What Is The Point Of Inscriptions?

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?

It can enhance the weapon's abilities among other things - one makes enchantments last x% longer, or maybe an armor bonus.

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.).

How do you know what inscription does what?

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.

So strength & honor is basically just a 15^50 upgrade? Why not just put the 15^50 upgrade on instead of the inscription?

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.

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%

The inscription is the upgrade. An inscription is the ONLY kind of upgrade for this.

Oh I get it now, thanks a lot guys, really appreciate it

There is no enchanting inscription.

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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".

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.

Oh ok, thanks for clearing that up

Also, before there were inscriptions, people would refer to a weapon as having 15^50 and the term sort of stuck.

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.

D'oh! - I hadn't had my coffee yet.