What's so great about Titan Hammers

[Thorgal]

I'm fairly new to the shard, been here for 3 months now and i keep earing people crave titan hammers and i dont get why everyone is bending over backward for them! At 100 blacksmithing you can make better hammers then that so why is it so special? Did they change the stats compared to OSI shards?

Plz enlighten me!

[Steve]

its special becuase it has the highest possable strength stat of all weapons available...this makes it particulalry tasty to remove the artifact tag level and relayer, although SoT has more str, it lacks the ability to be leveled and add all those extra stats.

[anarchy]

i believe the stats are the same but when you level a weapon with the artie tag removed you accumulate 500 points to distribute to different abilities. crafted items only get 300 points total to be distributed to different abilities.

for example hit lightning costs 4 points per 1% hit chance. that means for every level an artie with it's tag is removed it will increase (if you want this) by 1% (5 points per level). Crafted because it only gets 3 points will have to wait every 2 levels to increase the 1% (yeah i know after 3 levels it can get 2% that level.)

[Highroller]

Ok I get that people want them because they can level them and they have +15 to strength built in. And crafting them wouldn't be as viable because they would get only 300 points from leveling rather than 500. That being said, are they a doom artie in that adding qualities to them cost more points? IF that is true then if you could craft them and they didn't cost more points per item they would work as well or better crafted...

I mean most doom artifacts you can level for 500 points but with everything costing twice as much in effect you only get 250 points worth.

I can see it being a long term goal but how LONG will it take you to level multiple hammers even if they were EASY to get? Then 500ED each to relayer them? That has got to get painful...

[Thorgal]

So with all that being said, if im able to craft a weapon with high stats like hit lightning already at say 40 something and other stats... im better off using crafted weapons since the titan hammer has no mana leach or hit lightning i would have to start from scratch to have a high hit of any kind, but not with a crafted weapon. So basicaly in the end im better off with crafted, less points will be needed to get to stat cap.

Am i understanding it right?

Can you relayer a crafted weapon?

[Nelapsi]

So with all that being said, if im able to craft a weapon with high stats like hit lightning already at say 40 something and other stats... im better off using crafted weapons since the titan hammer has no mana leach or hit lightning i would have to start from scratch to have a high hit of any kind, but not with a crafted weapon. So basicaly in the end im better off with crafted, less points will be needed to get to stat cap.

Am i understanding it right?

Can you relayer a crafted weapon?

Yes you can relayer crafted weapons and based on what I read.. you are not understanding what is special about the weapon. No other weapon gives +15 to str, period. The closest with a crafted weapon you can get is 8, this all adds up after several relayers.

[anarchy]

removing artie tag is only 200 EDs (same price for a 10 mil bio) = (2 month +- a week). the hard part is getting enough cash to buy 500 eds to re layer it, which might take about 5 months to get enough gold to re layer. work in progress...some goal to try to achieve.

or you can cheat (if you can, and only if you can) by donating for the EDs.

[Steve]

so it took 5 posts to repeat what i already said in 3 lines. dont people read anymore?

[Melkor]

Aside from the big STR that has already been mentioned.

Its got the 100% hit area energy, combine that with whirlwind attack is nice. I added hit stamina and hit HP, use that with the whirlwind and it really keeps you alive and swinging. Throw a healing macro on at the same time, even better. All that plus the fact the spawn time is slow and that its a status symbol = a pricey in demand weapon.

Also I guess, its a nice challenge. Obtain the weapon, remove the arti tag, add SC and Self Repair deeds, then level it to 100.