its an two handed strength based weapon that also allows you to attack with an bonus action, the paladin is all about those super rare crits and the ability to deal more damage per attack with spells like divine favor and their improved divine smite, as well as their abillity to deal a lot of damage when they crit, so having another attack to get another chance to crit every turn just seems so perfect for the class. And the class already uses a lot of d4's with stuff like bless, divine favor, crusaders mantle, elemental weapon, so it just seems like the weapon fits the paladin really really well
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It's definitely a good weapon for damage-oriented paladins, and can potentially save a feat in your build from polearm master. But it costs you the use of your shield, limits you to one specific weapon that is unlikely to come up in magic item treasure tables unless the DM specifically throws you a bone, might not exist in campaigns outside of eberron, and inside of eberron if you're wielding one and you're not a valenar elf - not exactly an ideal paladin race - you're potentially inviting a lot of trouble. Half elves are an ideal paladin race, but it's up to your DM whether npc valenar would consider a half elf wielding one to be acceptable.
None of that isn't to say it isn't a good weapon for paladins. Tanking paladins should stick to one handed weapons so they can carry a shield, but for damage oriented paladins the double scimitar is *very* good. It just isn't available in many games, and when it is it can come with a lot of strings attached.
eh, i mean if an valenar wants to challenge my worthiness of wielding the double bladed scimitar, i can simply challenge them to a duel of honor to prove how good i am with the weapon and then defeat them with the power of god on my side, especially if i choose to play half elf, who has little bit of valenar blood in them such an demand would have a lot more weight, or if i play an tiefling with elven heritage or an aasimar who also has an elven heritage. Even an dex based build with mark of shadow or just any subrace with revenant blade
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i am soup, with too many ideas (all of them very spicy) who has made sufficient homebrew material and character to last an thousand human lifetimes
There are three things that a Glaive has over the Double Bladed Scimitar:
1. Heavy property which makes it eligible for Great Weapon Master feat
2. Reach 10ft
3. if you take the Double Bladed Scimitar to avoid taking Polearm Master feat, you also lose the ability to attack anything that comes up to you as an AoO. And this is HUGE because, like I said above, the Glaive has reach 10ft.
Is it good? Yeah. But it's definitely not better than Glaive+Polearm Master.
The 2H sword is the perfect paladin weapon. "Let faith be my shield. As I live, I take the cross on my back. When I die, bury me with the cross as my grave stone."
its an two handed strength based weapon that also allows you to attack with an bonus action, the paladin is all about those super rare crits and the ability to deal more damage per attack with spells like divine favor and their improved divine smite, as well as their abillity to deal a lot of damage when they crit, so having another attack to get another chance to crit every turn just seems so perfect for the class. And the class already uses a lot of d4's with stuff like bless, divine favor, crusaders mantle, elemental weapon, so it just seems like the weapon fits the paladin really really well
i am soup, with too many ideas (all of them very spicy) who has made sufficient homebrew material and character to last an thousand human lifetimes
It's definitely a good weapon for damage-oriented paladins, and can potentially save a feat in your build from polearm master. But it costs you the use of your shield, limits you to one specific weapon that is unlikely to come up in magic item treasure tables unless the DM specifically throws you a bone, might not exist in campaigns outside of eberron, and inside of eberron if you're wielding one and you're not a valenar elf - not exactly an ideal paladin race - you're potentially inviting a lot of trouble. Half elves are an ideal paladin race, but it's up to your DM whether npc valenar would consider a half elf wielding one to be acceptable.
None of that isn't to say it isn't a good weapon for paladins. Tanking paladins should stick to one handed weapons so they can carry a shield, but for damage oriented paladins the double scimitar is *very* good. It just isn't available in many games, and when it is it can come with a lot of strings attached.
eh, i mean if an valenar wants to challenge my worthiness of wielding the double bladed scimitar, i can simply challenge them to a duel of honor to prove how good i am with the weapon and then defeat them with the power of god on my side, especially if i choose to play half elf, who has little bit of valenar blood in them such an demand would have a lot more weight, or if i play an tiefling with elven heritage or an aasimar who also has an elven heritage. Even an dex based build with mark of shadow or just any subrace with revenant blade
i am soup, with too many ideas (all of them very spicy) who has made sufficient homebrew material and character to last an thousand human lifetimes
There are three things that a Glaive has over the Double Bladed Scimitar:
1. Heavy property which makes it eligible for Great Weapon Master feat
2. Reach 10ft
3. if you take the Double Bladed Scimitar to avoid taking Polearm Master feat, you also lose the ability to attack anything that comes up to you as an AoO. And this is HUGE because, like I said above, the Glaive has reach 10ft.
Is it good? Yeah. But it's definitely not better than Glaive+Polearm Master.
The 2H sword is the perfect paladin weapon. "Let faith be my shield. As I live, I take the cross on my back. When I die, bury me with the cross as my grave stone."