question regarding melee: has ANYONE ever beaten the AOD in the Unholy Cathedral? its sorta ripped, as by the time you get to it you are dangerously low on healers, and even then he rips u to shreds. it does not matter if it is AoB or not, u still must get Creamed in one hit if u try to fight him. u cant use guns! and so my freinds, without further ado, the reason for keeping all those Combat Knives! the
Flickerman (as in flick-o-the-wrist), Super Special Trait, req: 3 EE + 2 Brute, max lvl 3
allows u to throw combat knives, impaling demons on the blades. it is the same as slashing the demon, so it is considered to deal melee damage. you can recover the knife after it is thrown, except there is a 25% chance it will break, which drops 5% each level to a minumum of 15%. note that if you try to use intuition or predetermined locations to hit the enemy from out of your vision, it will ALWAYS miss, ie can only be used on visible enemys. it still only does 1d6 damage, plus any trait based modifiers.
in addition, to go with this, the Knife Belt, which uses Combat Knives as ammo, and can hold 10 at once. it is essential for the operation of the flickerman trait. note that Knives are common, and they break easily if thrown. this is not unfair as in order to get it u need at least lvl 6, it can be used in AoB and in the Unholy Cathedral. it takes time to throw a knife, especially if u have poor aim (no EE :) ).