attacks, the fist has to be equipped and explicitly wielded like any other weapon to be used in combat.

Unlike other weapon types, a fist in the off-hand contributes no attacks.
It can, however, be used as a primary weapon and supplemented with another weapon in the off-hand.

Weapon Price Base Damage Damage type Attack Type vs Block vs Evade vs Counter
Fist $0 Strength
Blunt
Jab Precise 🗡 Acceleration ⛉ Stunned 2x
Uppercut Speed ⛉ Distraction 2x 🗡 Precision

Secondary

Equippable in any slot except shoulder holster.

Weapon Price Base Damage Damage type Attack Type vs Block vs Evade vs Counter
Dagger $10 Strength + 2
Piercing
Precise Thrust Precise 🗡 Acceleration ⛓ Severe Pain 2x
Slash Speed ⛓ Stiffness 2x 🗡 Precision
Stiletto $10 4
Piercing
Precise Stab Precise ⛓ Stiffness 🗡 Acceleration 2x
Rapid Stab Speed ⛓ Severe Pain 2x 🗡 Precision
Brass Knuckles $10 Strength + 1
Blunt
Powerful punch Power 2x 🗡 Acceleration ⛉ Stunned
Rapid Hit Speed ⛉ Unsteadiness 2x ⛊ Adrenaline
Lash $10 Whip + 1
Morale
Flog Speed ⛓ Severe Pain 2x 🗡 Acceleration
Smack Precise 🗡 Precision ⛓ Stiffness 2x
Stunner $10 Strength + 1
Blunt
Blow to the head Power 2x ⛊ Adrenaline ⛉ Stunned
Poke Speed ⛉ Unsteadiness 2x 🗡 Precision
Butcher's Cleaver $20 2 * Strength - 1
minimum 1, capped at 7

Slashing
Butcher's Blow Power 2x ⛊ Adrenaline ⛉ Distraction
SlaughterHouse Speed ⛓ Severe Pain 2x 🗡 Fury

One-Handed

Equippable in left or right hand.

Weapon Price Base Damage Damage type Attack Type vs Block vs Evade vs Counter
Whip $50 Whip + 3
Morale
Biting Impact Speed ⛓ Severe Pain 2x 🗡 Acceleration
Sweeping Strike Power 2x ⛊ Adrenaline ⛉ Stunned
Epée $50 Strength + 3
Piercing
Deep Thrust Precise 🗡 Acceleration ⛓ Severe Pain 2x
Triple Thrust Speed ⛉ Distraction 2x ⛊ Evasion
Rapier $50 6
Piercing
Accurate Thrust Precise 🗡 Acceleration ⛉ Stunned 2x
Fulminant Speed ⛉ Distraction 2x 🗡 Precision
Koncerz $50 Strength + 3
Piercing
Precise Thrust Precise 🗡 Fury ⛓ Weakness 2x
Pierce Power 2x 🗡 Precision ⛓ Stiffness
Gladius $50 Strength + 3
Slashing
Poke Precise ⛊ Attention ⛓ Weakness 2x
Swing Speed ⛉ Distraction 2x ⛊ Evasion
Bastard Sword $100 Strength + 4
Slashing
Slash Power 2x 🗡 Acceleration ⛓ Stiffness
Arc hit Speed ⛉ Unsteadiness 2x ⛊ Adrenaline
Machete $50 Strength + 3
Slashing
Snag cut Power 2x ⛊ Adrenaline ⛉ Stunned
Chop Speed 🗡 Fury 2x ⛉ Unsteadiness
Katana $100 Strength + 4
Slashing
Uchiotoshi Precise 🗡 Acceleration ⛉ Stunned 2x
Renzoku Speed ⛉ Distraction 2x 🗡 Precision
Baton $25 2 * Strength - 1
minimum 2, capped at 7

Blunt
Wicked Poke Precise ⛊ Attention ⛓ Severe Pain 2x
Smash Power 2x ⛊ Adrenaline ⛓ Stiffness
Trident $100 Strength + 4
Piercing
Precise Thrust Precise 🗡 Fury ⛓ Weakness 2x
Harpoon Power 2x 🗡 Precision ⛓ Stiffness
Mace $100 Strength + 4
Blunt
Crush/Break Bone Power 2x ⛊ Adrenaline ⛓ Severe Pain
Knockdown Speed ⛓ Stiffness 2x ⛊ Evasion

Two Handed

Equippable in shoulder holster. Uses both main-hand and off-hand when wielded.

Weapon Price Base Damage Damage type Attack Type vs Block vs Evade vs Counter
Flamberge $200 Strength + 6
Slashing
Short Blow Speed ⛉ Stunned 2x 🗡 Fury
Powerful Blow Power 2x 🗡 Acceleration ⛉ Unsteadiness
Naginata $200 Strength + 6
Piercing
Direct Hit Precise 🗡 Acceleration ⛉ Stunned 2x
Scythe of Death Speed ⛓ Weakness 2x ⛊ Evasion
Morning Star $200 Strength + 6
Blunt
Twisted Precise 🗡 Fury ⛉ Stunned 2x
Sweeping Power 2x 🗡 Acceleration ⛉ Unsteadiness
Greataxe $150 Strength + 5
Slashing
Woodcutter Power 2x ⛊ Adrenaline ⛓ Severe Pain
Crescent Speed ⛉ Unsteadiness 2x 🗡 Fury
Baseball Bat $100 Strength + 4
Blunt
Knock out Power 2x ⛊ Adrenaline ⛓ Severe Pain
Sweeping Speed ⛓ Stiffness 2x ⛊ Evasion
Cattle Prod $150 Strength + 5
Morale
Goad Precise ⛊ Attention ⛓ Severe Pain 2x
Cattle prod Power 2x ⛊ Adrenaline ⛓ Stiffness
Dragon Fire Staff Relic N/A 10 to 16
(random)

Fire
Fireball Precise 🗡 Fury ⛉ Unsteadiness 2x
Flamethrower Power 2x ⛊ Evasion ⛓ Severe Pain
Stool Improvised Strength + 2
Blunt
Leg quartet Precise ⛊ Attention ⛓ Severe Pain 2x
Smash Power 2x ⛊ Adrenaline ⛓ Stiffness

Armor

Armor is worn on top of clothes.

Armor Price Slashing Piercing Blunt Frost Fire Lightning Notes
No Armor $0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ⛊ Evasion 5
Aramid Suit $100 1 1 1 1 1 1 ⛊ Evasion 3
Leather Armor $400 2 3 2 3 5 4
Elven Chainmail $250 4 2 0 -2 -2 -2 ⛊ Evasion 3
Yatserin Mail $300 5 4 1 -1 -2 -1
Combined Armor $800 4 4 3 -1 -1 -1 ⛓ Stiffness 2
Gothic Plate $1000 5 5 5 -5 -5 -5 ⛓ Stiffness 5
Mithril Mail - 10 10 10 10 10 10 Special reward for post-patrician mission

Only the Vatican Champion uses magical attacks (and only fire), therefore only the first three defense modifiers matter.

Tips

If your Strength is very low, consider which weapon you choose

  • If you can afford them, the Mace and Greataxe will do high base damage even with low strength, and the Rapier will do 6 damage regardless of stats.
  • If your Flagellation skill is much higher than Strength, consider the Whip and/or Lash which do damage based on that skill instead.
  • If every spark counts, go for the Dagger or Butcher's Cleaver, which do respectable damage even though they're cheap.
  • You can raise Strength through Sparring in the Colosseum or through other daily activities
    • It took about 3 sparrings vs Unarmed slave to raise Strength from Weak to Unfit, 10 sparrings vs Wardress to go from Unfit to Strong
  • Buy an Aketon ASAP and make sure to equip it before combat, it's only $10.
  • If you start without armor, you can have Isabella unequip her Leather Armor and wear it for at least a little protection at start.

Devastating Combo (single target)

  • Equip a Flamberge.
  • Hit the enemy with a Dashing strike for Unsteadiness[99] (2x red damage)
  • Use Battle Cry to gain Fury (also 2x red damage)
  • Attack with Short Blow until they defend by Blocking (Red defence, thus 2x red damage)
  • Hit them with Roundhouse Kick for 200 damage.
  • Wipe the blood off your clothes.


Jack Original

Glitch Notes:
1. There seems to be something extremely strange in the armour code or somesuch thing: if you wear, for example, Gothic Plate for a few fights, it seems that the armour bonus becomes innate to you, so even if you take the armour off you still take less damage. And if you keep the armour on, you continue to take less and less damage over time. Something about the Slaver's defence values is extremely unclear. (Tested in Sandbox mode.)

2. If you lose a colosseum battle with weapon-type specific special techniques available and unutilised, sometimes the special techniques glitch, and permit you thereafter to use them with inappropriate weapons. When this happens, you can also use them without limit, until you use them with an appropriate weapon. Upon using them with an appropriate weapon, they are once again correctly unusable for the rest of the fight, and the glitch corrects itself for that special technique until the glitch is reactivated.

(When this glitch occurs, the ability - even if utilised with an inappropriate weapon - still does the kind of damage which would be done by the appropriate weapon. So eg a glitched heavy blow used with a machete will not do HP damage. And a glitched dashing blow with a baseball bat will.)
For purposes of special techniques, a dagger seems somehow not to be the "appropriate" type for either slashing or stabbing attacks.

3. Note:
1) The in-game description of blocks is incorrect: speed attacks debuff the defender as noted above, as opposed to buffing the attacker as the in-game description suggests.

2) The Baseball bat's "knock out" red regular attack has no effect on purple defences: as an inexplicable anomaly, this must be an oversight.


SPECIAL TECHNIQUES

Special Techniques are taught by Lanista at the Coliseum, and you can learn up to 5, 1 per level of current Fighter skill (so 5 at "Master Swordsman" fighting proficiency). The cost to train increases with each skill learned: $10, $40, $90, $160 and $250. Some abilities are available regardless of weapon type, while others require a specific weapon type. Learning an ability requires at least 1* of energy and will take all day.


Secondary

Equippable in any slot except Shoulder Holster.

Weapon Attack vs Block vs Evade vs Counterattack
Dagger $10
Slashing/Piercing
base damage = str+1
- Precise Thrust 🗡 Acceleration ⛓ Severe Pain 2x
- Slash ⛓ Stiffness 2x 🗡 Precision
Stiletto $10
Piercing
base damage = 4
- Precise Stab ⛓ Stiffness 🗡 Acceleration 2x
- Rapid Stab ⛓ Severe Pain 2x 🗡 Precision
Brass Knuckles $10
Blunt
base damage = str+1
- Powerful punch 2x 🗡 Acceleration ⛉ Stunned
- Rapid Hit ⛉ Unsteadiness 2x ⛊ Adrenaline
Lash $10
Morale
base damage = whip+1
- Flog ⛓ Severe Pain 2x 🗡 Acceleration
- Smack 🗡 Precision ⛓ Stiffness 2x
Stunner $10
Blunt
base damage = str+1
- Blow to the head 2x ⛊ Adrenaline ⛉ Stunned
- Poke ⛉ Unsteadiness 2x 🗡 Precision
Butcher's Cleaver $20
Slashing
base damage = (str*2)-1
- Butcher's Blow 2x ⛊ Adrenaline ⛉ Distraction
- SlaughterHouse ⛓ Severe Pain 2x 🗡 Fury

One-Handed

Equippable in any slot except Sleeve or Boot holster.

Weapon Attack vs Block vs Evade vs Counterattack
Whip $50
Morale
base damage = whip+3
- Biting Impact ⛓ Severe Pain 2x 🗡 Acceleration
- Sweeping Strike 2x ⛊ Adrenaline ⛉ Stunned
Epee $50
Piercing
base damage = str+2
- Deep Thrust 🗡 Acceleration ⛓ Severe Pain 2x
- Triple Thrust ⛉ Distraction 2x ⛊ Evasion
Rapier $50
Piercing
base damage = 5
- Accurate Thrust 🗡 Acceleration ⛉ Stunned 2x
- Fulminant ⛉ Distraction 2x 🗡 Precision
Koncerz $50
Piercing
base damage = str+3
- Precise Thrust 🗡 Fury ⛓ Weakness 2x
- Pierce 2x 🗡 Precision ⛓ Stiffness
Gladius $50
Slashing/Piercing
base damage = str+3
- Poke ⛊ Attention ⛓ Weakness 2x
- Swing ⛉ Distraction 2x ⛊ Evasion
Bastard Sword $100
Slashing
base damage = str+3
- Slash 2x 🗡 Acceleration ⛓ Stiffness
- Arc hit ⛉ Unsteadiness 2x ⛊ Adrenaline
Machete $50
Slashing
base damage = str+3
- Snag cut 2x ⛊ Adrenaline ⛉ Stunned
- Chop 🗡 Fury 2x ⛉ Unsteadiness
Katana $100
Slashing
base damage = str+3
- Uchiotoshi 🗡 Acceleration ⛉ Stunned 2x
- Renzoku ⛉ Distraction 2x 🗡 Precision
Baton $25
Blunt
base damage = str+3
- Wicked poke ⛊ Attention ⛓ Severe Pain 2x
- Smash 2x ⛊ Adrenaline ⛓ Stiffness

Two Handed

Only Equippable in Shoulder Holster.

Weapon Attack vs Block vs Evade vs Counterattack
Flamberge $200
Slashing
base damage = str+5
- Short Blow ⛉ Stunned 2x 🗡 Fury
- Powerful Blow 2x 🗡 Acceleration ⛉ Unsteadiness
Naginata $200
Slashing/Piercing
base damage = str+5
- Direct Hit 🗡 Acceleration ⛉ Stunned 2x
- Scythe of Death ⛓ Weakness 2x ⛊ Evasion
Morning Star $150
Blunt
base damage = str+6
- Twisted 🗡 Fury ⛉ Stunned 2x
- Sweeping 2x 🗡 Acceleration ⛉ Unsteadiness
GreatAxe $100
Slashing
base damage = str+5
- Woodcutter 2x ⛊ Adrenaline ⛓ Severe Pain
- Crescent ⛉ Unsteadiness 2x 🗡 Fury
Baseball Bat $100
Blunt
base damage = str+5
- Knock out 2x ⛊ Adrenaline nothing (NOT ⛓ Severe Pain)
- Sweeping ⛓ Stiffness 2x ⛊ Evasion
Cattle prod $150
Morale
base damage = str+5
- Goad ⛊ Attention Severe Pain 2x
- Cattle prod 2x ⛊ Adrenaline ⛓ Stiffness