Concept Inscription...see inside

Damage +10%...+15% while under the effects of a weapon spell.

I use weapon spells in a number of different classes and so it would be helpful to have a mod like this one. I know its kind of obscure but its a good idea in theory. I'd like this better than 15^50 on my Barrager and I'd actually attack in melee with my Rit.

Good idea or bad idea?

need to be 20% at least because most weapon spells have short durations and those that use to have long ones were nerfed *cough ritspike cough cough*

15% makes sense.
20% is only for negative stuff. ie. while Hexed, etc.

Although most weapon spells have short durations they are also fairly cheap and are easy to keep up at all times. Also, for +20% dmg you need a malus. Example, "Vengeance is Mine" has the malus "when below 50% health".

I like it, /signed.
What would the inscription actually be?

"I'm armed!"
or
"My weapon looks like a piece of grey gunk!"?

BUT dont weapon spells disable all weapon mods??

Never heard of that before...

I thought they disabled non-caster weapons' prefix bonus (but not penalty). But maybe that was just item spells.

Maybe "Armed to the teeth"? *lol*

@lyra: You're thinking of item spells. Weapon spells are just like preparations. They give you an effect for x number of seconds but have no other effects or penalties(unless stated in the description of the spell).

Speaking of which, I wouldn't mind a damage bonus for having a preparation. Although, it would probably have to be only 10% to keep it balanced since a lot of Preparations already add damage.

Yeah, and a lot of weapon spells also add damage. I find that it might be "unbalanced." You can remove a stance. You can drop somebody's health below 50%. You can't get rid of weapon spells.

Does seem a little bit unbalanced seeing as weapon spells cannot be removed. As long as you have someone maintaining a weapon spell on you, you have a permanent +15% damage.

Yes but you must either always party with a Rit or have Rit as your primary or secondary. I tried giving my Splinter/Barrage build to Jin and Margrid(when I get Razah I'll try with him) but they barely apply Spinter Weapon to themselves and they never applied it to me.

I'm surprised there's nothing to remove a weapon spell(or a preparation or a shout). But then again there are only 4 stance removal skills(all of which are in melee professions to boot) and stances are usually more of a problem. That's just another imbalance in the game. *shrug*

Most of the weapon spells actually have better skins than most un-spelled weapon skins Scythe, daggers, and hammer being prime examples.

That will help ritualists get groups in PvE, which is a very good thing since Ritualist is not part of the Holy Trinity I generally help low-level ritualists get started when I see one in SJM and have some spare time, but mostly I think it's hard for ritualists to find groups in most areas.