Right now the way I understand it almost every weapon is the same. A blank 2h club might have a bit more than a blank knife of the same mineral but once they are chanted it makes no difference at all.
Should being hit with a flaming sword be the same as being hit by a flaming knife? I don't think so, I think the flaming sword would hurt quite a bit more as there is more flame. In that sense I think Harold has a point with the size of a weapon mattering.
I think it would be interesting actually it weapon size and starting crits (including minerals) did make a significant difference in how well the weapon works.
Maybe the mineral can amplify any chants. i.e. a ray weapon already has singing on it, so when you cast a banshee on it you get an extra 20% (just tossing a number out there). Likewise a knife with cutting rune would get an extra 20% cutting WC from nicca bonnes/bleeding blade.
The type of weapon could also affect the liklihood to hit (say +5% for a knife, but -15% for a 2h polearm) and also give different parry bonuses and penalties as well.
This can get very complicated or be very simple.
A much more extreme solution would be to add another level of weapon above unsurpassed. Perhaps it would take much more ingots and time (say 10 ingots and 5 hours to forge with a chance of destroying the ingots) and that type of weapon would fully utilize the mineral type by giving a weak TW to the type of crit of the mineral and -TW to all other types. This could also start with 50% wield (again just numbers from my ass) instead of 0% for a blank weapon.
Just to add some more variety. Or we could have difficult quests to obtain special materials that would allow for this special forging.
Edit: Perhaps solve a puzzle or defeat some guardian in a multi-person quest like we discussed in another thread to obtain some special rock that hardens the minerals extra hard. I'd propose a limit to how often a particular individual could get of this (so that people don't have storehouses of it) and perhaps even make it require a special location to create the blank or forge it.
Edited by Charon (02/01/08 12:53 PM)
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If you say plz because it is shorter than please, then I will say no because it is shorter then yes.
