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Originally Posted by Mardagg
Talking about swords:
Anyone else also thinks its unthematic that a big and heavy 2-handed weapon like e.g. the Wraith Sword does less damage than many single handed weapons?
Generally i think the magic items could still use quite some balancing work in CBM.
Just to name a few:
- Fire Brand and to a lesser extend Frost Brand are overpowered for the cheap prize imo.
-Hell Sword and Wraith Sword are extremely underpowered on the other hand,they have to offer much more bang for the buck in order to compete with single handed weapon+shield.
We got a 25 Death gem/15 slaves + 10 fire gems weapon here,with just average stats,below average and not even AP damage,nerfed life drain,using two hand slots.Thats just plain terrible.
(Also i would like to see the Shadow brand to be on par with the other two (nerfed) brands,AN damage would be thematic here imo)
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I don't think the hell sword is actually that bad. If its price was reduced you wouldn't want to reduce it more than 1 step, probably. It has a couple extra things on it other than just life drain which should increase its price. The wraith sword I'll agree with, it is way overpriced. At d2 or d3 it would be much better balanced with the brand weapons, and it is after all a cons 6 item.
Frost brand and fire brand could use maybe a one step price increase, but iirc QM tried this before and people complained until it was changed back. As for the shadow brand, again I don't think it is that bad. With fear and/or quickness it is actually much better than a fire or frost brand most of the time imo, at least at killing chaff.
Unfortunately, you can't really alter the stats of weapons with item modding. Basically the only change you could make to improve or weaken any of them would be to change the secondary effects they use. For example if one really wanted to they could double to damage of the shadow brand's aoe and make the fire brand's aoe do one damage. But you cannot alter the actual weapon itself.