Well atleast something seems wrong with sblades if spider sabre is at the
moment the best ya wanna pay for that 30k max.. and hit like hell compared to
those other more expensive sblades...

might be solution to make those +dam sblades to be more effective...?.. (most
more valuable sblades got +dam)
dunno.... just a though... would love to use sblades!

It hits less hard than at least two sblades, but not by much. In general,
itemization here is relatively weak, you can get something \'almost as good\'
for 1/100 or less of the price of the \'best\' item.

Namely, X has maybe +3-4 damage per hit average difference(*), Y possibly
something along those lines as well, depending on your +str cap due to X not
having +dam and Y having it..

(*) Scaled for weapon handling, with normalized weapon hits, i.e.
pre-speed-tune. The new messages just confuse people about how hard weapons
_do_ hit.

-Daerid

P.S. If we really want to roleplay, we can go into details of damage formulas
here too! Always had keen interest in them, and have ton of statistics to back
up my numbers! (I think Dragoness was along the lines of \'get a life\' when I
pasted tiger guild formulas on the guild channel at one point..)

P.S.S. Who cares. With few megs of cash you can outfit almost anything except
def with \'almost max\' items for most slots, and it\'s been like that for
years. It\'s not the items, but how you use them!