The big cheese: using a glaive
The big cheese: using a glaive
Since it doesn't look like User Unfriendly has gotten around to playing TOEE yet, I'll supply the cheese this time out.
The best weapon type in TOEE is unquestionably the polearm, and the glaive seems to be the best of those. It has four times the reach of a longsword in combat, and that includes attacks of opportunity. Combine someone using a glaive with greater cleave and combat reflexes (unlimited AoO) and you have a character at least three times more effective then one with the same feats and a longsword or axe.
If you haven't tried equipping at least one member of your party this way yet, you really should give it a try.
The best weapon type in TOEE is unquestionably the polearm, and the glaive seems to be the best of those. It has four times the reach of a longsword in combat, and that includes attacks of opportunity. Combine someone using a glaive with greater cleave and combat reflexes (unlimited AoO) and you have a character at least three times more effective then one with the same feats and a longsword or axe.
If you haven't tried equipping at least one member of your party this way yet, you really should give it a try.
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Keen Glaive +2 is the cheese.
You have to craft it yourself, but it's not too hard. A level 10 wizard or sorcerer can do it provided they have the keen spell. You do have to do it in the right order though...add the +1, then add keen, then add the +2. Enchantments do not want to stick on items that are already +2. (bug)
You can skip adding the plus one by using the enchant weapon spell and then immediately crafting the item...but that's cheating, lol. I don't think it will let you add more than +2 and one other enchantment anyway.
My fighter with this weapon gets AoOs out the wazoo. He has the most kills and the most crits by far, even though my other two fighters have improved crit. Keen Glaive +2 is better than improved crit, but don't do both...they don't stack.
Keen Glaive +2 is the cheese.
You have to craft it yourself, but it's not too hard. A level 10 wizard or sorcerer can do it provided they have the keen spell. You do have to do it in the right order though...add the +1, then add keen, then add the +2. Enchantments do not want to stick on items that are already +2. (bug)
You can skip adding the plus one by using the enchant weapon spell and then immediately crafting the item...but that's cheating, lol. I don't think it will let you add more than +2 and one other enchantment anyway.
My fighter with this weapon gets AoOs out the wazoo. He has the most kills and the most crits by far, even though my other two fighters have improved crit. Keen Glaive +2 is better than improved crit, but don't do both...they don't stack.
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Essentially. I can't begin to explain -why- the game does it this way, but it does. I recommend the glaive simple because it has the best base damage of the pole arm weapons (and since neither keen nor improved critical actually seem to work, regardless of what else has been posted above, base damage seems the most important).