magic weapons?

[grayFalcon]

Hello again!

I can remember there being a lot of magic weapons, allowing people to do >200 damage per hit. Now I found a balanced short sword (afair, that used to be quite good), but it doesn't do any more damage than a normal short sword. Have magic attributes on weapons been made useless? Still, I do see people doing 200, even 300+ damage with swords. Is this all achieved by high sword skill/strength? Or have I missed some now development in the magic weapons department (e.g. those "ways", allowing "channeling energy" into weapons, oneself or enemies, which are unfortunately not explained in the guide)?

Thanks a lot in advance!

[Bereror]

We did have a lot of weapons with a very high damage value, but they were removed. It made the game unbalanced, because characters without any skills were able to do high damage. Now the focus is more on skills and stats, so a well trained character has an advantage over less trained characters.

[grayFalcon]

So that means that any magic weapons I find are basically as good as the normal weapons that I could get from any shop (except the fact that they sound cool), right?

[Bereror]

Wrong, they still have different damage values up to 10 (I guess), but no more slash 300+ weapons. And I don't think you will find any slash 10 weapons in NPC shops.

[Imshi]

There are indeed a number of very "magical" weapons in-world. Their value and usefulness is based on the ability to enhance stats. Always check a weapon with a wonderful name, often they need a high stat in one area to boost another. Some require a high stat to wield yet will not enhance another. Experiment and have fun.

[Exor]

Ahh... Magical weopons, like the class of Crystalweave that was wrought by the Kran in olden days, may be found in one's adventures, yes... but as these are difficult to find they are also much more powerful...