Caster sword?

Can anyone tell me the mods needed for a Caster Sword?

People in-game are being rude and telling me to check wiki, but theres no page for it. Someone please?

The mods are normally a sword with +5 energy and either +20% enchants (which is dumb) or hp+30

errr...why is 20% enchants dumb?

wouldn't be a caster sword with out the 20% ench

he's prob. only thought about a caster sword for say an ele using an attunement as their only enchantment, in which case the +30 health is better.

Because if you're casting enchantments you shouldn't be in your shield set anyways. 40 HCT/20 HRT/20 enchant staff is a good way to go for enchants in most cases.

In fact you shouldn't be casting much at all out of a defensive set so +20 enchants is pretty useless. +60hp +18al is much better.

A caster sword should only be used when casting mods are less important than survival. i.e. fortitude.

Use a staff for enchant casting.

usually a sword w. +5 energy, 30 health, always used as part of a "defensive" weapon set, for the shield you would have +30 health, +10 armor vs X damage type.

Do caster heroes use melee weapons effectively? I don't have access to GW right now, else I'd check myself. I am curious to know whether, for example, a sword+shield Vekk would be unnecessarily running into combat all the time.

This is for the middle AI option, btw. Setting him to "avoid" wouldn't be much help.

If a hero has a weapon and is not set on Passive(last option) he will use that weapon to attack. If you give a melee weapon to a caster he will charge into melee range to use it.

I only use caster martial weapons on my monks, in which avoid is the BEST option. Other casters, if given a martial caster weapon, should go to Guard+a Spear *for the distance*.

I'd call a 'caster' mod +5 energy, 20% enchant.
not saying that its a good set, just thats what is usually meant.

This is similar to the 'perfect' 20/20, 15^50, 30hp set.



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I think question has been answered plenty of times. I give a +1.

Most people use the "standard" caster sword because they are either too lazy to switch weapons for specific casts, or don't care about optimisation, or both.

My understanding of the caster sword, as opposed to the defensive set, was that certain spells (in pve) were determined by the type of weapon you are carrying. Therefore by carrying a sword the enemy will preferentially cast empathy (rather than backfire) on you. This is just what I've been told by people calling me a "noob" for carrying and changing several caster sets in various dungeons - despite the fact I kept well out of casting range but that's another matter.

If you are too lazy to switch between mobs, which many players are, and you are a monk the 20% enchant is usually a good thing. I've never seen the point of the 20% enchant on an ele carrying only attunements

My ele always carries a sword. Looks way better than any wand.

First of the caster martial weapons was the Totem Axe, which is +5 energy and +20% enchant. Like GaaaaaH said, it may not be all that good, but thats the first thing that comes to mind for caster moded martial weapons.

You should see a Ritualist cast with a sword!

To me, a 'caster sword' is any inscribable one-hand weapon with a requirement over 9 (and sometimes even that) ... it's the user's responsibility to mod it as s/he sees fit. There are several completely valid options:

• +5e for most casters
• 10% HSR for elementalists who don't need that extra energy
• +15% dmg/-5e if it's a part of a negative energy set (and there are more uses for that than just shielding from e-denial)

• +30HP if it's a part of a shield set
• +20% enchant for several farming builds that won't work without (and many of them also require a shield with a specific +10AL inscription so a staff is out of question)

My PvE ele has four different 'caster swords' (actually, just one sword and three spears) for specific purposes. Calling some option 'dumb' just because the person in question doesn't him/herself do things that require the particular option is pretty narrow-minded, now isn't it?