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<blockquote data-quote="Epametheus" data-source="post: 1473597" data-attributes="member: 719">Each head of a douple weapon is enchanted seperately, so they'd have to be activated seperately.That being said, I can't remember a single session I've played in the past few years where we&nbsp; (with we being the players and the DM) actually remembered that elemental weapons require an action to activate.I understand the reasoning for it, though.&nbsp; A shocking, flaming greatsword deals literally twice as much damage as a regular greatsword, and is superior to a greatsword +3 (especially with the DR changes).&nbsp; The activation time is there to weaken the elemental weapons.Personally, I've found the rapidly rising cost of magical weapons to be a sufficient deterent to a weapon having 3 or 4 elemental enchantments on it.&nbsp; At the higher levels, where this can actually be done, upgrading a weapon requires time that the party might not have, and commisioning a superior weapon from scratch is bloody expensive.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Epametheus, post: 1473597, member: 719"] Each head of a douple weapon is enchanted seperately, so they'd have to be activated seperately. That being said, I can't remember a single session I've played in the past few years where we (with we being the players [i]and[/i] the DM) actually remembered that elemental weapons require an action to activate. I understand the reasoning for it, though. A shocking, flaming greatsword deals literally twice as much damage as a regular greatsword, and is superior to a greatsword +3 (especially with the DR changes). The activation time is there to weaken the elemental weapons. Personally, I've found the rapidly rising cost of magical weapons to be a sufficient deterent to a weapon having 3 or 4 elemental enchantments on it. At the higher levels, where this can actually be done, upgrading a weapon requires time that the party might not have, and commisioning a superior weapon from scratch is bloody expensive. [/QUOTE]

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