#weapon mastery

October Brew Festival Week 2: Warriors

You ever look at someone using weapons like the E-Liter and the Dynamo Roller and they’re rocking out that weapon? Then you go try it yourself and realize you’re slow as molasses and your attacks are being outpaced by everyone else?

Using the Heavy Weight Weapons are  somewhat different from how the rest of the weapons work because of their slower attack patterns and their speed penalty upon equipping. The weapons referred in this post today are the: 

E-Liter 4K, Dynamo Roller, Hydra Splatling, Explosher, and Tenta Brella

I’m excluding the Rainmaker since it’s only available in the Rainmaker mode and in any Single Player mode. Anyways, these weapons can have a different learning curve since they don’t really want to play with the fast pace that a lot of weapons like to play at. Instead they play more reactively with a few proactive elements being watching for foes and predicting their movements. Here are some tips from me if you ever wanted to at least dabble with these weapons but didn't know where to start:

Each weapon has a mastery property which is usuable only by a character who has a feature such as Weapon Mastery that unlocks the property for the character. The properties are defined below

Cleave: If you hit a creature with a melee attack roll using this weapon you can make a melee attack roll with the weapon against a second creature within 5 feet of the first that is also within your reach. On a hit the second creature takes the weapon's damage but don't add your ability modifier to that damage unless that modifier is negative. You can make this extra attack only once per turn. (Weapons this applies to: Greataxe and Halberd.)

Graze: If your attack roll with this weapon misses a creature you can deal damage to that creature equal to the ability modifier you used to make the attack roll. This damage is the same type dealt by the weapon and the damage can be increased only by the ability modifier. (Weapons this applies to: Glaive and Greatsword.)

Nick: When you make the extra attack of the Light Property you can make it as part of the Attack action instead of as a Bonus Action. You can make this extra attack only once per turn (Weapons this applies to: Dagger, Light Hammer, Sickle and Scimitar)

Push: If you hit a creature with this weapon that creature has Disadvantage on its next attack roll before the start of your next turn. (Weapons this applies to: Greatclub, Pike, Warhammer and Heavy Crossbow)

Sap: If you hit a creature with this weapon that creature has Disadvantage on its next attack roll before the start of your next turn. (Weapons this applies to: Mace, Spear, Flail, Longsword, Morningstar and War Pick)

Slow: If you hit a creature with this weapon and deal damage to it you can reduce its Speed by 10 feet until the start of your next turn. If the creature is hit more than once by weapons that have this property the speed reduction doesn't exceed 10 feet. (Weapons this applies to: Club, Javelin, Light Crossbow, Sling, Whip, Longbow and Musket.)

Topple: If you hit a creature with this weapon you can force the creature to make a Constitution saving throw (DC 8 plus the ability modifier used to make the attack roll and your Proficiency Bonus). On a failed save the creature has the Prone condition. (Prone Condition is. Your only movement options are to crawl or to spend an amount of movement equal to half your Speed (round down) to right yourself and thereby end the condition. If your speed is 0 you can't right yourself. You have Disadvantage on attack rolls. An attack roll against you has Advantage if the attacker is within 5 feet of you. Otherwise that attack roll has Disadvantage.) (Weapons this applies to: Quarterstaff, Battleaxe, Lance, Maul and Trident)