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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 5862999" data-attributes="member: 4937">Your DM is a devious RB much to my liking, and you should be grateful.Your DM has struck an interesting balance here.&nbsp; He's given you a powerful and novel weapon well suited to your abilities, but largely avoided a mere christmas tree effect.&nbsp; You're quite right; while the weapon is technically equivalent to at least a +6 weapon, the particular combination of effects is not enormously powerful.&nbsp;&nbsp; The free weapon finesse is marginal, since anyone that could really benefit for this probably planned it into the character.&nbsp; The lycanthrope bane power is only situationally useful; when you can spotlight with the weapon its going to be amazing, but most of the time its a minor note about the weapon.On the other hand, it does address one critical problem with the high level bard and that's the ability to contribute in terms of consistant damage.&nbsp; If you think about it, this is something like a rapier +4 to hit, +10 to damage, and its very much going to continue to scale with your level.&nbsp; What he's given you is optimization, but optimization on his terms rather than on the player's terms.&nbsp; I could accept a weapon like this into my campaign, only if your DM is anything like me, expect this weapon to stay with you your whole career.In full disclosure, I just gave out a +2 eager keen cold iron rapier of swiftness.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 5862999, member: 4937"] Your DM is a devious RB much to my liking, and you should be grateful. Your DM has struck an interesting balance here. He's given you a powerful and novel weapon well suited to your abilities, but largely avoided a mere christmas tree effect. You're quite right; while the weapon is technically equivalent to [I]at least[/I] a +6 weapon, the particular combination of effects is not enormously powerful. The free weapon finesse is marginal, since anyone that could really benefit for this probably planned it into the character. The lycanthrope bane power is only situationally useful; when you can spotlight with the weapon its going to be amazing, but most of the time its a minor note about the weapon. On the other hand, it does address one critical problem with the high level bard and that's the ability to contribute in terms of consistant damage. If you think about it, this is something like a rapier +4 to hit, +10 to damage, and its very much going to continue to scale with your level. What he's given you is optimization, but optimization on his terms rather than on the player's terms. I could accept a weapon like this into my campaign, only if your DM is anything like me, expect this weapon to stay with you your whole career. In full disclosure, I just gave out a [I]+2 eager keen cold iron rapier of swiftness[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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