Weapon durability

Kin · **Joined:** Fri Sep 22, 2006 2:42 pm **Posts:** 944

I can understand steel and iron breaking down quickly, but in my opinion it seems like there are so many other materials that break just as quickly. Ice, flame, gemstone, etc. I'm not saying they should be like adamantite or mithril, but they could stand to be a bit more durable. When you have a gemstone weapon breaking on steel plate mail and your weapon breaking almost completely after 2 fights it's a bit ludicrous. Not only that, those weapons can only be repaired by special items and such for the most part. There are a lot of weapons that are really neat, named weapons that are useless simply because everyone decked out in adamantite will completely wtfpwn your weapon in a few rounds.

Make other types of weaponry more useful than just addy / mithril please. I'd like a bit of variety.

mundufisen · **Posted:** Sun Jun 12, 2011 4:33 pm

Heh, Adamantite and Energy you mean.

mithril breaks very fast as well.

ninja_ardith · **Joined:** Wed Sep 24, 2008 12:21 pm **Posts:** 4452

Huh, I wonder if there's a reason that older civilisations didn't make weapons and armor out of such materials. I'm sure there's a really simple explanation for this, but it's just not coming to me. Someone needs to help me out with this one.

MsPooperTrooper · **Posted:** Sun Jun 12, 2011 8:12 pm

Hm.. Maybe it's because they were too gaudy. Is that right? I mean, it can't be because they suck. It's not like ice melts super easy or gemstone chips like a shale rock against anything harder than it.. Oh, wait.

grep · **Joined:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:50 pm **Posts:** 5522

Because mithril isn't real, and diamond is the hardest metal known to man.

Muktar · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2011 12:19 am

grep wrote:

Because mithril isn't real, and diamond is the hardest metal known to man.

Dexity · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2011 12:21 pm

I would agree that making some materials a little more useful would be nice, could either make them a bit harder or have specialized "blacksmiths" that can repair things like ice flame gemstone etc.

MsPooperTrooper · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2011 2:15 pm

There already is one that repairs ice and gemstone. It'd be nice to see some sort of tailor that repairs mage-type garb such as ink, energy, flame, and water, but I doubt that would happen. As far as durability though.. I honestly don't think there's a problem.

grep · **Joined:** Fri Apr 17, 2009 9:50 pm **Posts:** 5522

Clerics could just get the "make whole" spell and it could perhaps repair progressively more esoteric materials with increases in caster level.

Edoras · **Posted:** Mon Jun 13, 2011 7:29 pm

Energy and water don't get damaged.

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