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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Intense_Interest" data-source="post: 4221452" data-attributes="member: 65904">You only have to make the +10 sword of godslaying once.  It'll last the test of time.You'll always have some new lord wanting some +1 swords for his pug army.  The +1 swords also don't fade away, and you could use the surplus of +1 swords (looting a battlefield, say, in which you have more swords than soldiers).  Those swords are the ones you break down, or else you would have +1 swords in every household and you start running on a magic-sword economy.  A surplus of +1 swords (caused by war, death, famine, plague) gets turned into better swords because you have a surplus.And there will be a massive strain on the construction of new +1 swords because of the limited supply of able wizards.  You'll always have a good amount of +1 swords, because the scale of demand versus supply, but those swords have to be made for someone and by someone instead of popping up out of the ground.You'll never have a +5 sword surplus because the demand isn't there in comparison to the limited supply of +1 sword surplus, but those +5 swords don't get commonly broken down, leaving you with a more even spread of magic items instead of vaults full of +1 longswords.EDIT:Also, it should be noted that limited supply =/= rare.Limited supply means that you can't purchase 10,000 +1 swords in one day.  You can buy 100 +1 swords every week for 100 weeks.  Its a supply curve issue.And because Magic Items don't wear down, after a while you could flood the world with +1 swords if there wasn't a sink in the other direction, such as Radiuum and Super Swords.</blockquote>

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