Currently Shovels are the #1 weapon of choice due to how combat is done. This is hands down the best weapon. Highest damage per attack, longest reach.
Blades are the worse. Lowest damage per attack, shortest reach.

DPS wise doesn't matter with how combat is done. You charge your attack and release making faster attacking weapons next to worthless for DPS because of how you hit and run tactics. But even DPS wise, blades are really lacking in DPS.

I suggest you change things up a bit.


Suggested Changes
Blades
Blades do 4x damage on backstab multiplier (currently backstab is 0%, 25%, 50%), I think you should have it 0%, 100%, 200%. This would make them more of a sneak attack and a DPS type weapon for people.
Don't touch their reach or their speed.

Axes
Axes would be 50% increased STR damage. So instead of getting say 20% STR bonus, you get 30% STR bonus. If you have 50% STR bonus, you would get 75% STR bonus.
Don't touch their base damage, speeds, nor range.

Clubs
Clubs would get 1/2 loss of skill vs defense adjustment. So if you fighting with lower skill or armored targets, your skill vs defense wouldn't be as affected by using clubs. Say fighting with 100 skill vs someone in bone armor your normal skill vs defense adjustment might be -25%. But if you using a club you would only take a -12.5%, but never get a bonus. So you wouldn't get say 2x damage if you had really high skill vs a naked target which would normally give a +10% bonus, you should still only get a +10% bonus.
Don't touch their base damage, speeds, nor range.

Picks/Shovels
Increase Pick base damage to that of a shovel. Slow pick speeds down to the same speed of a shovel. Increase range of a Pick to that of a shovel.
Don't change shovels at all.



This would greatly help balance out weapons to different choices for players on how they like to fight. Also in weapon choice based on stats.

ALL Pre Order weapons need to be changed to reflect their base type weapons.
So a preorder Shovel would have the same base damage/attack speed as any other shovel. Currently this is NOT the case.



Current Damage System (using basic numbers) (50% Backstab)
Axe Blade Club Pick Shovel
6 Base 4.5 Base 6.5 Base 7 Base 7.5 Base
100 Quality 100 Quality 100 Quality 100 Quality 100 Quality
100 Durability 100 Durability 100 Durability 100 Durability 100 Durability
50 Str Bonus 50 Str Bonus 50 Str Bonus 50 Str Bonus 50 Str Bonus
180 Power 180 Power 180 Power 180 Power 180 Power
50 Backstab 50 Backstab 50 Backstab 50 Backstab 50 Backstab
-25 Defense -25 Defense -25 Defense -25 Defense -25 Defense
27.702 Total 20.7765 Total 30.0105 Total 32.319 Total 34.6275 Total

Suggested Damage System (using basic numbers) (50% Backstab)
Axe Blade Club Pick Shovel
6 Base 4.5 Base 6.5 Base 7.5 Base 7.5 Base
100 Quality 100 Quality 100 Quality 100 Quality 100 Quality
100 Durability 100 Durability 100 Durability 100 Durability 100 Durability
75 Str Bonus 50 Str Bonus 50 Str Bonus 50 Str Bonus 50 Str Bonus
180 Power 180 Power 180 Power 180 Power 180 Power
50 Backstab 200 Backstab 50 Backstab 50 Backstab 50 Backstab
-25 Defense -25 Defense -12.5 Defense -25 Defense -25 Defense
32.319 Total 41.553 Total 35.01225 Total 34.6275 Total 34.6275 Total

Suggested Damage System (using basic numbers) (25% Backstab)
Axe Blade Club Pick Shovel
6 Base 4.5 Base 6.5 Base 7.5 Base 7.5 Base
100 Quality 100 Quality 100 Quality 100 Quality 100 Quality
100 Durability 100 Durability 100 Durability 100 Durability 100 Durability
75 Str Bonus 50 Str Bonus 50 Str Bonus 50 Str Bonus 50 Str Bonus
180 Power 180 Power 180 Power 180 Power 180 Power
25 Backstab 100 Backstab 25 Backstab 25 Backstab 25 Backstab
-25 Defense -25 Defense -12.5 Defense -25 Defense -25 Defense
26.9325 Total 27.702 Total 29.17688 Total 28.85625 Total 28.85625 Total

Suggested Damage System (using basic numbers) (0% Backstab)
Axe Blade Club Pick Shovel
6 Base 4.5 Base 6.5 Base 7.5 Base 7.5 Base
100 Quality 100 Quality 100 Quality 100 Quality 100 Quality
100 Durability 100 Durability 100 Durability 100 Durability 100 Durability
75 Str Bonus 50 Str Bonus 50 Str Bonus 50 Str Bonus 50 Str Bonus
180 Power 180 Power 180 Power 180 Power 180 Power
0 Backstab 0 Backstab 0 Backstab 0 Backstab 0 Backstab
-25 Defense -25 Defense -12.5 Defense -25 Defense -25 Defense
21.546 Total 13.851 Total 23.3415 Total 23.085 Total 23.085 Total