Quote Originally Posted by sephiroth1084 View Post
The bard songs grant the same damage to everyone, though some weapons take better advantage of the bonus. Deadly Weapons does a similar thing for most weapons, but has a much bigger effect on a couple (ESoS, EAG) than on anything else. Bard songs favor weapon types, not individual weapons.

The ESoS is already miles ahead of every other weapon. People like Axer can keep claiming that it is balanced, and A-Okay, but the fact is, it isn't. People can claim that the ESoS being ridiculous DPS is okay because casters are so over-powered, but all that does is make it more difficult to balance melees and casters, since any buff given to melee gets magnified by the ESoS, and still causes a rather large gulf between those toons that have an ESoS and those that don't.
How is it MUCH? If you take an epic chaos chaosblade with an extra 2d8 dmg, thats an average of 9 dmg, 5d6 becomes 17.5. So, 9 extra dmg to each hand or 17.5 dmg to the main one weapon doesn't sound like "MUCH" of a difference. Thats almost essentially how power attack is working right now off a characters strength modifier. Two characters running a 50 strength, the TWF is getting +20 to each hand and the THF is getting what...+30?

People who say that deadly weapons were overpowered on ESOS should quit whining...it simply isn't true, and there's a ton of practice to substantiate that.

I mean, what the hell are you going to comapre the sos to? A light pick? Compare it against weapons that people would want to use at end game...such as the chaosblade example I provided.