501warhead

Update on the 1.9.4 update; I've visited a large amount of the bonus %'s on weapons. Weapon %'s have been lowered across the board so that Damage Per Second can be no more than 3.0 above their vanilla counterparts. 

Example; Iron Sword.

Vanilla Damage Per Second: 9.6 (6 attack damage * 1.6 attacks per second)

LotC Damage Per Second (with the highest roll): Roughly 12.6 at it's highest. This would mean that rolls will go up to 33% (33% of 9.6 = ~3, 9.6+3=12.6) instead of the former 65% on Black Ferrum Blades.

Stonemason-crafted weapons will, as usual, be able to go higher than the other rolls (although it's minimum roll will be equivalent to the Black Ferrum-tier weapons, so you're paying more for the ability to get better weapons although it's no garentee it'll be better.)

Numbers (as of this moment, subject to change post-beta test.)

Swords 70% (Stonemason) (old highest) -> 33% (Black Ferrum) (12.8 Maximum DPS)

Axes 65% (old highest) -> 42% (Black Ferrum) (11.7 Maximum DPS)

Pickaxes 65% (old highest) -> 36% (Black Ferrum) (11.8 Maximum DPS)

Two other things of note:

These changes will be applied retroactively.  Any existing weapons will have their numbers scaled down to match these new numbers.

Weapon bonus rolls are going to be following a different curve this time around, a vast majority of the weapon bonus damage will be obtainable within the earlier levels (~5-6 added each level) and higher levels will be more marginal with weapon damage increases (~0.4-0.5 added each level.)

These changes will be announced on the patchnotes released post-beta testing.