Weapon cleave skill

Skill 'weapon cleave'.

• Group: 'weaponsmaster'.
• Execution delay: 6 seconds.
• Costs: mana 200, moves 40.
• Available to classes: anti-paladin 34, ninja 35, paladin 34, ranger 38, samurai 29, thief 37, vampire 44, warrior 29

Format: weapon

Professional warriors can cleave an opponent's weapon with an edged sword, axe or polearm. Every successful blow hacks a deep notch into the weapon, and once it is worn through, splits it in two. The chance depends on your skill, your proficiency with your weapon against the opponent's with theirs (or their grip), your strength against the opponent's constitution or dexterity, the level of the items, your size against the opponent's, and most of all on the materials: steel bites into soft metal but bounces off adamantite. A battered weapon gives way much more easily. Cleaving is easier mounted, and harder with a sword than with an axe or polearm.

On a failure your weapon rings off, stunning you for a moment, though the opponent's weapon still takes a couple of nicks. A limited weapon or one made of indestructible material cannot be cleaved.