are there any?

the min damage is so low... i find myself doing little damage a lot, medium damage often, and max damage not as often.


why use a sword? ive already got 1 point in proficiency so i feel it would be a waste of time to use another weapon at this time.. just need some reassurance at this point.

It's usable for several classes such as the Fighter, Barbarian, Rogue, Samurai, Paladin, Ninja.

It has substantially high critical hits.

Matched along with a nice amount of dex, you'll still be dealing the lowest amount of minimum damage compared to other weapons, but you will be dealing the highest crits and maximum damage (we're excluding heavy weapons from this)

don't listen to the last part of his post
criticals first roll your damage from the regular range
then multiplies that by your crit bonus, so in the end, the crit average will remain entirely the same
http://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php?showtopic=30489317&f=272
http://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php?showtopic=31115563&f=272
http://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php?showtopic=31144496&f=272
http://forums.d2jsp.org/index.php?showtopic=31168071&f=272
some good reading if you want to learn

in the end, a sword will do more average damage than other weapons because of the undercut effect on opposing monsters defenses
but it might take a hit or more (like .2 iirc, it's in one of those threads) to kill the monster because of overkill
this makes swords a better choice if you take a while to kill a single monster, axes better when you can 2-3 shot everything

This post was edited by jbpellerin on May 27 2009 09:48pm