That is quite the glow-up from its previous incarnation!

While I'm sad to see the critical hit extra damage go, I understand.

Well, when you think about it, you didn't lose it. 

This is part of a weapons damage.  So a scimitar does 1d6 +2d6 per turn now. And when you crit, that doubles.  

Instead of 3d6 , you have 6d6 , an additional 3d6 . Your extra crit is minimum :3 , average 9 and maximum of 18 damage. 
That's unless they changed the rules on how critical damage works. 

I meant more, the 2014 weapon was a lot simpler and easier to hand out. Now it's significantly more powerful. Admittedly, its 2014 version was probably not worth of the rarity but I liked that mechanic.

Isn't this just straight up better than a flame-tongue in every imaginable way?

So does the damage type change with the pact of the blade feature where it could be radiant, necrotic or psychic damage?

I would certainly rule it so.

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Isn't this just straight up better than a flame-tongue in every imaginable way?

 Not if you need to kill trolls or other regenerators. But otherwise yes

Why can't i find these weapons in the caracter manager. Can't add this to any of my characters. Meh.

Absolutely broken, would ban immediately.

Why would you ban a weapon you handed out to the players? And it doesn;t really do anything broken, just deals more damage. Pretty good to give out to characters who struggle a bit on the damage front, such as defensive fighters or pure rogues.

seems kind of way too strong to not have an attunement. 

every martial class is going to be trying to dual wield these now. 

not everybody plays at a table where the DM has absolute authority. lots of the tables are just friend groups and nobody wants to be the guy that bans a weapon. 

they are reliant on wizards to actually attempt to balance the things they put into their books. 

this weapon at least should have an attunement.

on a crit it does an extra 4d6 so i dont know what ya mean lol

If you do the math (average damage of die, 65% hit chance baseline, going up +5% accuracy for every +1 to-hit bonus), the vicious weapons are now stronger than a +3 weapon.

On a small damage die like a dagger, it's nearly as strong as a +4 weapon (8.8 vicious vs 8.9 +4), while on a larger damage weapon like the great sword it does more damage vs a +3 (11.7 vs 11.2), but it loses more clearly than the dagger to a +4 (11.7 vicious vs 12.75 of +4 greatsword)

This thing is stupidly too strong and I suspect that the creators meant to keep it the same as the previous junky version, only doing damage on a 20, but forgot a sentence