I am really curious why handwraps were written to be different from weapons.  It must have been a simple solution to a problem and the developer went with simple rather than proper and now they've spent 100 times more work trying to get them to work properly than if they'd just solved the original problem.

Flav wrote on Oct 4^th, 2012 at 2:46am:


So what we've learned here is that you've never played a monk or equipped a set of handwraps.

In the world of turbine creating a flexible program is not created by attributation, but with many specific solutions for many different problems (multiple solutions for each problem running at the same time if possible).

Handwraps are so special... They use a character attribute instead of the weapon to determine the weapon dice. Well they fixed that with [W] kinda I guess. Still it has its own fighting style. One weapon acting as two - blasphemy. Since they probably have seperate function trees for the fighting styles, rather than functions based on weapon attributes, handwraps just didn't mesh well and got their own tree.

Well they work with some C-stuff and are low budget/'high' content and now they probably have a hard time getting their heads out of their asses. Thinking when starting this whole DDO-project would've helped though 

Bill Z Bubb wrote on Oct 3^rd, 2012 at 5:02pm:

It goes back to how they implemented unarmed combat in the first place:
Fighting with a weapon: weapon has stats determining damage.
Fighting without a weapon: base character stats determine damage.

When they added Monk, they kept that split system and made handwraps affect the character stats. They should have changed unarmed fighting to use an invisible "hands" weapon which gets replaced with Handwraps when they are equipped. Sounds like they are finally doing this.