Talk:Bane

Move section on Puddingbane?

Perhaps Puddingbane ought to be moved to its own page and then linked to from the top of this one? (Or simply incorporated into the Pudding farming page) After all, Puddingbane is unlike all of the rest of the artifacts on this page as it doesn't reduce the chance of getting a more useful artifact by existing, as it isn't an artifact; it also doesn't deal double damage, rather the reverse in fact.

65.102.195.60 04:05, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

This page should be split up and reduced to a disambiguation page. "The Banes" are linked solely by being called Foobane, and half the weapons listed here aren't even that! Also, welcome to NetHackWiki, 65'; could you please create an account? :-) --Jayt 11:29, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Does Cyclops count as a giant?

My healer gets Giantslayer pretty often, I mean, and it'd be nice to know whether it did double damage on his quest nemesis or not.

- Potman (Guest) 10 December 2006

Cyclops and Lord Surtur count as giants in this case. I've updated the article now. --ZeroOne 21:08, 10 December 2006 (UTC)

How to fix the Banes? Perhaps skewing generation towards the monster you can now kill more easily, and a small chance of risk-free non-exploding enchantment for each one killed.--PeterGFin 13:31, January 9, 2010 (UTC)

I think most of the content here should be merged into the artifacts' respective pages

Nine top-level sections, each of them only a few sentences long, does not make for a good-looking page. Additionally, it seems that most information here is redundant with the artifacts' main pages.

Seems like it would be a better idea to merge any non-redundant content (including variant content) into those main pages, and simply make this page read something like:

"The Banes are a group of artifact weapons, etcetera etcetera...

• Demonbane
• Dragonbane
• Giantslayer
• ... and so on.

Despite its name, Magicbane isn't usually considered a bane because it doesn't have a double damage bonus against a specific type of monster. The sprig of wolfsbane etcetera..."

--Phol ende wodan (talk) 23:41, 13 March 2020 (UTC)

Seconded. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 03:59, 15 March 2020 (UTC)

Todo regarding buffs in variants

How much info would be too much? The reason most of that info was moved to individual weapon pages was to avoid the problems from the previous discussion. --Aximili (talk) 04:09, 30 March 2020 (UTC)

Mostly just "general" info on the addition of new/replacement Banes or the alteration/removal of others - I feel like Giantkiller isn't the only bane-related change in SLASH'EM, say - but naturally keep more weapon-specific info to the appropriate article. We only have two variants so far and I feel like there's a lot more applicable variants to at least mention. --Umbire the Phantom (talk) 05:04, 30 March 2020 (UTC)