Thank you all for your poignant responses. I have enjoyed reading them and am looking forward to further posts. Every effort is being made to address the issues that have been raised.

The dev costs of weapon skills were supposed to be changed at the time combat changed, but I failed to follow through and make that change. We are re-evaluating the dev cost and crit potential of weapons and will have a new formula soon.
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