ABS uniques and rares

[Pulverwise]

Splitting up combo and dodge uniques is silly. Let's just say there are 16 'defence' uniques (although with some uncertainty around daggers loading again)

Of those, your list of 'awesome' is also way off. Every single one of those listed is better than the 'normal weapon' alternative. Some of them are stupidly good because they're based off a rare - k-sword, Lamans etc.. each one of them tends to give higher damage than an alternative but also additional defence.

Abs weapons would just make you more offensive (not in a Pial way).

[pial]

Abs weapons would just make you more offensive (not in a Pial way).

There's not a weapon in this game that could make you more offensive!

[Venum]

Yeah, that Turak dude definitely wasn't using an abs heron, he was dressed in freaky lord garb with emo nails and his servants were all naked. But yeah he was a blademaster with a heron, I remember because Rand saw it and was like awwwwww dung. But then he beat him somehow. Same thing when Galad killed that corrupt CoL guy... he was better but Galad slow played him Muhumad Ali style and then slayed him.

I did a re-read of the first book, because it is so awesome, but I really don't have the time to go re-reading 8000 more pages

[Elysia]

Turak apparently had a last name I think I never heard before:

https://library.tarvalon.net/index.php? ... rak_Aladon

Turak catches Rand, Mat, Perrin, Ingtar and Hurin as they sneak into Falme. In the fight that follows, Rand barely manages to defeat Turak, who is a blademaster (TGH, Ch. 45).

I pulled up that chapter and Turak was definitely not using an abs heron, considering he wasn't wearing any armor at all. He was fighting Rand with bare arms and chest and wearing nothing but a sash holding up white trousers with pleats.

[arkaza]

He was obviously just throwing salt on Rand "Zarth style," using abs-heron naked. It was a big, curved, seanchan sword. I always imagined seanchan swords as big scimitars, and I remember this one being described as not looking like anything normal to Rand.

#saltlife

[Venum]

Good good.... I've got immortals using the term "abs heron" my plan is working!

[Lykan]

I'm glad Arkaza understands me! I never meant he was wearing armor...I remember him being a perfumed jackass with crazy-long fingernails. I just meant that I thought his sword was unusually large or long or something. Maybe the hilt was just longer to accommodate his nancy fingernails, idk. Maybe I'm just misremembering or drew the wrong impression, too, it's been quite a while.

[Elysia]

There's a reference to Turak drawing "the heavy, curved sword". But I have no idea if that's a Seanchan thing or a personal thing.

[krul]

Seanchan style was generally very curvy.

[arkaza]

Jordan describes a scimitar without saying "the guy wielded a scimitar," just like a normal heron is described as a katana without saying as much.