The masterarmour wouldn't vanish but numbers would adjust to fit the new rules.

Your welcome to suggest other caps!

I'm just going to state this bluntly: That does not seem like much of a fix. We have collectively asked you to make it so that forging is not incredibly random, and you've fired back with,

To be perfectly honest I do not understand why warriors need to have a stat variety in individual weapon types, period. I would be perfectly content to see all Katanas given the exact same stats, and all klangaxes, and hammers, and so forth. Having multiple types of weapons gives you a variety. I have always thought it absurd that warriors (and now monks to a lesser degree) are the only class in the game that doesn't have a fixed stat for their damage output (that I know of. Am I wrong?). This would put warriors on a level playing field with eachother, and make combat less about, "My weapon is more legendary than your weapon."

As per miss rate: there are already an insane amount of things that stop you from hitting with a weapon. Magical shields, rebounding, stances, parry, trueshield, evasion and natural miss rates already apply to warriors. Noone else has this staggering amount of things working against them, please do not add to it. Besides, a transcendent knight should not be flailing around blindly with his weapon.

Moving on, please do not take away what little business warriors get already by handing the skill set over to monks. Please, make monks -less- like warriors, not more.

Anyway, I don't think people really want weapons to all have exactly the same numbers. Or maybe people do?

Define a 'bashing weapon'?

Regarding master armour, if we make the change, then we would have to change how it is for the armour that exists. I'm not sure how we could in good conscience do otherwise and let others have armour better than everyone else's just because they lucked into getting forging earlier. Sorry!

The proposal would allow warriors to have any numbers they want (at a cost) so it's really not random. Anyway, I don't think people really want weapons to all have exactly the same numbers. Or maybe people do? Would make our life easier!

So I'm hearing, all things being equal, keep the caps at 280.

A significant amount of posts have said "Why can't you just give our offense the same stats like the other classes have" haven't they?

I'd also just like to add my voice that making precision worth something again would be a very, very good thing for warrior combat if you're going to keep stat ranges the way they are. Right now it seems essentially worthless.

The caps are not 280.

The caps are: 180 damage, 235 precision, 280 speed.

Caps notwithstanding, if the weapon caps and formulas do end up changing, instead of a messy refund situation, how about you do a one time stat-adjustment for people who have weapons already-runed under old stat caps/assumptions/values. It might take about 10 minutes per player but if they all submit a message it shouldn't take too long at all.

It seems to me that one of the interesting things about warriors is allowing them the option to have different types of weapons so they can choose different strategies. I don't know why you'd want to lose that.

Because currently only one strategy works. Every warrior fights with Rapiers/Hammers/Katanas/Klangaxes and nothing else, they all go for 280 speed and then depending on if they've got runes they go for high prec or high damage. It would be much better in my opinion to make Scimitars and Broadswords worth using again and just give base stats to them.