Weapon Geometry

From LSWiki

Some data points about weapons weight.

Tremendous

Name			weight	geometry given
*Sinbyen shimmering violet adamantite weapons
Giant Hammer		172.00	2 across, 12.5 long
Giant Scythe		76.80	0.95 across, 26 long
Giant Axe		57.35	1.35 wide, 22 long
Giant Flail		72.60	1.03 across, 18.5 long
Giant Spear		23.35	0.45 across, 31.5 long
Giant Sword		13.45	0.8 wide, 0.15 tall, 23.5 long
*Og Stuff
Giant Iron Hammer	277.50	1.95 across, 12 long  (from the smith)
Giant Club		117.00	2.75 across, 23.5 long
Giant black oak staff	61.20	1.80 across, 27 long (Bilga, material probably varies)
Giant Obsidian Axe	48.75	0.7 wide, 20 long
Giant Iron Sword	37.70	0.95 wide, 0.20 tall, 22 long
*Musspleheim
Giant Fiery Steel Mace	292.50	2.20 across, 12 long
... Hammer		218.50	0.90 across, 12 long
... Axe			87.85	1.40 wide, 21.5 long
... Sword		21.40	0.85 wide, 0.20 tall, 23 long 
Giant Blackwood Staff	24.35	1.75 across, 27 long
Hlerbani  		201.50	2.35 across, 13 long (oak and lodestone mace)
Eldrsleggja		68.55	2.15 across, 13 long (fiery granite hammer, 1/3rd the weight of other hammers?)
*Shadow Tower
Ektharnor Gadel		189.00	3.35 across, 21 long (Giant Scourge)
*Kazarithaxai
I'm too small to test.

Great

Name			weight	geometry given
*Sinbyen black adamantite weapons
Great Flail		17.85	0.65 across, 12.5 long
Great Hammer		17.45	0.7 across, 10.5 long
Greataxe		9.04	0.65 wide, 14 long
Greatspear		8.25	0.3 across, 26.5 long
Greatsword		7.10	0.65 wide, 0.15 tall, 18.5 long
*Shadow Tower
Vorpal Blade		3.68	0.65 wide, 0.15 tall, 18.5 long
Magma Maul		21.35	0.95 across, 9.90 long
Singularity Staff	17.40	0.35 across, 21.5 long
Daemonicus Omega	26.55	0.95 wide, 20.5 long (Reanada Halberd)
*Storm Rock
Bronze Great Flail 	28.45	0.60 across, 12 long
Bronze Greataxe	27.15	0.85 wide, 12.5 long
Mithril Greataxe 	8.79	0.65 wide, 14 long
*LH Grebor's Smithy
Iron Greatsword	19.85	0.80 wide, 0.20 tall, 17 long

Medium or whatever

Name			weight	geometry given
*Shadow Tower
Heavensfire		0.23	0.15 wide, 14.5 long (Longsword?)
Qith's Morning Star	9.95	0.85 across, 5.70 long
Mithril Spear		5.30	0.20 across, 21.5 long (reanada staticload)
*Storm Rock misc
Bronze Flail		20.85	0.70 across, 6.40 long
Mithril Flail		15.45	0.70 across, 6.45 long

Hypothesis (read as: my whiny complaint)

• Hammers are stupidly heavy and it's dumb and upsets me and I want someone to change it.
• Axe = stick with a heavy blade on it
• Mace = stick with a heavy turd on it
• Hammer = stick with a heavy cylinder on it
• I expect a hammer or mace's weight relative to an axe's to be between 1.0 and 1.5ish?
• If I made a "bigger" weapon for a larger/stronger wielder I'd use a longer haft and a heavier blade/turd/cylinder but expect the weight ratios to stay the same. Unless I was in Azeroth.

Process

• I collected some weapons and looked at them while holding them.

Conclusions

• Material obviously plays a huge role in weight, compare Giant fiery steel mace with Hlerbani for a 90kg difference, or adamantite vs. fiery steel weapons.
• A lot of weapons don't have distinct haft-materials, this can affect different weapons more or less based on geometry. I have no idea to what degree this matters.
• Weapon size category either has nothing, or very little to do with weight. (this isn't a surprise, but it's dumb is what I'm saying).
• Square Cube rule seems to be affecting certain weapons more than others as their dimensions are scaled up. ((Great Hammer) = 2.45 * (Greatsword). (Giant Hammer) = 12.78 * (Giant Sword) lolwat)

Not addressed here

• There are a lot of materials that are practically weightless, and that's also dumb nonsense.
• Weapon weight doesn't directly impact ratings while using it (aside from encumbering you), that's also weird. (maybe it does actually, just speculation on my part)