There is a combat issue. I have not started digging into the code to see where the problem lies. I made a Barbarian Guardian, gave him a weapon. The rat started swinging, or at least the rat was the one using slashing.

You will also notice, there is no graphic for the sword, he is not shown to be wielding it.

EDIT: I just tried a breastplate and two different clients, none of them showed a graphic. Is this on my end? Can someone try it on the test server for me?

I tested this locally and the crab I attacked was slashing as well. Tried using a piercing weapon instead and crab was still slashing.

Also I created a Barbarian Guardian to check out your graphic issue and had no problems with weapon and armor displaying.

Hope that helps.

Just so we are talking Apples and Apples, can you give me the item id's of the ones you used?

Okay, I have armor showing now. I have been trying to trim my tables and accidentally emptied the item_appearances table. Weapons still are not showing.

Off the top of my head slashing is the default melee damage type so almost all NPC's will use slashing damage, not sure why the player was doing crushing damage with a sword though.

Also any item that needs to have a visual in the world needs an entry in the item_appearances table, this goes for armor/weapons as well as house items.

Okay, my visuals are completely fixed. That part was my fault. I will dig into the weapon skills this week, I will track down what is going on with them.

Moving to archives this week, unless notified otherwise.