If you're worried about accidentally destroying someone's weapon, you can alway LOOK at the critter before casting it.

Starchitin

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.

Implosion is inherently dangerous and can destroy items. At least...it used to be able to. It's been quite some time since the situation has presented itself. But that's all part of the counter-balance for the destructive awesomeness of implosion. It's assumed when you're sucking large creatures through tiny vacuums that you are unconcerned with whatever loot they may have been hauling. You have to admire such selfless devotion to pure destruction, no?

~ GtG (and her sorcerous friends)

I'm not sure. Maybe register some really cheap weapon, and get a maneuvering creature to disarm you?

Implosion is a really great concept. It is terrible physics, but the effect is spectacular.

- Xorus' player

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>A monastic lich points a skeletal finger at you and exclaims, "Your soul is forfeit!"

>It is though totally level dependent.

Yeah, it can be disappointing during invasions because of that.

>The only problem in some towns you have to streak nekked through the invading creatures to pick up your items.

Not with a rapture cloak! Never Naked (tm) or your silver back.

I know I can always LOOK, and if I'm using it because I'm too lazy to care about loot, I do. However, because it's also very much an "oh, $#!^" spell, I'm wondering if there might not be some mechanics tweak that could take place here similar to what happens with Evil Eye. I don't use EE much myself because of Lylia's current level compared to what she's fighting (98 and counting -- oh, so close!), but after going to Nelemar with Silvean and watching him stare a few things into submission, I noticed they now drop any boxes they were carrying. (I imagine it looks a little like this: http://i.imgur.com/1mQrV.gif.) If we have good enough aim that we can focus a temporary rift in the fabric of reality just near our prey, could it be possible to keep any weapons it held from disappearing into the void too?

I recall having to ask for help to get my vultite broadsword out of the clutches of a krolvin warfarer back in the days when we dropped stuff upon death. Weapon and shield hunts were exciting, and it was rewarding to participate in them as an item rescuer instead of a hapless and weaponless adventurer. I'm emphatically not in favor of candifying the game in general. When dealing with other people's items, though, it may make sense to avoid the headache of replacing something lost to the void. Also, the messaging could be fun if, say, the hand holding that vultite broadsword got severed as the rip in space closed around it. The only thing better than getting back your broadsword is getting it back with your thieving enemy's hand still wrapped around its hilt, surely.

It's great that 720 now has far more utility than it did back in the day when it only existed in its open form, but if this is a simple change -- and I realize it probably isn't -- then that might be something to consider. If I do something in a panic and lose my own item, that's bad; if I lose someone else's item, I'd feel really awful.

<<<Also, the messaging could be fun if, say, the hand holding that vultite broadsword got severed as the rip in space closed around it. The only thing better than getting back your broadsword is getting it back with your thieving enemy's hand still wrapped around its hilt, surely.>>>

That is a pretty freaking awesome idea. :)

~ GtG