[imported_Jiraiya]

While the idea does have promise, there's probably a lot more important stuff to work on first. I'd love to see the less used weapons finally have a use, but it's a lot of time to balance them, and people would have to do a lot of calculations and test runs, and eventually we'd just end up with a new "best" weapon that everyone uses. At least bardiche looks cool. It would be terrible news if the new best turned out to be something like a hammer pick.

Here's an idea that I'm stealing from World of Warcraft. What if you could "disenchant" the magical weapons that are crappy to get materials to make other weapons stronger?

I.E. You can disenchant a vanq weapon to get vanquishing dust that you can apply to a non-magical weapon like a bardiche. You could disenchant like 5-10 crappy vanquishing weapons to get enough magical dust to make one vanq bardiche. Then, you could do the same for tactics, though you might want to make it a max of like +15 tactics so that a +25 vanq bard is still godly.

/shrug

Totally awesome idea. You could take it farther and allow socketing of weapons as well. So like, say you have a black widow, since its special weap, allow different gemstones to give different effects in damage vs mobs. Example, you take a normal gem like, an amethyst. You get 3 people together who have to dump a certain amount of mana into the gem to activate it. Say maybe 3 or 4 hours worth of multiple people dumping mana into it will make it into glowing magical amethyst. You then implant it into a weapon and each gem type adds a different proc. Only usable vs monsters of course.