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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ridley's Cohort" data-source="post: 229255" data-attributes="member: 545">Minor point:  A combat related ability that is only usable while using the sword is in fact just as good as slotless most of the time.  Strength is the perfect example.Slotted items take a slot.  Once you get to ~10th or 11th level or so, you could easily have a minor item filling every slot.  The hidden cost of every poweful slotted item is the useful 1000-3000 gp item that you could have had instead.Some characters will befriend a weaponsmith and put all their expendable cash into their weapon.  It is hardly an unusual strategy for those Focused, Specialized, Improved Crit sword wielding combat monsters.  Throwing a useful ability onto that sword makes sense because you expect to never lose the sword while you may consider your other equipment expendable.</blockquote>