Weapon Skills Update 2012 - Revision history

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	* [http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?t=53918 Specific Weapon/Skill Changes]		* [http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?t=53918 Specific Weapon/Skill Changes]

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			''See Also: [[Weapon Skills Update 2012/FAQ]]''<br><br>
	'''''The following information is the most recent released by Turbine Developers regarding the major overhaul of Weapon Skills to take place in the February 2012 patch. This information is not set in stone and will likely change in minor ways before final implementation and possibly in significant ways as well. Once implemented, the content of this page will provide a tutorial/summary of the changes.'''''		'''''The following information is the most recent released by Turbine Developers regarding the major overhaul of Weapon Skills to take place in the February 2012 patch. This information is not set in stone and will likely change in minor ways before final implementation and possibly in significant ways as well. Once implemented, the content of this page will provide a tutorial/summary of the changes.'''''


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	* [http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?t=53287 Weapon Revamp 0.3] (Archived)		* [http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?t=53287 Weapon Revamp 0.3] (Archived)
	* [http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?t=53246 Update] (Archived)		* [http://forums.ac.turbine.com/showthread.php?t=53246 Update] (Archived)
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	Wands will appear in loot with attack modifiers on magic skills of up to 15%. This will bring mage loot up to par with weapon loot. We expect that casters will need extra attack bonus to compensate for the formula change so we plan to either modifying current wands to have a 10% attack bonus if that is possible, or making a vendor that can give out free (but temporary) one month casters available with a 10% attack bonus if modifying existing wands ~~can’t~~ be done for technical reasons.		Wands will appear in loot with attack modifiers on magic skills of up to 15%. This will bring mage loot up to par with weapon loot. We expect that casters will need extra attack bonus to compensate for the formula change so we plan to either modifying current wands to have a 10% attack bonus if that is possible, or making a vendor that can give out free (but temporary) one month casters available with a 10% attack bonus if modifying existing wands can't be done for technical reasons.

	Missile Weapons will also appear in loot with attack modifiers on missile skills of up to 15%. This will bring missile weapon loot up to par with melee weapon loot. We expect that missile weapons will need extra attack bonus to compensate for the formula change so we plan to either modifying current missile weapons to have a 10% attack bonus if that is possible, or making a vendor that can give out free (but temporary) one month weapons available with a 10% attack bonus if modifying existing missile weapons ~~can’t~~ be done for technical reasons.		Missile Weapons will also appear in loot with attack modifiers on missile skills of up to 15%. This will bring missile weapon loot up to par with melee weapon loot. We expect that missile weapons will need extra attack bonus to compensate for the formula change so we plan to either modifying current missile weapons to have a 10% attack bonus if that is possible, or making a vendor that can give out free (but temporary) one month weapons available with a 10% attack bonus if modifying existing missile weapons can't be done for technical reasons.


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	Where possible we will try to keep existing weapons competitive within their new weapon category. Existing characters who are more than two weeks old will gain some kind of item that will allow them to move existing slayer, imbues, and other non-tinkering weapon enhancements to new weapons. Our current plan is to give each character the ability to move those enhancements from a current (old) weapon to a new weapon three times.		Where possible we will try to keep existing weapons competitive within their new weapon category. Existing characters who are more than two weeks old will gain some kind of item that will allow them to move existing slayer, imbues, and other non-tinkering weapon enhancements to new weapons. Our current plan is to give each character the ability to move those enhancements from a current (old) weapon to a new weapon three times.

	Tinkering is preventing us from some melee weapon modifications we wanted to do. Tinkers were implemented to mutate weapons directly and only track the total number of tinkers on the weapon. Because of this we have no way of knowing what tinkers have been used on a particular weapon. This means that we ~~can’t~~ move tinkers from weapon to weapon, and we ~~can’t~~ update the statistics of existing loot weapons since it is impossible to know what the baseline for the weapon was before the weapon was affected by tinkers.		Tinkering is preventing us from some melee weapon modifications we wanted to do. Tinkers were implemented to mutate weapons directly and only track the total number of tinkers on the weapon. Because of this we have no way of knowing what tinkers have been used on a particular weapon. This means that we can't move tinkers from weapon to weapon, and we can't update the statistics of existing loot weapons since it is impossible to know what the baseline for the weapon was before the weapon was affected by tinkers.

	Because of this we will not be modifying existing melee weapons at all. Instead we will be balancing new loot weapons where we can to approximate the damage output of the old weapons where possible. If values need to change for balance, then new weapons that drop will be slightly better than current weapons. We expect this will be especially true for the current 4/4 weapons like Staves and Daggers as they are currently well below our expected values for Light Weapons and Finesse Weapons. Loot Spears will also be better than existing Spears. We are still examining the numbers on other weapons to determine how competitive they are within the new categories.		Because of this we will not be modifying existing melee weapons at all. Instead we will be balancing new loot weapons where we can to approximate the damage output of the old weapons where possible. If values need to change for balance, then new weapons that drop will be slightly better than current weapons. We expect this will be especially true for the current 4/4 weapons like Staves and Daggers as they are currently well below our expected values for Light Weapons and Finesse Weapons. Loot Spears will also be better than existing Spears. We are still examining the numbers on other weapons to determine how competitive they are within the new categories.