What Is The Point Of Inscriptions?
Vanchatron
People pay a lot of money for a weapon that has an inscription such as "Strength & Honor" etc but what is the point of them?
Kook~NBK~
It can enhance the weapon's abilities among other things - one makes enchantments last x% longer, or maybe an armor bonus.
Hobbs
Well, they are inherent bonuses to your equipment. "Strength and Honor" for instance gives you 15% more damage as long as your health is above 50%, which is a great advantage especially to the melee classes. Armour inscriptions also give bonuses like decreasing the damage you take from certain sources (physical, elemental etc.).
Vanchatron
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Originally Posted by Kook~NBK~
It can enhance the weapon's abilities among other things - one makes enchantments last x% longer, or maybe an armor bonus.
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Biostem
Are you playing Nightfall? Prior to that, weapons has "built-in inscriptions". So, a weapon that has a "+15% dmg when health > 50%", in Nightfall, is a weapon w/ a Strength and Honor inscription.
It's yet another way to mod your weapon. A nightfall sword, for example, could have a hilt, cross guard, AND inscription.
It's yet another way to mod your weapon. A nightfall sword, for example, could have a hilt, cross guard, AND inscription.
Vanchatron
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Originally Posted by Togira Ikonaka
Well, they are inherent bonuses to your equipment. "Strength and Honor" for instance gives you 15% more damage as long as your health is above 50%, which is a great advantage especially to the melee classes. Armour inscriptions also give bonuses like decreasing the damage you take from certain sources (physical, elemental etc.).
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Shadow Spirit
Inscriptions are a form of weapon modification. Before inscriptions came out weapons often had inherent statistics that you could not change. They could be something like +15% damage while in a stance, or something imperfect like +12% damage vs. Hexed foes.
Now that we have inscriptions and inscribable weapons, we can change the attribute of the weapon. So instead of being dissapointed that the gold sword of leetness that just dropped for you has an attribute of +14^50, you can put a 15^50 Strength and Honor inscription on it.
Now that we have inscriptions and inscribable weapons, we can change the attribute of the weapon. So instead of being dissapointed that the gold sword of leetness that just dropped for you has an attribute of +14^50, you can put a 15^50 Strength and Honor inscription on it.
Wrath Of Dragons
each inscription has the description on it.
for instance, if you find a weapon with a "strength and honor" inscription, it will look like this:
Long Sword, req 9 swordmanship
Inscription
Stregnth and Honor
Damage +15% while health is above 50%
for instance, if you find a weapon with a "strength and honor" inscription, it will look like this:
Long Sword, req 9 swordmanship
Inscription
Stregnth and Honor
Damage +15% while health is above 50%
Shadow Spirit
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Originally Posted by Vanchatron
So strength & honor is basically just a 15^50 upgrade? Why not just put the 15^50 upgrade on instead of the inscription?
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Vanchatron
Oh I get it now, thanks a lot guys, really appreciate it 
Savio
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Originally Posted by Kook~NBK~
one makes enchantments last x% longer
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Originally Posted by Vanchatron
How do you know what inscription does what?
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Vanchatron
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Originally Posted by Shadow Spirit
The inscription is the upgrade. An inscription is the ONLY kind of upgrade for this.
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Shadow Spirit
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Originally Posted by Vanchatron
Aaah, I see now, I thought Inscriptions & 15^50 upgrades were two seperate things, because you always see people selling 15^50 upgrades as opposed to just saying "selling strength & honor inscription".
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Vanchatron
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Originally Posted by Shadow Spirit
That's probably because there are imperfect Strength and Honor inscriptions, such as 13^50 or 14^50. So, if they say 15^50 you know they're selling a perfect inscription.
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Quaker
Also, before there were inscriptions, people would refer to a weapon as having 15^50 and the term sort of stuck.
Dante the Warlord
Yea inscriptions are really great and i don't know why they didn't have them sooner. Now we can actually craft a weapon, only worrying about the skin. And plus we can take them out...etc. Basically works just like a mod, but....itsn't lol.
Kook~NBK~
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Originally Posted by Savio
There is no enchanting inscription.
[wiki]Inscription[/wiki] |