Greetings Grim Dawninians! It is with great pleasure to Announce that I have managed to crawl out of the artist pit long enough to bring you a special glimpse of some of the up-and-coming Savage™ 2-handed melee weapon class.
As many of you know, Cairn is a war-torn world with very limited resources. In as much, we’ve tried to capture a sense of improvised necessity and desperation in the earlier tiers of our common weapon classes: An old farm scythe strapped on a large stick becomes a new axe, while rusty old gears from some forgotten contraption has been reincarnated as a sturdy bashing stick. After several tiers of cobbled, improvised killing devices, you will start to see the remnants of greater weapons from the ages past. These rare weapons are coveted most of all, for very few now possess the skill or knowledge to recreate their glorious craftsmanship.
Below is a small sampling of a few 2-handers from the 3 melee types (sword, axe and hammer). Most are lower level, but I included a couple higher tiers to show some progression. I’ve also included the concept with each item so you can see a little before and after action. Please take care not to cut yourself while handling the images, some of the blades probably have a decent amount of tetanus (or something worse).
Hope you enjoy!
Awesome! The pieced together parts are very fitting, love this apocalyptic, scavenging atmosphere.
Didn’t expect 2handers to become part of the existing items, I thought they were going to be a separate category. This way is better off course! Do they work with every melee skill?
I am curious how these weapons shall be held? Either by holding a single grip area with two hands being close together (same as holding a basic two handed sword), or will the arms be separated, one closer to the bottom grip and the other closed to the blade? It would seem strange if our character is holding a grand axe the same way the two handed sword is held by two hands close together on bottom grip. It would seem there should be two two-handed weapon stances. One for two handed sword the other for two-handed axes and hammers
So, if I understand this correctly, those items will be available in the next major build. Preferably B18?. OP said: “upcoming two-handed weapon class”. So it is confirmed, the next class after Arcanist is Savage class?
