Acid Burst the missing Weapon type?

[Xanstrollinoax]

I see flaming, icy and whole bunch of burst weapons but has anyone seen an Acid burst other than the Iron Cleaver from Stormcleave?

[Ziggy]

devs gave us an answer a LONG time ago. Since acid is one of the best elements to have(since its hard to have a natural resistance to it) they did not create a burst for acid except for that 1 named item.

[DemonMage]

Why shocking burst then? Shock/Acid are the more rare types of resistance, but at the same time you can't exploit elemental weakness with them really.

Conversely Fire/Ice are pretty commonly resisted, but can also be used to exploit a mobs elemental weakness.

[Conejo]

Fire/Ice/Electricity are the most common types of resistances.
creatures can even be naturally resistant, aside from just preparing spells.

Acid and Sonic are the rare ones.

[DemonMage]

Ahh yeah, true, sonic is definitely more rarely resisted, always forget about it. Since there's no normal damage weapon of it's type, and not too many damage spells for it.

[ArkoHighStar]

Ahh yeah, true, sonic is definitely more rarely resisted, always forget about it. Since there's no normal damage weapon of it's type, and not too many damage spells for it.

Sonic on random items usually applies only to a crit(thundering), so it is even rarer than acid which appears in the non burst form on many weapons.

[Tanka]

Correct. Windlasher (Crucible) and Whirlwind (Desert chests) are the only on-hit Sonic effects on melee weapons (the Screaming Amythest Arrows from Threnal as well). Thundering is only an on-crit effect.

[Gimpster]

devs gave us an answer a LONG time ago. Since acid is one of the best elements to have

The bigger part of the reason is that since the Dungeon Master's Guide doesn't have Acid Burst in the random treasure lists, neither does DDO.

[Vanda]

The bigger part of the reason is that since the Dungeon Master's Guide doesn't have Acid Burst in the random treasure lists, neither does DDO.

Its in the Magic Item Compendium. Some of the new stuff like Transumuting is from there as well (well originally I don't know, but its all in one neat book now)