ZooperDooper wrote on Nov 21
st, 2017 at 8:44am:
I still like the original premise of the weapon leveling up with you.. and if you TR, so does the weapon
They will never do this because if they do, then they can never make another named weapon again, except as fodder for the sentient weapons. Which means, what is the point?
This system isn't perfect, but rather than invalidating every existing weapon 1-30 and all the crafting systems for weapons in existence and every named weapon they would ever make, this system has no effect on named weapons or crafting 1-20 (besides making the named weapons useful for something) reuses all the named weapons 21-30 to add value to them but does limit the value of the crafting systems in 21-30 (ToEE, TF, and LGS).
However, most people universally panned LGS weapons when they came out and TF weapons were mocked after the Mortal Fear nerf and ToEE was really only good as an offhand for the set bonus (which still works since you can't use two sentient weapons. So you can still use ToEE, LGS, and TF in the off hand. Which works for Casters, throwers, and TWF. So the only people who are seeing ToEE, LGS, and TF being totally invalidated are SWF and S&B melees. (Because THF are using Riftmaker, anyways).