Hmmm.... Excellent weapon, but off of MOBS of that level, I thought they would drop better equipment? This a sweet weapon, no doubt, but the people taking on this MOB would have far better weapons I think. Be that as it may, I guess it would be a useful weapons regardless...
Well... note that it has magic bane damage making it a 15/22 to mobs that don't have a defense against it... that makes it's value equal to the other drops... Lots of magic only mobs out there.
You got it confused, this is not magic bane damage, this is magic damage. if the mob fails magic resist check, the weapon does damage like a 15 damage weapon, if the check is successful, it does damage like a 10 damage weapon.
Bane damage on the other hand has no resistance check.
It might as well be called magic bane dmg, since there is no such thing as magic bane dmg, the only thing they truely has the word bane added onto it is when it is effecting a specific race, but you are right about that not having a resist check and this having one. And that resist check is what makes this weapon not so good, off a mob this lvl a 15/22 sword(or close ot it) would make sense, but because of the bane dmg it just isn't reliable enough.
The only person you would really see asking for this would be a bard since their melee makes less of a difference anyway and the HP is nice, but because bards have no double attack VI hooks them up with 1hers with really phat ratios anyway and even they won't want this.
Magic bane would be extra unresistable damage to a creature who's element is magic which there is no such thing. Just like there's no such thing as a fire mob and ice mob a disease mob or a poison mob there are just mobs with resistances altered to get a different effect. It's magic damage because it hits anything that it can just like wizards spells, clerics can nuke well against undead, druids on summoned creatures, but wizards can do damage to anything as long as its resistance doesn't make it resistant to the nuke.
I have a defenders lightblade in secondadry right now. I'm level 65. I could very much use this. If I got this I'd put epic in secondary and this in primary. Then, maybe, I could outdamage a SK pet with my melee.
Most of a bards DPS comes from Damage Shields and Over Haste. So yes, stats probably mean more to a bard than damage/delay. Procs are another thing that help a lot.
Still, since a bard can melee at sing at the same time, the better the dmg/delay, the better the dps.
not all items dropped by 60+ mobs will all be the best you can find, this mob like many others has some really good items and some that arent as good. this guy in particular will be killed mostly for the mnk/bst drop most likely plus the FT2 mask, this like the other caster rng are just nice bonuses for those that can use. grats to any who get drops from him.
So far i have found this thing hits like a 15/22 all most all the time, max dmg is 97. So i think unless a mob is 100%mr it has a chance of hitting as a 15/22.