I asked many people about which items are strong or often used and which aren't.
Basically, melee special items were rated as being the weakest. The only strong special attack weapon we have are the
godswords so far.
PvP melee items and even Korasi are never used because of their low accuracy or/and low damage.In the last 1-2 years, additional armour got released which added more defensive (and offensive) bonuses while the newly released melee weapons (pvp items and korasi) did not get any kind of boost.
My idea is to add a new item to the game which will be called 'Awakened' Korasi. Mary would need to recolour it a little bit (make it a bit brighter and shinier while adding a touch of blue, red and green).
Why will this new weapon be strong? Because you will need 3 "ingredients" as well as the original korasi sword + 99 smithing to make this new weapon.
The ingredients will be the three crystals - red, ice, and nature (which are a great addition to the game)
.
Once you awaken the sword, it will have increased requirements to wield (80-85 attack, strenght and magic). This sword will fit the role of having a melee weapon that is only used for its special ability (like claws were used before its nerfs).
The new sword will be a 1 handed weapon, will have very high magic accuracy, attack and strength bonus. However the normal max hit will be low (around 55) in the beast gear. The special attack though will be the best special attack emps-world will have so far.
By using
60% of your special attack bar, it will perfom a
guaranteed powerful hit that deals between 75% and 150% magic damage of your current max hit.
Max hit 55: 41-83
Max hit 54: 41-81
Max hit 53: 40-80
Max hit 52: 39-78
Max hit 51: 38-77
Max hit 50: 38-75
As you can see, the max hit of its special attack degrades very fast the lower your actual max hit is.
Additional information:- Fusing 'awakened' korasi makes it untradable (you will actually need 99 smithing to make it).
- 'awakened' korasi will have the highest value making sure it protects over everything (you have to wear and risk the best armour for the high hits anyways).
- 'awakened' korasi will have 1000-1500 charges which degrade each time you use your special ability.
- Upon death (not protecting),running out of charges or destroying it, the sword splits into korasi's sword and 2 out of the 3 crystals you have used to awaken it.
The second part of this thread contains the currently weak melee pvp items vesta's longsword, vesta's spear and statius' warhammer.
I do not recall the current special attacks, but I have heard they are very weak (weak is defined as max hit + accuracy).
There is just 1 small change you have to make to these 3 items:
Vesta's Longsword:- Increase its
accuracy and
power when using the special attack (making it slightly more accurate than a godsword).
Vesta's spear: - Increase its
accuracy when using the special attack (making it slightly more accurate than a godsword).
Statius' Warhammer:- Increase its
accuracy when using the special attack (making it slightly more accurate than a godsword).
- The special attack (50% cost)
lowers the enemy's defence by 20%.