Okay, well, I've been saving up information on a little sheet of paper here on my desk for some time now, listing my pointed and attack, etc, so I can keep track of how I'm doing. This game is basically a collection of statistics anyway, so I figured, hey, what the hell, I'll put it all on Excel, and this is what I came up with:

Excel Stats

Oh I can hear it now "WHAT?? YOU MADE A GRAPH?" Yes I did, so blow me!! I enjoy stats, so much so, that I went and did a little research project...

I took the four basic pointed weapons that are mostly used:

Tainted Knife, Glittering Dagger, Dragonlance, Stone Dagger

And using each one, I killed 5 gnolls, timing each gnoll I killed. I came up with this graph of results:

Pointed Weapons Comparison

I dropped the highest time (red) and the lowest time (green) off, leaving the middle 3, of which I took the average of.

The tainted knife, being the most powerful 'combat' weapon (without gcommand or special's use) was given the top score of 100, which, for comparison purposes, can be called a percentage. The other weapons are given a number that is the overall percentage of power that the tainted knife has. Hence, the stone dagger is 35% as powerful as the tainted knife, for a power rating of 35.

I don't really have enough edged (see above) to do this test with edged weapons, and I know damn well i don't have enough blunt at all. But I know a lot of the newbie players question what weapons are best or worst, etc.

I will hopefully update this graph with sky dagger, flash dagger, ice dagger, demon spear, and perhaps even shortsword, spear, and plain ole' guild dagger, if they will ever kill a gnoll.