Re: Stormbringer is wimpy

["Eric A. Anderson" <eanders+@CMU.EDU>]

huma@netcom.com (Ben Fennema) writes:
> > Mark Wedel <master@rahul.net> writes:
> > >  Howver, with the improve weapon scrolls, it because possible to make
> > > a fairly tame artifact quite nasty (I did this with a darkblad - weigth
> > > less than 1, dam +70, +7 I think, plus it raises most all of my
> > > abilities.)
> > When was this changed?  The improve weapon scrolls were only supposed
> > to apply to normal weapons, letting them apply to magic weapons only
> > increases how much power comes from those scrolls.  (Especially now
> > that you can buy them in stores.)  There's already a balance problem
> > with those scrolls and the taifu's because taifu's improve your ac.

> It hasn't... It's called cancellation... Cancel the magic on the
> Darkblade (Looses all its +'s, and thus no magic value) and you can improve
> weapon it to your hears desire....
Well, then with the cancellation spell it has changed.  When I
originally implemented the code, it wasn't possible to remove the +'s.
I guess I should have put all the other checks for special abilities
in as well.  Ah well, time for a patch.
          -Eric 
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