User:Sigm@/Polearm

General
A Polearm is a two handed weapon. Most Polearms cause blunt damage, but some cause piercing damage.


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The Ulfsark's Polearm Mastery attribute improves damage dealt by the Polearm and related skills, and is often a requirement for this weapon type.

Polearm Attacks can only be performed when equipped with a Polearm. For a list of polearm attacks, see Polearm Mastery skills.

Damage Stats
Being two-handed weapons, Polearms offer the highest damage range of all weapons, but at the cost of negating the benefit of a left hand item like a shield or focus item.

The maximum damage range for hammers is 20-50 and the minimum damage range is 10-15. Polearms with maximum damage have been observed with attribute requirements as low as 8, polearms with an attribute requirement of 0 have been observed with damage ranges as high as 10-15.

Hammers are slower than other weapons, and swing once every 2.00 seconds.

The speciality of Polearms compared to other melee weapons is that polearms can be used to Stun a foe.