The Item and Class Stat Balance Thread

[Winter]

I am a little naive to the way damage in modeled in NI when it comes to armor penetration/ignoring of the damage types, but it would make sense, from a real world perspective, for some of the weapons with a more blunt tip to do blunt damage. That said, most, if not all, of the swords I can recall are very pointy.

Blunt does around 5% more armor penetration than pierce.  That number is, in most cases, negligible.  A new line of swords would also require new models, most likely along the lines of the War Cleaver.

Most of us will have no clue on how it will change things.

Think of the axes the Varangian Guards use and their ability to thrust.  It would be similar to that.  The main point would be to allow you to use your thrust to knock an enemy off guard/down.  Pierce already does the job pretty well, but the added knock-down chance adding diversity and the sense it would make having a blunted sword thrust to do blunt damage are the main arguments for this addition.