I would be handy to be able to examine weapons to be able to understand their effectiveness, so we can compare one weapon over another in terms of DPS etc.

There is a mod here that I found from Coldie that has a /dps function- https://forum.wurmonline.com/index.php?/topic/167518-released-coldies-compilations/&utm_source=chatgpt.com

Any custom change that can provide more information about anything in the game would be lovely to see. For example, when you cast Bag of Holding on a Crate, on examining it, it would be lovely to see how much capacity it has been expanded to (not just the level of BoH cast).

Just an example from today, I've got the 45ql Percival's Skinner from the Quest line, and I've got my own 50ql butchering knife, and I have no idea which one is better than the other, other than ql. Weapons and tools make with different metals have different stats like parry rate etc, so would be awesome to be able to examine them to see how they differ.

Agreed that this would be very handy. Combat is very random at the best of times, but anything to help would be good.

i installed the dps mod. i have no idea how it is working :)
Use /DPS ingame (case sensitive)

maybe i will make my own mod in the future.

Thanks, so if you enable with /DPS you now get a report in the Combat window

[13:33:21] DPS=34;you did 9763 damage, which is 11486.0 * 0.85

So now we can compare different weapons's effectiveness, thanks!