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The Equalizer, also known as the Sword of Neutrality, is a Longsword that strikes as a +3 weapon. Depending on the enemy alignment, it does extra damage and has a higher chance of hitting. The alignment bonuses are the following:

  • True neutral: +0 to THAC0 and +0 to damage
  • Chaotic & lawful neutral: +1 to hit and +2 to damage.
  • Neutral good & evil: +2 to hit and +4 to damage
  • Other four alignments: +3 to hit and +6 damage.

Also, wielding this longsword grants the wielder immunity from charm and confusion. This weapon can be wielded by characters of all alignments with a strength of 6 or higher; however, it cannot be wielded by clerics, druids, or mages. The Equalizer has a weight of 3 lbs and a speed factor of 3. This item appears in Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn and Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition.

The Equalizer is quite weak against opponents who are of some kind of neutral alignment (and especially awful against True Neutral opponents, against whom it is essentially a normal longsword), but the majority of opponents that you fight in the game are lawful evil or chaotic evil.

Location[]

It can be obtained if all three pieces of this weapon are brought to Cromwell in Athkatla Dock District. He will unite all pieces for 7500 gold. The three pieces are:

This means that the weapon can be obtained in chapter 6 at the earliest.

Description[]

Such is the age of this sword that its true origin has been lost to time, but markings hint that it was possibly forged in the service of Helm. Also called the "Sword of Neutrality", it seems designed to seek and terminate extremes, to shift the universe closer to harmonious equilibrium. The further the behavior of a target from true balance, the more potent the damage they suffer.

Bugs[]

  • Shadows of Amn LOADCNTR00004 Icon SoAShadows of Amn (2000)
    Content from the original Baldur's Gate II campaign Shadows of Amn
    In the original Shadows of Amn, the Equalizer's bonuses are bugged in a way that the improved damage and THAC0 bonuses also apply to any other weapon wielded simultaneously. This was changed in the Baldur's Gate II: Enhanced Edition, so that only the bonus THAC0 gets applied to attacks with the other weapon, not the damage.
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