Practicality of Scythe Weapons in AO

I imagine scythe weapons would have curved/sweeping attacks as their main focal point. Maybe something similar to selino?

That makes me wonder about why bows are so mundane despite requiring strength (like swords). All we got with them is: ā€œbunch of arrows shot at the air in a very small time frameā€, ā€œbunch of arrows shot at someone in a very small time frameā€, or ā€œone arrow that’s launched with so much power that it breaks the bow (how does it even gets launched then bro :sob:)ā€.

You forgot the asterisk:

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The player just breaks the bow over their knee and throws the arrow like a dart/spear

:x:

The scythe was, historically, a shockingly common weapon despite being mostly impractical because it functioned as an easy to wield (if imbalanced) polearm that everyone at the time had, especially used is peasant uprisings

its use even lead to some weapons being based off of scythes modified to be more usable in battle like the Russian war scythe (similar to a glaive)

the conclusion to this rant is that i don’t care about scythes give us glaives in ao PLEASE-

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oh yrnio already made this point post cancelled

Does it plant peashooters

Well that’s good to hear cause I’m tired of people acting confused when a fantasy world has fantastical elements like farmer tools being sick ass magical weapons

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Anyone else get this reference?

I concur glaives are incredibly sexy and have a really nice moveset

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Nice to see somebody got it lol. ā€œCrashing a musket buyback in sameriaā€

thank you for the history lesson

General rule of thumb: If its a farming tool, it can probably kill you.
Yes, even shovels, they’re sharper than you think they are.

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You can kill people with ANY tool ever made

It is impossible to make a tool that couldnt kill someone somehow

I mostly mean that most farming tools share major similarities with ā€˜real’ weapons and are only slightly less practical.

Like there’s very little difference between a spear and a well-sharpened shovel lol

People be deadass telling us scythes can’t work as weapons when there’s bright red sharks larger than buildings and people literally can shoot magma out of their hands :roll_eyes: are they going to tell us next about how it would be just preposterous if something like potions that could change the property of your blood existed or something?

Oh wait.

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It would be just preposterous if something like potions that could change the property of your blood existed!

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Ikr :sob: it doesn’t even look like a trident in the slightest

(It does however fit the description of a ā€œpidentā€ far better)

Me when I go killing people with a knife but use the blunt part so I don’t accidentally hurt them:

Actually now that I think about it pretty much every major Ravenna themed boss’ weapon drops are very impractical (with a few exceptions, but even then those are up for debate in more nuanced discussion)