Editing Grod

|Desirability = Grod is one of the many weapons that finds itself in the two-handed artifacts debate: it makes an exceptionally powerful melee weapon, but incurs a very worrying [[DV]] loss both directly and through its inability to be used with a shield. With Grod, this tends to result in high-risk, high-return situations against powerful enemies, as the PC should usually expect to have to withstand as much damage as it deals (except for perhaps high level [[Barbarian (class)|Barbarians]], which can ''really'' smash enemies up with this weapon).

Grod not only has a remarkable damage potential, but its slaying powers are particularly excellent, ensuring critical hits against some of the game's most powerful monsters including [[balor]]s, [[greater moloch]]s and [[greater titan]]s. Its increased critical hit rate means that it is somewhat likely to be as powerful against any other monster, though. Fire immunity is also very helpful, though not the most difficult immunity to get.