i had heard at a time that sentiant weapons might be possible.

I was just curious how this would work.

I was just thinking about it, and i thought it would be nice if the swords would attack on its own valition, We could pre set the attacks we want it to do, or simple tell it to perform attacks that would focus on doing lots of damage or keep your balance.

this would be very very useful expecially when/if off hand combat comes out to play.

The only other way i could really see them working would to actually float on their own and attack like similiar to familiars, will work on there own.

That could be cool for building up multi penilties using them and familiars against tougher monsters. and over whelming them for a change vs the other way around.

Any word on thoughts on all this?


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They're already supposed to be 100+ circle just to have the random chance to accidentally make them, from what I hear. They won't be common by any means. I also believe that only the person who created will be able to use it. So don't worry that Warrior Mages will be pumping out uber sentient weapons of doom left and right and selling them for 100,000 plat each.

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there is already sentient weapons in the game very few though. Most common form of it is the paladin "Holy Weapon" quest. Its been along time and I forgot all the specifics the weapon does though, neat stuff. Its more of an intelligent weapon that reacts to its surroundings then a seperate entity.
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It reacts to attack upon a monster not to surroundings. Here is the actual list of both pros/cons it does. Granted, now with Godrich as Paladin dev, maybe this will finially be upgraded and rewritten to actually make it useful.

- Power limit: Every single attack (even if doesn't hit, ie: critter dodges) lowers its power
- Power Reaches 0 Holy Weapon is lost permanently
- Attacking a player shatters weapon (lost permanently)
- Examine weapon to see power it has left (shining, glowing, ect.)
- When attacking a monster it does a fluffy damage attack (sparks differe colors or calls out chadatru/justice)
- Adds extra damage to attacks (not much but something note: RW adds more damage then a HW does)
- Does not require a bless to hit undead
- Can not be touched by another player, or else they get a 30 second stun\
- Only 3 places that can recharge it
- Can only have one Holy weapon
- Once choosen you can not change your Holy Weapon

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I don't think it'd be a good idea to make sentient weapons enchantments though. Invoking a sword and having an explosion of fire pulse outwards from you, sure. But sentient weapons, naa. I'd rather see those as more rare unique items since they in most cases don't serve a great purpose.

All enchantments have uses and will eventually run out of power not neccessarily destroying the enchantment, but thats something to keep in mind
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Valdrik mentioned perma-enchants for the very high and very skilled WM's....So in this aspect enchanted weapons will far outdo the 'sentient' type weapons on many levels. You can have more then one and can replace them easier. You can also have your choose between 'passive' enchants or 'active' enchants. Difference is a passive will automatically do the thing without you needing to invoke it or anything(barb friendly), where as the active will requrie you to do something particular and in a magical sense to active it(not barb friendly).

Hopefully they could spell.

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Once we finish up the spell review (nearly there), there'll be a round of bug fixing just to clear that up (get some things fixed before we start on something new), then comes weapon enchanting and familiars (probably concurrently, so Valdrik doesn't get burned out working on one thing).

-Chakram

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