Sickle moon opinions pls?

[SlipA]

Sickle moon, GS 200 WS, how does damage compare to guillo, what's tp return, and is it affected noticably by sneak attack? Basically, I'm looking for a little more renkei flexibility, specifically something for distortion that doesnt depend on vorpal or slice, which might, if you're lucky, do 100 dmg on a wild sheep. Crescent moon doesnt seem so spectacular : /

[MAK]

Its not a bad WS..i like how it looks. A 300% moon with sneak+trick will do more dmg then a sneak+trick guillotine at any %. Just that fact you have to build up to 300% TP to make it strong sucks.. Its a decent WS but its only 2 swings with a sword where guillotine is 4 with a scythe.

[Evol]

Is Crescent Moon a good WS to use?

[Sorath]

Crescent moon... sigh weak weak weak.

Sicklemoon, vast improvement over crescent. ^^

It won't be replacing Guillotine for TP return, 2 hits with GS = 24~ TP

Guillo 4hits = 50% TP

But as Mak mentioned, being the strongest phys WS with 2 hits, stacks well with fuidama, since only the first hit of the WS gets modified by sneak attack, the dmg increase in Sickle is alot more obvious than Guillo.

Of course at 65 you will be favoring Cross Reaper over Sicklemoon, since your shiny new 225WS for scythe can close darkness, and stacks just as well with fuidama if not better. also 2 hit.

66 = Spinning Slash, which is better than sickle (only 1 hit though) but closes Light renkei very well, and is highly requested by PTs from 66 onwards, especially once you start exping on skeletons in ranperres tomb/gustav tunnel, or weapons etc in romaeve, to name a few.