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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DracoSuave" data-source="post: 4345167" data-attributes="member: 71571">However, despite what customer service is saying, there are three keywords items do get that -break the game- if keyword inheritance is permitted.At-Will.Encounter.Daily.Yes, these are -defined- as keywords on page 55.According to customer service's logic, that means therefore, that the at-will keyword is inherited by all powers using a frost weapon.Let that sink in for a bit.ALL POWERS USED WITH A FROST WEAPON ARE NOW AT-WILL.Second:ALL POWERS USED WITH A FROST WEAPON ARE NOW DAILY.This cannot possibly be.  This is an impossible situation that breaks the game, ergo, the situation -cannot- be the correct interpretation.Let's get even more rediculous with this.  If power inheritance worked like that, then item powers would also inherit the key-words of class powers used with it.Let's say I use Unyielding Avalanche.This is a power with the keywords Daily, Healing, Martial, Stance, and Weapon.Setting Daily aside, this means that item powers used with it inherit the keywords Stance and Weapon.  So, let's say I use it with a frost weapon's Daily.  Now the Frost Weapon's Daily power has the Keywords Healing, Martial, Stance, and Weapon.This applies the following rules baggage to it:The effect lasts for five minutes or one encounter, and a weapon is required to use it.Well the last bit's sort of 'duh, it's the weapon.'  But the Stance keyword applies a persistant rule on the Frost Weapon's power.  Now it's -on- and remains on.... so it continues to keep the keywords Healing, Martial, Stance, Cold, and Weapon.Now I Brute Strike.  The Brute Strike inherits the keywords Healing, Stance, Cold.  Now that Brute Strike stays in play all encounter.......And now the original item power inherits Reliable.So now, the frost weapon's power is a Daily Cold Healing Martial Reliable Stance Weapon......And now any power I use is a Reliable Cold Stance of Healing Weapons.And Daily.Can you not see how this interpretation, when applied... becomes REDICULOUS?This is counter-intuitive.  Foolish.  Wrong.The grokable interpretation is this:You use a power to change the keyword of the -damage-, and the damage's keyword changes.  That's what it -says- it does, that's what the example says in the book, and it -makes sense-, and it does not BREAK the game to do so.Powers that were Daily don't become At-Will just because you used a Frost Weapon, and all your At-Will abilities didn't just suddenly become Daily just because you used a wand.Like racial powers and class powers, magic item powers often have keywords that indicate their damage or effect types. When you use a magic item as part of a racial power or a class power, the keywords of the item’s power and the other power all apply. For instance, if a paladin uses a flaming sword to attack with a power that deals radiant damage, the power deals both fire damage and radiant damage.Can someone please tell me where in this paragraph it suddenly stopped talking about damage and effect types of item powers and mentions that the powers themselves are inheriting keywords?  Reading the entire paragraph it should be obvious that it's talking about damage/effect types.</blockquote>

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