Originally Posted by geala
A nice sharpshooter build. Except that I never would play as Drow wink , I prefer to take medium armor + shields at lvl 4 for protection and use hand crossbows, for a more medium ranged combat. For solo your sharpshooter build is surely better.

But my question, why do you recommend scimitars and slashing damage? I'm using shortswords (because of the style), a +1 specimen or the one with additional damage against full-hp enemies, in the rare instances I'm in melee distance. What is the advantage of slashing damage?

Thanks. So the big reason is simply flexibility in damage types since Rogues only have access to Piercing damage currently. There is only the Wood Woad fight where this matters (they are resistant to Piercing and Bludgeoning damage) but there may be others.

Bludgeoning damage is the real problem because we don't have access to Slings yet in game so we don't have a good answer to Skeletal Undead.

Blackheifer