chapotraphouse

What the hell do shields have to do with poison, homie? You alright?

Shield is not a weapon

Your picks are thoroughly incorrect

the spear doubles as a magic rod

Nice try.

light -> bow

i know what you are

poison no dart

shield??? what?? how would that even work?

a lot of these i'm not really that attached to but water-shield and ice-hammer seem super obvious to me

Death to America

I'm glad to see people correctly picking Water Spear

Not sure why, maybe the spear fighting in video games I've seen is usually pretty fluid/flowing (excellent source, I know)

I like this

I put all of them on hammer

It's pretty easy, really

• Light shield to protect against the darkness
• Poison dagger, because poison coated dagger is a classic
• Darkness sword because it seems to be the most convenient to swing around in the dark when you don't see anything
• Thunder whip because they have a lot of similarity, long and thin, with a crack on impact
• Wind bow because the arrows fly through the air
• Nature claws because they remind me of a bear's claws
• Water spear because of Poseidon's trident
• Earth knuckle because fist fighting is a RETVRN to traditions
• Ice hammer for breaking the ice
• Fire axe because why not, they are the last ones

First, this was exactly what my daughters needed to shake themselves out of a grumpy morning, so thank you for sharing this

Second, here are the Objectively Correct Answers, in order of correctness:

• Wind shield: Blocking and deflecting blows isn't cool. You know what's cool? Sending your stupid assailant flying backwards complete with ragdoll physics. Most importantly, you can flip your wind shield over and use it as a hoverboard.
• Thunder bow: Lightning is awesome as long as it's sufficiently far away from you. Making lightning strike wherever an arrow can reach? Super impressive and solves many potential problems before they become actual, in-your-face problems.
• Earth knuckles: When you punch someone in the face, do you want to zap them? Freeze them? Make them damp? No. You want to punch someone in the face with the power of a falling boulder. You want to hear that "earth cracking" sound effect.
• Fire whip: You're the person at the party with the devil sticks. You're the person who holds a pose just a hair too long when entering a room. You were born to wield the fire whip.
• Ice spear: We're doing crowd control here. We're freezing our enemies before they can close in on us. We're surrounding ourselves with statues of things that wish us harm.
• Poison claws: The only unanimous decision in our family. (We have two cats.)
• Nature axe: Creation and destruction. It's, like, a metaphor, man.
• Darkness dagger: Daggers are all about being sneaky. In and out, quick stabby murder before anyone notices. What's better than a little extra cover of darkness for this?
• Light sword: Skyward Sword was an underrated game.
• Water hammer: You've used everything else, now it's time to go back through one last time and do a non-lethal run. Hits like a giant wet sponge.

wip

i took nature to mean like, plants, and i think swords and flowers go good together

anyone not directing earth to shield is increbibly wrong

Are we talking what kind of elemental affinity we'd assign to a weapon or what enchantment would work best with it?

Surprise is the best element for every weapon.

Posting my take before I wade into the struggle session

Adding reasoning:

Earth shield, obvious sturdy combo

Dark dagger, good for sneaking

Light sword, holy relic but still kinda basic

Ice axe, did this one last but it kinda still makes sense

Nature whip, pokemon vine whip need I say more

Wind bow, long shots, gusts can alter arrows trajectory

Fire claws, fast attacka make the cumulative damage add up quickly, similar to the poison knuckles reasoning

Water spear, sweeping fluid slashing and sharp, jet like stabs just fit water. Fluid yet forceful

Poison knuckles, rapid punches add up the poison damage fast

Thunder hammer, it's already a great big concussive hit, thunder just increases it