Serpent's Flight

Introduced:  Throne of Destiny Related Quests:  Rares Updated:  Shedding Skin, Master of Arms Rare #280

Serpent's Flight Value: 50,000 800 Burden Units While their neighbors to the north revile serpents as evil creatures, the Sho look upon the snake as an embodiment of wisdom and learning. Sho scholars have used the serpent's act of shedding its old skin as a metaphor for eternal renewal. The great Sho scholar, Judge Fang, decided after many years of service as a magistrate to change his career. Instead of rendering judgment upon criminals brought before him, he would take up a bow and go out and find the criminals himself. He took the serpent as his symbol and set about to craft a bow that would serve as a marker of his new life. Judge Fang spent years perfecting his bowcraft, and applied his extensive magical learning to his work. After ten years in pursuit of perfection, on the first day of spring, the Judge finally completed his masterwork bow, which he named Serpent's Flight. He immediately took it outside to test it. He nocked an arrow, let fly, and watched in contentment as the arrow flew straight and true, and knocked a plum off a tree two hundred paces away. When the plum hit the ground, the Judge closed his eyes and quietly died. Special Properties: Slash Rending, Crushing Blow Skill: Missile Weapons (Bow) Damage Bonus: 0 Elemental Damage Bonus: 16, Slashing Damage Modifier: +170% Speed: Average (40) Range: 80 yds Uses arrows as ammunition. Bonus to Melee Defense: +18% Casts the following spells: Epic Stamina Gain, Epic Missile Weapon Aptitude, Incantation of Missile Weapon Mastery Self, Aura of Incantation of Blood Drinker, Aura of Incantation of Defender, Incantation of Magic Resistance Self, Epic Blood Thirst, Epic Coordination Spellcraft: 400 Mana: 3200 Mana Cost: 1 point per 20 seconds.

Serpent's Flight

Notes

• The weapon now levels when you gain experience fighting with it and gives bonus spells the higher the level.

Update History

Shedding Skin

• Now part of the Heroic Destroyer Set.
• Damage modifier reduced from +200% to +170%.
• Damage bonus changed from 29 to 0.
• Elemental Damage Bonus changed from 10, Piercing to 16, Slashing.
• Melee modifier increased from 15% to 18%.
• Armor Rending changed to Slash Rending.
• Dropped on Death property removed.
• Value increased from 12,500 to 50,000.
• Spells updated from:
  • Major Stamina Gain
  • Major Bow Aptitude
  • Major Coordination
  • Strathelar's Blessing
  • Aura of Resistance
  • Infected Caress
  • Cragstone's Will

Master of Arms

• Skill changed from Bow to Missile Weapons and spells adjusted accordingly.