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Just to touch on the weapons a bit. The idea was not to make crafted weapons insta kill people but to give each their own purposes. For instance the HF and SoV, which will be craftable soon, aren't much more than a vanq weapon. However, they will do bonus damage to their opposing counterparts. If you have a HF and you are attacking someone with negative karma, it will do bonus damage and visa versa for the SoV. My reasoning behind this is because chaos and order guilds are always the biggest and having weapons that can take each side down quicker takes those mass fights beyond vent/ts and someone just shouting a name of who to fs first. Otherwise these weapons are pretty normal though. The other custom weapons from IN1 all have special purposes, for instance the dragon slayer sword, it actually is made to slay dragons now. Diamond katanas do bonuses to humanoid creatures, goblin clooba does bonus damage vs orcs and goblins, dwarven weapons do bonus against terathan and ophidians, etc.

This was done to keep them in game with some purpose without players running around with overpowered weapons. Don't misunderstand though, they are strong weapons and if you think you can take a HH blow to the face half naked, you are most definitely wrong.

Also, the insta bow shooting here doesn't happen.

Mana regen rates are almost identical... though I dare say they are a fraction faster here passively but I can't be sure.

Oh and I had a FAQ going, though sloppily formatted, in my 26 page post that I ended up removing since Taran beat me to responding.