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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 4343999" data-attributes="member: 71571">All keywords apply.  It does not give the keyword to the class or racial power... nor does the class or racial power give its keyword to the daily power.Does a Brute Strike used with a vorpal weapon's power suddenly make that item power Reliable?  No.  Of course not.However, if an enemy had vulnerability 5 to reliable, than the damage from the vorpal blade's power would also affect that vulnerability, because the -damage- applies the keywords of all powers contributing to it.What you are doing is taking the words 'The keywords of the item's power and the other power all apply' and changing them to mean 'The keywords on the item are given to the other power.'  That is -not- what it says at all.  It is mentioning the -effect- of the power's combining.  The item does not -effect- the class or racial power, it -effects- its target.  In the case of flaming's at-will power, the -target- is the sword itself.  This gives the sword's damage the fire keyword.  It does not target any enemy whatsoever.  So, while an enemy is taking damage with the fire keyword when you use this weapon, it is not being targeted by -any powers- with the fire keyword.  That distinction is important.For example, let's say you had an ability that had the Poison keyword, but dealt non-typed damage and had a debilitating effect.  You use this on an enemy with vulnerability 10 to poison.The enemy does not take 10 extra damage, because the -damage type- is what vulnerability is triggered by, not powers targetting it.This also matters for ongoing damage.  Ongoing damage caused by a power using a weapon's at-will ability gains the type of the weapon's damage, because it's -damage-.  This means that if you have two powers that deal ongoing damage, and a frost weapon, you can use it's at-will to change the damage to cold damage, deal the ongoing damage with the first power and -have- it be cold damage, then spend an action point, cancel the weapon's at-will to make the damage normal again, and deal untyped ongoing damage, and have -both- stack on the target when normally that would not happen.Damage type keywords and power keywords are not the same thing.  A cold power is not automatically cold damaging, just like a poison power is not automatically poison damaging.  It just usually works that way.Powers don't inherit keywords from other powers, -effects- do.Also, any statement that says 'flaming weapons always do fire damage' is completely ignoring one of their powers explicitly states you have the ability to turn that crap off, and that you explicitly use a free action to turn that crap on.</blockquote>

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