Favoured weapons

[MrCarb]

Just a couple of questions about favoured weapon bonuses:

When do they kick in?

Do they scale with levels? (and is the bonus in the help files applicable to level 50?)

Its just that I have a warrior in the 20s and don't get any hit/dam bonus with my favoured weapon (unless the bonus is invisible). Is this right?

[trance_monkey]

The bonuses do scale to level, so you won't see the full bonus until 50.



They also do not stack with the weapons own stats. If you get +0/+5 for a favored weapon and it already gives +4/+5, you won't see any increase at all. And, if you're still only level 20, your bonus may only be +0/+1 or +2. Try finding a completely "blank" weapon of your type and try. Like a dark horseman's longsword or something else with no +anything.

[Burzuk]

Favoured weapon bonuses also scale with lore, so you won't be seeing any bonuses at all until you've gotten lore at level 21. If you're playing a warrior, you should definitely practice your lore up to 75%, then make a habit out of sacrificing everything on the ground that isn't nailed down so that you can keep raising your lore. It's slow, but it's also a much easier method than using the loring skill on items manually. Having a having high lore will be worth a few points of favoured weapon bonuses down the line. I've already seen a level 20-something half-elven warrior with lore in the 80%'s. Be sure to sacrifice all the items left behind by mobs as you level in places like Emerald Forest, Solace, etc, as well as anything you encounter that's been left behind by other people. It's free gold and, more importantly, potential extra hit/dam.

[MrCarb]

Thanks. I had no idea it was connected to lore, and no idea that lore could be increased by sacrificing things. Anyway, it seems that favoured weapons isn't the big deal i'd thought it was, since it'll normaly be cancelled by bonuses inherent in the weapon.

Thanks again for all the information.

[crazyhorse]

*blink*

If you are a slith, Onyx lance is like...badass.

Double gripped, its ave 25 +7 +4 double enhanced damage and overhead...

Sac stuff you idiot. Weapons can get CRAZY.

[MrCarb]

Yea, well that's great, but you'd achieve the same sort of thing pretty quickly so long as you can find an invoker, and most of those really great weapons come with decent bonuses anyway. Still handy to have a favoured weapon of couirse...particularly for half-elves. But you can imagine how buff I THOUGHT it was going to be when i thought it stacked with enchantment.

[Erlwith]

If you sacrifice something for 0 gold does it still have a chance to raise lore?

[Jamus]

"Lore can be improved by sacrificing items, especially more powerful items that are rare or unique."

I would say that it really has no effect.

[Davairus]

[Devin_Smoth]