I don't know if the bug is part of the HURL mechanics or part of the recently added weapon skills: OVERPOWER in this particular case.

My character is oddly built. He HURLs THW for his main fighting style.

Skills:
(at level 14), your current skill bonuses and ranks (including all modifiers) are:
Skill Name | Current Current
| Bonus Ranks
Armor Use..........................| 120 30
Shield Use.........................| 120 30
Combat Maneuvers...................| 120 30
Two-Handed Weapons.................| 70 15
Thrown Weapons.....................| 120 30
Brawling...........................| 120 30
Multi Opponent Combat..............| 25 5
Physical Fitness...................| 120 30
Dodging............................| 70 15
Harness Power......................| 25 5
Perception.........................| 120 30
Climbing...........................| 54 11
First Aid..........................| 99 23

He doesn't swing THW, but does train .5x in them so he gets some DS benefit while holding it in his hands.

I was out hunting him for the first time since weapon skill additions were added to the game and I came across a bug that caused him to lose a weapon that I would like to have replaced because it's a pain in the ass to craft them at the forge.

My warrior walks around normally with his greatshield out and weapon hand empty. He starts off using SHIELD BASH in an attempt to at least stun, but hopefully knock his target prone. Then he wears the shield, grabs his THW and HURLs it at the target.

When he hurled the weapon at the troll, the troll evaded and then it prompted the info about using OVERPOWER

R>get my warsword

You remove an elegant rhimar warsword from in your burgundy quiver.

>wear my hoarbeam greatshield

You sling a hoarbeam greatshield over your shoulder.

>grip two

>stance offensive

You grip the rhimar warsword with both hands.

>hurl

You are now in an offensive stance.

>

With a quick flick of your wrist, you deftly send an elegant rhimar warsword into flight.

You throw an elegant rhimar warsword at a mongrel troll!

The mongrel troll stumbles dazedly, somehow managing to evade the missile!

You could use this opportunity to Overpower!

The rhimar warsword flies past a mongrel troll, disappearing into the local environs.

Roundtime: 5 sec.

R>

A greater orc's air of vulnerability dissipates.

R>

[script aborted]

A mongrel troll just arrived!

>

A greater orc swings a war mattock at you!

AS: +126 vs DS: +182 with AvD: +42 + d100 roll: +31 = +17

A clean miss.

>.hurlbash

[Script hurlbash is running, Esc to cancel, Shift-Esc to pause]

>glance

You glance down at your empty hands.

>remove my hoarbeam greatshield

You sling a hoarbeam greatshield off from over your shoulder.

>stance offensive

>shield bash

You are now in an offensive stance.

>

A mongrel troll is lying down -- attempting to shield bash him would be a rather awkward proposition.

>stance d

You are now in a defensive stance.

>tar tro

You are now targeting a mongrel troll.

>.hurlbash

[script aborted]

[Script hurlbash is running, Esc to cancel, Shift-Esc to pause]

>glance

You glance down to see nothing in your right hand and a hoarbeam greatshield in your left hand.

>stance offensive

A mongrel troll snarls menacingly as she advances!

A mongrel troll thrusts with a spear at you!

You evade the attack by a hair!

>shield bash

You are now in an offensive stance.

>

You are beginning to feel a little fatigued.

You lunge forward at a mongrel troll with your hoarbeam greatshield and attempt a shield bash!

[SMR result: 142 (Open d100: 65)]

Your size slightly hinders your attack!

You lash out with a solid shield bash!

... 10 points of damage!

Light strike to abdomen.

... 3 points of damage!

Stomach strike knocks the mongrel troll backwards several feet.

Your attack exposes a vulnerability in a mongrel troll's defenses!

Roundtime: 3 sec.

R>tar other tro

You are now targeting a mongrel troll.

R>stance d

You are now in a defensive stance.

>tar tro

You are now targeting a mongrel troll.

>.hurlbash

[script aborted]

[Script hurlbash is running, Esc to cancel, Shift-Esc to pause]

>glance

You glance down to see nothing in your right hand and a hoarbeam greatshield in your left hand.

>stance offensive

>shield bash

You are now in an offensive stance.

>

You lunge forward at a mongrel troll with your hoarbeam greatshield and attempt a shield bash!

[SMR result: 131 (Open d100: 50, Bonus: 4)]

Your size slightly hinders your attack!

You lash out with a half-hearted shield bash!

... 5 points of damage!

Blow connects with abdomen.

... 10 points of damage!

Invisible force gives the mongrel troll a rabbit punch.

It is knocked to the ground!

Your attack exposes a vulnerability in a mongrel troll's defenses!

Roundtime: 3 sec.

R>tar other tro

A greater orc swings a war mattock at you!

AS: +126 vs DS: +201 with AvD: +42 + d100 roll: +64 = +31

A clean miss.

>

You are now targeting a mongrel troll.

>get my warsword

You remove an elegant zorchar warsword from in your burgundy quiver.

>wear my hoarbeam greatshield

You sling a hoarbeam greatshield over your shoulder.

>grip two

>stance offensive

You grip the zorchar warsword with both hands.

>hurl

You are now in an offensive stance.

>

With a quick flick of your wrist, you deftly send an elegant zorchar warsword into flight.

You throw an elegant zorchar warsword at a mongrel troll!

AS: +187 vs DS: -5 with AvD: +38 + d100 roll: +58 = +288

... and hit for 98 points of damage!

Crossing slash to chest catches the mongrel troll's attention!

The mongrel troll whimpers pitifully one last time and dies.

The deep blue glow leaves a mongrel troll.

The zorchar warsword ricochets away from a mongrel troll, landing nearby.

[Use the RECOVER HURL command while in the appropriate room to regain your item.]

Roundtime: 5 sec.

R>tar tro

You are now targeting a mongrel troll.

R>.hurl

[script aborted]

[Script hurl is running, Esc to cancel, Shift-Esc to pause]

A mongrel troll's flesh wounds regenerate slowly.

A mongrel troll's abdomen regenerates and looks much better.

A mongrel troll stands up with a grunt.

R>glance

You glance down at your empty hands.

R>get my warsword

You remove an elegant drakar warsword from in your burgundy quiver.

>grip two

You are already gripping the drakar warsword with both hands.

>stance offensive

>hurl

[script done]

You are now in an offensive stance.

>

With a quick flick of your wrist, you deftly send an elegant drakar warsword into flight.

You throw an elegant drakar warsword at a mongrel troll!

AS: +187 vs DS: +72 with AvD: +38 + d100 roll: +64 = +217

... and hit for 71 points of damage!

Whoosh! Several ribs driven into lungs.

The mongrel troll is stunned!

The drakar warsword flips over, landing behind a mongrel troll.

[Use the RECOVER HURL command while in the appropriate room to regain your item.]

Roundtime: 5 sec.

R>

A forest troll just arrived!

R>.hurl

[Script hurl is running, Esc to cancel, Shift-Esc to pause]

>glance

You glance down at your empty hands.

>get my warsword

You remove an elegant gornar warsword from in your burgundy quiver.

>grip two

You are already gripping the gornar warsword with both hands.

>stance offensive

>hurl

[script done]

You are now in an offensive stance.

>

With a quick flick of your wrist, you deftly send an elegant gornar warsword into flight.

You throw an elegant gornar warsword at a mongrel troll!

AS: +187 vs DS: +47 with AvD: +38 + d100 roll: +45 = +223

... and hit for 73 points of damage!

Gruesome slash to the mongrel troll's throat!

That stings... for about a second.

The mongrel troll falls to the ground with a thud.

The deep blue glow leaves a mongrel troll.

The gornar warsword ricochets away from a mongrel troll, landing nearby.

[Use the RECOVER HURL command while in the appropriate room to regain your item.]

Roundtime: 5 sec.

R>

A forest troll just arrived!

R>

A greater orc swings a war mattock at you!

You dodge just in the nick of time!

R>

>.recover_hurl

[Script recover_hurl is running, Esc to cancel, Shift-Esc to pause]

>stance defensive

>remove my greatshield

You are now in a defensive stance.

>

You sling a hoarbeam greatshield off from over your shoulder.

>recover hurl

You spy an elegant drakar warsword and recover it.

>sheath

You put an elegant drakar warsword in your burgundy quiver.

>recover hurl

You spy an elegant zorchar warsword and recover it.

>sheath

You put an elegant zorchar warsword in your burgundy quiver.

>recover hurl

>

You spy an elegant gornar warsword and recover it.

>sheath

You put an elegant gornar warsword in your burgundy quiver.

>recover hurl

You find nothing recoverable.

>recover list

You attempt to recall any items that you might recover...

You cannot recall any items that you might recover.

For some reason the game has lost my elegant rhimar warsword. It is not on my recoverable list of items. I didn't move rooms, the weapon just vanished due to the OVERPOWER option that came up when the troll evaded my HURL attempt with it.

I spent hours in the forge crafting these 4 blades (this was before the RT reduction to forging was put in place). I was hoping to get some perfects out of it, but I only ended up with elegant version of the rhimar, zorchar, gornar and drakar warswords.

I'd like to have this weapon replaced and I want to make sure you guys can look into the bug that caused my weapon to vanish due to the new weapon skills that can trigger opportunities for use of OVERPOWER (and the bug may apply to other new weapon skills too)

>Usually, when a projectile disappears into the environs, you have to search for it. I agree that recover hurl should probably still track it, and return it, somehow. But if you haven't left the room yet, try a search.

I forgot about having to search due to HURL supposedly being linked to the RECOVER verb. I guess this odd issue slipped past then when updating code.

The GMs got it sorted and found the weapon hiding, so that's good. Saves me time and possibly lots of rhimar slabs for trying to create a new blade of elegant or maybe prefect (if I get lucky) quality.

Hopefully they'll get it sorted and squash this little bug.

I'm pretty sure I still have the glyphs for warswords in my locker and I'm in the forge a lot anyway. If you send a message to my play.net I'll hold onto any rhimar I find next DR and craft it into however many warswords I can manage before the glyphs crumble. Not gonna just give away perfects, but you can have as many of the ones below that quality as you want.

Starchitin, the OG

A severed gnomish hand crawls in on its fingertips and makes a rude gesture before quickly decaying and rotting into dust. A gust of wind quickly scatters the dust.

That does definitely seem like a bug.

As for the comments about hurling needing an update, that's perhaps true, but consider that while it's a difficult, expensive path, it has really great rewards in its synergy with another fighting style. Yes I pay extra to throw an OHE around by having to train in two styles, and yes I pay extra in that hurling has a hybrid bonus cost that includes twice as many skills and stats in the equation, but I get some pretty big bonuses in return. I can swing that weapon or throw it with good results in either case. That's worth paying for, and should not come cheaply. I appreciate the arduous nature of the path and the rewards are pretty solidly commensurate.

Kerl