Why are there no weapons for throwing attacks?

[AndrewTilley]

@vapourfire

Suppose only a Dev can answer that one…

Which they basically did in the March 26th dev stream, where this reasoning was given:

@AndrewTilley

Q: Could we get weapons with flat throwing attack implicits?

A: Unlikely, but possible. The problem with it is that you’re not actually throwing the weapon so it makes less sense to have the flat damage on them. Flat melee damage and flat bow damage is typically reserved for the weapons. I know technically everything is a stack stick so it doesn’t really matter mechanically, but we do try to keep that feeling of ‘oh I got a big axe with a bunch of flat damage on it and it increased my damage by a ton’. It makes sense because the weapon is the thing dealing the damage. With a throwing attack you’re not actually throwing your weapon – you’re throwing ‘a dagger’ or ‘a shield’ which I know someone is going to call me out on the shield throw thing because you could be ‘holding a shield’ but you’re not throwing your version of it.
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