Confusion over weapon skills.

[Adewale]

Came back for DoF and the combat changes and after leveling my Zerker to 53, I thought I'd start playing my alt Bruiser again. He's 21 and when I left, he had some Cestii that used the Fists skill, which everyone at the time said was the best route to go. However, now I notice that there doesn't seem to be a Fists skill. Also, the weapon does slashing damage, yet my slashing skill never goes up (42/108 or so) and my Fiery Fists stance only raises crushing. So, my question is, is the Cestii actually considered a crushing weapon, but it outputs slashing damage so that Brawlers would be able to have different damage types? <div></div>

[kildarn]

<DIV>Can we get this stickied?  I think this question gets asked once or twice every week.  No offense to the poster or anything.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Every single weapon a brawler type can use is based off of the crushing SKILL.  This means that the check "to hit" the mob is based off of your crushing skill.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Different weapons, cesti, cestus do different types of DAMAGE.  Piercing and slashing are done by those weapons.  Crushing DAMAGE is done by sticks, knuckles, and fistwraps.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>So, if you have your combat stats running in your chat window you can see the difference.  You will get SKILL increases for crushing no matter what weapon you use.  But if you are using cesti or cestus you will see piercing or slashing DAMAGE to the mob.</DIV>

[ganjookie]

We should copy and paste anddo a lil editing on the monks FAQ they have stickied <div></div>