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The Dark Lord now fights only with scepters and maces

The Dark Lord is a commander and fights with scepters. Until now the game also let him equip swords; that is over. The Dark Lord's weapons are now the scepter and the mace. The off-hand stays the same: a shield or the Dark Raven.

If your Dark Lord had a sword equipped, on the next login it leaves his hand and goes to the bag (or to the Vault, if the bag is full). Nothing is lost: the +N, the options and the rarity stay the same, and the sword can be sold, traded with another player or kept for a Knight or a Gladiator. Just equip a scepter or a mace instead.

Along with this, the blacksmiths (Borin in Lumen, Thalion in Noria and Gunnar in Devias) sell the Dark Lord only scepters and maces, and the drops that favour the hero's class bring scepters, maces and Dark Lord armour instead of swords. Swords still drop in the general pool, for trading.

The Knight and the Gladiator keep using swords as before.

The pictures below were taken in the game itself, on a test server, with a test Dark Lord.

Tooltip of a sword in the Dark Lord bag
On the Dark Lord, the sword shows in red the classes that can use it: Knight and Gladiator. Next to it, the scepter he is wielding.
Warning when trying to equip a sword on the Dark Lord
When you try to equip the sword, the game says "Only the Knight and the Gladiator." and the scepter stays in hand.

What changed

  • Dark Lord: allowed weapons are now the scepter and the mace (the sword is gone).
  • A sword equipped on a Dark Lord goes to the bag on the next login (or to the Vault, if the bag is full), with its +N, options and rarity.
  • Blacksmiths and the Dark Lord's favoured drops without swords; more scepters, maces and Dark Lord armour.
  • No change for the Knight and the Gladiator.
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