Just an idea about different skins of weapons having their very own abilities

flexibility

Ascalonian Squire

Join Date: Dec 2005

Singapore

The Gathering Of Souls o_0

E/W

14 Feb 2006 at 13:36 - 1
I thought it would be cool if different skins of weapons had different bonuses of their own. eg. crystalline(10% ice damage) fellblade(5% faster swing) whatever. what do you guys say?

actionjack

actionjack

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: Oct 2005

Kali

W/E

14 Feb 2006 at 17:54 - 2
cool... i like

dargon

Furnace Stoker

Join Date: May 2005

The Seraphim Knights [TSK]

R/

14 Feb 2006 at 18:58 - 3
depending on the bonuses, someone would eventually decide that item X is the most desirable and then everyone would need item X to compete. Especially if the bonus was swing/attack faster. This would be a bad thing and take away from ANet saying that it's skill not items. Granted there are a couple items in the game now that are more desireable than others for mechanical rather than appearance reasons.

NatalieD

NatalieD

Desert Nomad

Join Date: Aug 2005

14 Feb 2006 at 21:08 - 4
It's bad enough that the different armors have different stats. Tying appearance to function just punishes people for following their tastes and enforces a boring uniformity of appearance. (Just look at all the warriors in gladiator armor.)