Fish Spine Sword

[Headless/Snoobie]

I come back once in a while to the lands and like to know where the value on one of these. This time I can let one of them go because I find I have three of them, not two! One of my characters specializes in broadswords just because of their fish spine sword and the other who uses it relies on it for his grit-weighted weapon when not using his Sonic Falchion. But the third character with one really doesn't need it.
7 mil?
For those who don't know it's a 0x broadsword with ECW. The one with the Sonic is a character rolled up in GS3 and both of the blades came into his hands at around the same time, but the third one I think was purchased from a shop years ago.

Thanks

[Dosselmeyer]

Not sure of value - interested in buying the extra one though

[Stumplicker]

You'll find a buyer at more than 7 mil on nostalgia alone. 10-15 is probably more in the ballpark right out of the gate.

This is an extreme longshot that it's possible, but with enchanting's recent change, it might feasibly be enchantable by the buffest wizard in the game. It's worth having a capped and well trained wizard look at it to see if it's theoretically capable of an enchant. If it is, that bumps the price up even higher. Who knows with an item that old. It could have some wonky BS going on with it like oldstyle naginatas and you can have three 7x fishspine swords!

[Taernath]

You'll find a buyer at more than 7 mil on nostalgia alone. 10-15 is probably more in the ballpark right out of the gate.

I was going to go in the opposite direction and say they've devalued a lot since they are relics from before the enchanting changes and the WPS system.

[Stumplicker]

I was going to go in the opposite direction and say they've devalued a lot since they are relics from before the enchanting changes and the WPS system.

Also possible. Depends on how many others are floating around I guess. I haven't seen one in years. I'd probably pay 10 mil for one just to have it. Especially during DR, as that usually depresses silver values.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

Is exceptional crit weighting not as badass as it used to be?

[Stumplicker]

Is exceptional crit weighting not as badass as it used to be?

I believe at some point they added more randomization to crit weighting at the high end of things, so you're no longer guaranteed uber crits even with uber weighting. So short answer, no, not as badass as it used to be, but still pretty badass.

[Tonic]

i'd be interested base off nostalgia alone, part of the reason i probably over paid for a dir hafter

[Donut]

Best bet is to auction it and see where it lands. 7-10m starting bid seems fair. I would likely be among the bidders.

[sfmatthias0]

i dont think crit randomizes, they made padding randomize but ive never heard of crit weighting randomizing

[Taernath]

i dont think crit randomizes, they made padding randomize but ive never heard of crit weighting randomizing

Weighting doesn't randomize, the crits themselves do. So you can get a rank 9 crit but it gets randomized to a rank 5-9. This was a Gemstone III > Gemstone IV change IIRC.

[sfmatthias0]

oh yeah i knew about that, just got scared for a sec that they'd done some shit like they did with padding to weapon weighting and almost had a heart attack

[drumpel]

Damage weighting is randomized, if I remember correctly. Anything over 5 points of damage weighting randomizes, but never goes below SWDW (5 points). Example, you have a weapon that has 20 points of damage weighting, you will do anywhere between 5 and 20 points of extra damage per swing. The change kind of made damage weighting trash to use, if you ask me.

[Headless/Snoobie]

Thanks for all the help!
I would be interested in a trade for it, most likely. My characters who need weapons like a claid or other nice THW.