Onyx Gouger

"A cruel Spear designed to rip and tear through flesh..."

The Onyx Gouger is a low tier craftable spear that has the unique ability to do backstab damage and is the only non-dagger based weapon to do so. It is considered to be the upgraded form of the Steel Spear, though, some can argue that it is inferior.

Requirements / Stats
Spears: 7
 * Durability: 150
 * Gear Type: Primary Weapon
 * Skill Type: Spears
 * Damage: 7
 * Critical: 12% chance for +7 damage
 * Speed: 28 ticks between attacks
 * Range: Extra-Reach Melee
 * Reload: N/A
 * Breaks: N/A
 * Movement: -0.2 (Slightly slower)
 * Repairable: True (3$ per durability)
 * Specials: Backstab for +2 damage

Obtain
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 * Crafting (1 Steel Spear, 1 Onyx)

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 * Drops

Overview
The Onyx Gouger is a low tier spear that can be a challenge to craft early game due to using rare onyx to craft, but is possible to craft early game. While needing the Steel Spear in order to craft, it's stats seems to be inferior than the steel spear in many aspects. Like most other spears, this spear can multi-hit and has extra melee reach making it strike targets at a further range than other melee weapons. Compared to the Steel Spear, it does +2 more critical damage, has 2 ticks faster attack speed, and has the +2 backstab bonus. At what cost though? It loses 1 damage, has an 8% less critical chance, 350 less durability (less than half the original durability), requiring 2 more spears to use, and a higher movement speed penalty of -0.2 as opposed to -0.1 making it harder to move around with the weapon and thus making it harder to backstab with said weapon which defeats the purpose of its special. I am not even going to bother comparing this to the Mythril Spear (the other weapon a Steel Spear can be crafted into) because the Onyx Gouger is practically inferior to it in every way save for smaller repair cost and backstab bonus. Overall, pretty crap spear that isn't even worth crafting or using.

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