Shadow weapons????

What the shadow weapons are? I have coupons to purchase them but what are they? Are they like the other weapons? Are they usefull? Plz i would like to hear any information you can give

They are like normal weapons, but they can't receive enchantments or SAs and only last a very limited time.

How can i purchase them?

go to a weapons store, and talk to the NPC and find the option that says shadow weapon

for the coupons, you take them to the grand master NPC for your class

thanx guys

how much do they last? any1 know?

There was a great post about this.

Fortunately NCSoft has the wisdom of removing the Interlude forums, and thereby the post and all the other good informative posts in it.

Isn't it great?

i hear 3 hours of hunting
every time you eqip one you lose 1 health (they have 300)

I copied this to my clan's forum from the interlude one. I'm afraid I can't remember who originally posted it. I have the same person's guide to augmentations.

Ok, for those of you not on the PTS yet, I took some time and checked out the new "Shadow Weapons".

These are the 'Temporary' weapons you can buy that have a 'durability' and will eventually disappear.

I only checked out the Giran weapons, so I'm not sure if all the Equipment shops sell the same.

SELECTION: It looked like a large selection of C and B grade, although not all weapons appeared available. For example I saw a Kris, but not the Demon Sword. There was a bug that was in the release notes, and a couple of the weapons didn't have an Icon, but were in the shop if you hovered over them.

LOOKS: When equipped the shadow weapons look exactly like a normal weapon. In your inventory however there is a BIG, THICK, PINK outline around the icons border.

COST: A quick scan showed that the weapons 'cost' around 87K to 93K for each one. I didn't see higher or lower than that. (I bought a B grade "Great Axe" for my review and it cost me the ~93K.

WEIGHT: The GA I used had only a 650 weight. Much lower than a regular weapon. The rest of the weapons were much the same.

DURABILITY: I didn't check each weapon seperately but it looked like each weapon had a (300/300) durability. (At the least that is what my GA had.

So....the key question then is how 'durable' are these? Well just equiping one took 1 Durability point. (dp for short). I then sat and wacked on the Olympiad guy for a couple minutes and checked again. This took another few points off. Within 5-6 minutes I had lost about the same in dp. If you 'unequip' the weapon then the durability loss seems to stop. Just holding the weapon however, seems to drain the dp at a constant rate. I assume WH'ing the weapon acts like equipping and takes 1 dp off. (I forgot to check this ingame.) I believe you can think of these as 'toggles' that you equip from my impressions of them.

When the item is 'trashed' or runs out of durability you get a big RED Message in your main view window (Like the Zone change messages) that states your Shadow weapon has run out and vanished. A smaller RED text stating the same thing appears in your chat box also.

So my initial thoughts?

These seem to be a waste of money. Basically, you would end up buying 2-3 of these things (so you don't end up completely weaponless in the middle of a party/grind!) and by the end of one night you will have used 1-3 of them depending on your playtime. This is a lot of adena to pay for consuming your weapon along with your SS! Just think if you 'saved' that same amount of adena overtime you would be able to buy a weapon instead of being broke and not having a weapon either.

All I can think is this is another great idea ruined. If the cost of the weapon was 1/10 of what it was now the use of them would be well worth it without reducing the value of normal weapons. This is because shadow weapons can't be SA'd, enchanted or refined.

I didn't check or test these for how they work if you are red, (Need to research this more.) But if there are no restrictions on them, then the gankers just got one hell of a tool to work with. (Expensive for players, cheap as hell even at this cost for a perma-red.)

Here (http://boards.lineage2.com/showflat.php?Cat=0&Number=830912) is PainAmplifier's thread on Shadow Weapons.

If there are good threads from the Interlude forum that can't be found, please let me know and I'll make sure they are moved over.

Thank you Mistryl. Wouldn't it be possible just to leave those forums open at least until the next one of the kind is opened?

i hear 3 hours of hunting
every time you eqip one you lose 1 health (they have 300)

Just to summarize:

After all tests were done, it was determined that the Shadow weapons you buy have 5 Hours of life. 'Use rate' is one point per minute. (Starting when you equip the weapon.) Thus 300 pts = 300 min / 60 mph = 5 Hours of use. I've heard that with the 'Coupons' for shadow weapons you get the weapons have less total time. (Someone else posted that and I haven't checked it yet.)

Oh, and tax rate does affect the cost of these. In town the last time I checked these on the live servers the cost was slightly over 100K. That's about 10K more than the NPC tax rates on the PTS. (Your costs will vary...)

[Wow, Mistryl referenced one of my threads. I'm (in)famous now!]

They do only last 90 minutes for D grade with the coupons.
I have added a section on my site for more information on the shadow weapons you can purchase. We are waiting for a toon to do the class change to see about the shadow weapon coupons
Shadow Weapons (http://www.arktic.net/wrath/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=397&Item id=46)