handaxe ECW and up or 8x perfect and up

[Helsfeld]

found a ethereal string.... need a handaxe to put on it... or even uber hammers...

have plenty of coins and a golvern returner handaxe or that has fire flares I could trade also a 1k sack and others let me know!

[Helsfeld]

Giving this a week then I'm stringing a feras handaxe like a boss

[Gelston]

no balls

[Archigeek]

I spent about a year looking for a suitable candidate, and then decided to just go ahead and buy one of the few 4x ecw handaxes and then added 4 enchants via PPs. It was rediculously expensive, but got me what I wanted.

I think you will have your best luck looking for a low enchant hammer with a high level of weighting, and then enchant it up. Otherwise, the few very uber axes out there are in hands that just aren't going to give them up to you. You'd have better luck selling them your string than getting them to give up their handaxes.

[Vorpodu]

I bet he does get an ECW OHE for his string..

[Helsfeld]

why you have one to sell me?

[Helsfeld]

so I've decided to use the string


You make a precise attempt to punch Xitu!
Your attack is hindered by holding an ethereal string!
You have decent positioning against Xitu.
UAF: 196 vs UDF: 500 = 0.392 * MM: 75 + d100: 26 = 55
A close miss!
Roundtime: 4 sec.
R>
Xitu chuckles.

[Vorpodu]

Haha I wish. More like just eluding to the fact that you have a lot of good shit, and more than likely have something to trade that somebody wants.

[Archigeek]

It can't just be an OHE, it has to be a handaxe... or a dagger. Or for blunts you can put it on a hammer. Those are your only choices other than a pure hurling weapon such as a discus or quoit or chakram. None of those make any sense except for the handaxe and the hammer. You'd be a fool to put it on any of the others.

[Androidpk]

What do you mean a quoit doesn't make sense??

[Vorpodu]

Yea I see your point. Might just be worth it so you can't lose something, though. I wouldn't wanna lose an ECW longsword, for example.

[Tolwynn]

String up a chakram and then you can go all Xena on critters.

[Dosselmeyer]

I have a 7X max light zested perfect. I also hav the PP to get it to 8X. Shoot me a PM if your interested.

[Helsfeld]

Still looking

[Helsfeld]

Your ethereal string will not work with your axe. It must be a hammer, quoit/discus, dagger, or handaxe base. Please ASSIST if you need help.

I never believe what people say the bastard axes do not work lol

[Mumblz]

You can look for me on teras, i believe hoy told you about my max light perfect mithril handaxe...

[Helsfeld]

Your a stout mistwood-hafted miner's axe with a keen mithril wedge is too exquisite to attach an ethereal string to.

apparently even zested doesn't work....

[BriarFox]

Has to have absolutely zero scripts, I believe.

[Helsfeld]

stepping down to looking for high enchant HCW or those faenor VHCW(higher then +8 enchant) or HCW hammers

[Buckwheet]

Just to add this here I did testing for figuring out what to string and a war hammer has a 66.5% crush 33.5% puncture rate while a handaxe has 37.5 slash, 62.5 crush. The handaxe has the higher DFs.

So which would you other hurlers prefer to have? I think I would go with the handaxe because of the slightly higher DFs and because if you hit the head with a rank 3 and not crit you can switch to the neck and a slash/crush shot there is pretty effective. Punctures to the head/neck might not be as strong.

[nocturnix]

Where do these strings come from and how can i "find" one?!

[Sile]

Usually having mounds of silver/cash or other nice gear is a good start.

[Archigeek]

Just to add this here I did testing for figuring out what to string and a war hammer has a 66.5% crush 33.5% puncture rate while a handaxe has 37.5 slash, 62.5 crush. The handaxe has the higher DFs.

So which would you other hurlers prefer to have? I think I would go with the handaxe because of the slightly higher DFs and because if you hit the head with a rank 3 and not crit you can switch to the neck and a slash/crush shot there is pretty effective. Punctures to the head/neck might not be as strong.

Since for RP reasons Kerl doesn't use hammers or swords (generally only axes) this question was moot for me. If it hadn't been, I would have seriously considered hammers because I think it might have been possible to find an MCW one. I think mechanically they're probably pretty close

And for what it's worth, I frequently follow your described technique: head shot, if that doesn't kill, go to neck shot. Since the headshot has likely reduced the foe's DS a good amount and it is likely stunned, the neck shot is even more likely to succeed.

[Helsfeld]

Bump