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A simple rebalance for halberds that compensates their increased damage by making them heavier, slower and shorter. The aim is to offer an interesting choice between halberds and spears, rather than halberds having no downside.
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Halberds Chop
This mod rebalances halberds so the choice between using a halberd or spear is more interesting. Now, compared to spears, halberds do more damage and are more versatile with different attacks, in exchange for being heavier, slower and shorter. This is done mostly using balance and stats already found in the vanilla game.
Released as part of the May Modathon 2022, celebrating 20 years of Morrowind!
Rationale
This mod rebalances halberds so the choice between using a halberd or spear is more interesting. Now, compared to spears, halberds do more damage and are more versatile with different attacks, in exchange for being heavier, slower and shorter. This is done mostly using balance and stats already found in the vanilla game.
Released as part of the May Modathon 2022, celebrating 20 years of Morrowind!
Rationale
Within vanilla Morrowind most halberds are straight upgrades to spears. Spears are good at thrust attacks, but once you find an iron or steel halberd there is no reason to use iron or steel spears, as the halberds do more thrust damage and the rest of the stats are basically identical. This is not true for the dwarven halberd, which does more thrust damage than the dwarven spear but weighs more and also isn't terrible at attacks other than thrusting. Also, why are halberds better than spears at thrusting when spears are clearly made for poking and halberds for swinging?
My rationale comes down to this:
- The dwarven halberd has a trade off vs the dwarven spear as it does more damage but weighs more. The dwarven halberd is also more versatile by not being restricted to only one attack type. This balance and the same proportional difference of the damage from different attacks can be implemented for the other halberds.
- Videos demonstrating the use of halberds show a mix of chopping and thrusting, so in the game halberds can have chopping as their most effective attack, with thrusting as a secondary attack and slashing as their worst attack.
- In addition to weighing more and doing more damage, halberds can be further differentiated from spears by making them slightly shorter and slightly slower.
My end results are the stat changes below:
