The counter to this might be a balsa wood staff. You strike, anticipating that you will chop through the staff but you don't anticipate that it will offer such extremely light resistance that the force of your strike throws you off balance.
Drakkengard had an enchanted hammer that also destroyed a person's memories when it hit them. Though it's debatable if that's because of magic or because you were hitting them in the head with a hammer.
when you hit them in the head with a hammer, you are damaging their brain through shockwave which will not ensure their amnesia when you hit them in the head with an enchanted hammer that erase memories their memories will always be erased
The best enchantment is clearly an enchantment that makes your sword emenate a blinding light on command. Not only does it have great utility outside of battle, but it can blind your opponents in a fight and most importantly it makes you the coolest swordsman to ever live because you're obviously always fighting with sunglasses
Quick note before the video is finished: The worker you mentioned, the one that ran his hand through molten steel, he didn't get harmed because he was quick alone like when you pass your hand over and open flame. His hand was also wet, causing leidenfrost effect, it's where a layer of steam is created between a source of heat and another medium insulating the said medium from heat. I don't wanna be annoying but I just don't want anyone to run their hand thorugh molten metal quickly thinking it would not hurt them.
Please - could you do me a favour and rewrite the comment to say the opposite? anybody retarded enough to think he can stick his hand into molten metal and be fine deserves the agonising pain, the loss of his hand, and the laughter of everybody once he tells the story about how dumb he was.
Fire aspect is annoying because if you hit a zombie with the sword you basically give the zombie fire aspect as well... Me and fire aspect have a bad history
Saber’s sword from the Fate series has high speed compressed air encircling it. The air changes the refraction of light making the sword’s blade invisible. Opponents cannot judge the sword’s range nor can they see it’s shape. The compressed air can also be launched as a fatal projectile. And she can somewhat foresee the course of battle using one of her skills.
Edit: This comment is edited as to not spoil it anymore. You should clarify it is the Saber servant from Fate/Zero or Fate/Stay Night, there are a lot of other sabers.
Can't believe we went all the way without talking about electrical enchantment, or basically a sword that is also a taser, and most likely would be able to incapacitate the opponent even in case of a parry
what it caused excessive bleeding, like a cut no worse than a paper cut bleeds like you sliced into an artery or causes the wound not to heal at all zero coagulation or even both those effects at once. A slight nick would cause death in less than a minute.
I k ow this comment is 3 years old but i think mending would only be good if your a skilled warrior. You have to kill the enemy for their soul (or xp orbs) to go to your weapon, but then the question turns to, how many enemies could you kill to repair your sword fully and would you even live long enough to use it.
"I've got Death enchantment! Anything the blade touches disintegrates!" "So how do you put it away?" "Oh... they didn't sell a scabbard .... I'll just stick it in the ground ... no, come back! Oh dear, it's falling to the centre of the Earth..." "Well, surely that's not that bad, is it? I mean ... it can't kill the whole world?" "...." "So I take it you want me to get a plane shift scroll, then?" "Yes, please!"
@@silviafox78 you know that not every sword have a hilt? some swords are only blade and handle that is very thin, but handle has thickness that is greater than the blade unless it is sword with super great thickness of the blade.
@@bartomiej5533 - you're either a troll or you actually take things way too seriously. I was joking around with OP's joke. It's nothing worth super-analyzing and also a magical sword can be as thick as they like it :P
@@silviafox78 you could say that i sometimes like to throw some realistic thinking or logic to such posts to see some interesting discussions below(i don't mean by that i want to create a war in comment section just technical discussion) if i had offended you, well i ask for your forgiveness on this matter.
Yes, this pleased me as someone whose favourite content of yours is talking about how fantasy stuff would work in reality. My main reason for subscribing was to get some useful info for fantasy writing, so seeing two videos in that category so close together is lovely.
this video made me think of an air blade, a large blade made lighter by holes through it, but each hole is a concentration of air that explodes outward at the wielder's command. so he could turn it sideways and blast his opponent off balance. not sure if I'll use it but pretty neat idea. I think as far as the magnetism goes a heavy metal shield would be pretty freaking good XD
I've been getting that a lot recently. I thought I had long since fallen into irrelevancy and my days of being recognized in random places were over, but... I guess not. Wish I was able to put out content that makes me earn it though.
nope its just i always, well remember. its like traveling the multiverse and timelines, you are bound to see lookalikes where ever you go or just find other travelers along the way
In Bleach the was a cool blade ability where it was doubling weight of everything it touched. And if touched it 2 times the weight was 4x, 3 times 8x etc. Was kind of neat ability imo
The obviously OP one would be lightning. But rather than a taze, its a total release of energy. Sure a sustained current makes them tense up. But a meaty capacitor POP satisfyingly welds and magnetizes armor to itself and sends sparks flying.
Honestly I don't know, a farriday cage conducts the electricity and isn't hot after wards si I presume not, but things may function differently with the armour. If you find out, let me know
@@trueamericandon9985 Tasers need two electrodes to work, you can instead connect your sword to mains voltage, but if you want it to be portable (if sword had inbuild generator), you will need a constant electrical connection to ground, I think it could be solved with magic. Other option is to create very high voltage but it would hurt the user if he's not protected.
@@patryk_49 The magic would be the electrical generator, and would act like a form of lightning, so no ground would be required. A full-body chainmail suit would be sufficient to protect the user from self-inflicted lightning (tesla coil operators use such protection), or the simpler explanation of "lightning cannot discharge to the user because magic". This enhancement wouldn't necessarily have to be the full-strength lightning strike of Thor kind of magic either, a surprise electrical shock when they're expecting a simple impact may be sufficient, at least for a first strike to throw them off their game.
Steve Strangelove only if you can also create illusions of the body wielding the blade. A good swordsman can read your body somewhat to predict attacks
Maybe in addition to the visuals, the blade can make distracting or intimidating sounds based on the opponents fears or something. It could be anything like a lions roar or thunder when the blade is swung
RNG_ Lord Light is not made of particles, just electromagnetic waves. It would just be more effective if your sword shield or whatever is invisible or makes humans going crazy and seeing things that don't exist and vice-versa
Abeth I like the idea of the density/mass enchantment applied to a videogame. Like you hit an enemy with a mace or whatever and they get sunk waist deep into the ground, or just ragdoll like crazy. Now that I think of it, that's basically what the giants in that game used to have.
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9:58 anything it touches would freeze to nearly the point of absolute zero, effectively causing massive amounts of frostbite at any point of contact or shattering swords, but the effects would be lessened by a flame enchantment on armor that would normally heat weapons to the point that the wielder cannot hold the blade.
*Silence* - The blade and whatever it strikes make no noise at all. Perfect for assassinations. *Thunder* - The blade makes a booming, thunderous noise whenever it strikes. Intimidating, but mostly just cool. *Smoke* - The blade makes a cloud of smoke with every strike. Encourages a tricky fighting style. *Torch* - The blade releases a flash of light when striking. Good for exploring in the dark. Not very good for fighting. *Blinding* - Only the cutting edge releases a flash of light. Doesn't flash the wielder in the eyes, only his opponent. *Superheated* - The blade itself is very hot and cuts through armor. *Igniting* - Whatever it strikes catches fire. The blade itself is cool, immune to its own enchantment. Perhaps leaves a residue of very flammable material on whatever it strikes and this residue does not ignite on the sword. *Lightning* - Electric shock. Overpowered. Potential nerf: blade has to be struck by lightning to gain its charge. Double nerf: the sword can only call lightning in certain conditions, ie during a natural storm or on a mountaintop (like Gandalf luring the Balrog up the Endless Stair to the mountaintop to deliver the lightning-charged killing blow). *Venom* - Poisoned blade, doesn't even have to be magical. *Curse* - Similar to venom but with some unholy magic effect, like the Morgul Blade turning Frodo into a wraith. *Hex* - Shitty goblin version of Curse, afflicted person is unlucky and has strange things happen to them for awhile. *Soul Harvest* - No combat effect, but the sword claims the soul of anything it slays. Perhaps the souls empower the sword itself or perhaps the sword is just a means of collecting them for some other necromantic use. *Bloodthirst* - Similar to Soul Harvest but with blood magic. The sword physically absorbs/drinks any blood it touches, growing a deeper shade of red. Blood may empower the sword, or fuel some blood magic, or perhaps may simply feed a demon imprisoned in the blade. Sometimes might need to drink your own blood. *Cursed Blade* - If mortal heroes dispatch your shitty skeleton warriors and try to use their armaments, they will find themselves cursed by wielding the blade. Good for arming hordes of undead, golems, or robots. *Consecration* - Consecrates the ground beneath the blade when striking or perhaps only when parrying/parried. Good for keeping hordes of undead at bay. *Transparency* - Better for a shield. One-way transparency so the wielder can see through it. *Invisibility* - A completely invisible blade could be useful, especially if the wielder is familiar with its length and the opponent is not. Defending against it would be difficult. Ideally the hilt is not also invisible, otherwise this enchantment would be something of a nuisance. *Musical* - Striking with the blade plays music. Blade dancer type enchantment. Perhaps each different type of strike plays a different note, and experienced blade dancers display their skill by playing a song while also dismantling their opponents. Or perhaps the sword knows what song it wants played, and grows stronger with each correct note. *Purge* - Dispels magical effects from whoever it strikes. Super useful in fantasy with a lot of magic / buffs (mm, Carsomyr in Baldur's Gate 2). *Void* - Shield enchant, shield surface is a portal to a bottomless void. Would allow you to get very, very close, or even snag your opponent's weapon on the wrong side of the portal inside your shield. Tragically useless as a sword enchant. Probably overpowered as hell for its out-of-combat utility. *Pain* - Pretty much for torture without damaging the victim too badly. I could see this enchanted on a Nazgul's dagger or secondary weapon. Would have to have some intimidating red visual effect. Well that was fun. I could do this for hours and come up with some ridiculous shit. Hell, Cupid runs around with arrows enchanted with Lust, why can't the player have some bizarre effects? Personally I like Stone to Flesh. No, not Flesh to Stone, Stone to Flesh. You can animate any statue you happen to come across, but most of the time you just turn rocks into a stinking gory mess.
About the ice enchantment - keep in mind that even if the enemy is in thick heavy armour, freezing it will make it much more brittle and also the shrinking could lead in cracks aka hitting the armour with the sword would be just like hitting a porcelain vase with a kitchen knife (better not try it). Actually when you think about it - this might be the best enchantment, since it is able to easily destroy any metal weapon or armor on impact, and all you need is to think up of a way to keep your own blade from freezing.
Fantastic, just make it a mace, or a blunt polearm using that material and there is nothing that you could break at that point. Or use an axe, you don't have to hold a edge as much as you would with a sword in order to cut. So with an axe you can still cut your foe with a relatively dull blade.
+Chester B. i think within this comments thread we are assuming that the enchantment is powerful enough to freeze what the weapon is swung at just before impact.
Bleach had a really nifty ability. One of the Shinigami's swords increased the effective mass of an object it touched when they so desired. Their opponents would simply grow immobile.
*Sword name:* Wabisuke *Wielder:* Izuru Kira *Ability:* doubles the weight of whatever the blade strikes. Effects both living and inanimate objects. Effect is cumulative.
@@Avenus112 If I remember correctly, the ability only failed in a fight once. It was against another character named Rangiku who's sword turned into a cloud of ash.
@@nathanstultz3434 ya Rangiku was a strangely ineffective lieutenant but she was a hard counter to him. Any kind of ranged weapon was so he was a pure duelist.
I see a lot of physical speculations that are a little off. I would correct it, but I don't feel like writing a several-thousand-word essay trying to explain in words what is much easier explained in pictures. So instead I have a proposal: Can you do a collab on this subject with Kyle Hill from Because Science? Physically accurate speculation about fantasy is his cup of tea, and I think he'd like something like that. Just a suggestion, but I think it would suit both of your channels.
I would make a sword of resurrection. Stab someone in the heart with it? They're constantly dying and coming back to life. I call it Schrödinger's Sword.
Jaeger Pony I am really confused, but that was meant to be a JoJoke Spoiler for part 5: One of the Stand [Golden Experience Requiem]'s special abilities is an infinite death loop. I almost felt bad for Diavolo.
Anti-clotting. The victim will keep bleeding until they drop dead. Even bandaging won't work. If the wound isn't treated quickly, they will bleed out. You'd better have a powerful healing spell on you!
@@danielaramburo7648 Yes, but coating it in poison is only temporary. With an enchantment of the same properties, you don't have to re-coat it every so often and it remains just as potent. Oh, and it can't be washed off in the rain.
Probably best to put it on a rapier or foil or a finesse weapon like that. Great for the death by a thousand cuts approach. Tying off the wound would still work, though.
thats my idea too, a lightning enchantment would be the best, bcs you can just electrocute someone by cutting or just touching a conductive type of metal (steel), as in the weapon or armor of theirs.
Easily countered by a having a nonconductive hilt. And if the person is wearing armour, they are unlikely to be electrocuted because of all the padding material they wear under it. It might kill someone by disrupting their heart if it drew blood and formed a closed circuit that included the heart (See the Darwin's Award "Resistance is futile"). Swords being designed the way they are, that seems unlikely to me. Maybe a flanged mace would be better, although it would probably have the same effect as a taser. Then again I'm assuming a small electrical current, if it was powerful enough to overcome all the resistance of the armour, padding, and human flesh, it would probably have the same effect as a lightning strike, but be wary of keeping it on for too long or you might melt your blade! Also, try not to let your guard be broken or you'll electricute yourself!
Edward Nigma padding could be conductive if it was soaked in sweat, also the hilt to be made with a non conductive material would mean no metal hilt, and i dont think any non metal material would be able to withstand the forces.
I know I'm late to the video, but I think a transmutation enchantment that transmutes anything it strikes into gold would be OP. Not only is gold much softer than steel, but it's also almost 3 times heavier. Plus you could melt down and sell your fallen foes to pay your troops. Win-win! You parry a strike, and suddenly your sword is almost 3 times as heavy and bends/dulls as easily as aluminum. Next strike lands on your wooden round shield, and it increases over 23 times(!) its normal weight. If it's strapped to your arm, you're hitting the ground with it. It might even dislocate your shoulder and tear a few muscles.Thicker cloth garments hit with this sword/hammer would send the wearer crashing to the ground as they are slowly crushed to death by their own armor. Even thin steel plate would become incredibly hard to move in. This is how I imagine the Burden enchantment in Oblivion should have worked.
@@lebanemcarl68 lead is barely poisonous on contact with skin (i know , i smelted lead from old car batteries) some plants are more toxic on skin contact than lead, like Heracleum sosnowskyi
Now that's an idea! Enchanted sheath that encloses the blade into a pocket sized object, allowing the user to sneak a weapon into heavily guarded areas.
Might be my bias, but my favorite sword enchantment is the one on Riptide from PJO, where it can turn into a pen for easy concealment and carrying, as it does in fact change mass. And if it is ever lost will always return to the user's pocket, so as long as you have pockets, you can never truly be disarmed or without your weapon.
The mass/density enchanted sword is simulated by Mjolnir’s enchantment. Where a worthy wielder feels a light weapon, but the strike against the unworthy opponent feels super heavy. Although I think the heaviness is only felt when Mjolnir strikes the opponent directly, rather than clashes against another weapon.
I just want to put the worthiness enchantment on my glasses. It’d be hilarious to place my glasses on my enemy’s face, and watch him fall to the floor.
You can have an invisible weapon in the Dark Souls games too. It's confusing as hell to fight one since you can't really tell the lenght of the weapon and its exact location when the opponent attacks.
I 'd say that will not turn out as useful as you think it will be. True, you may try to play the opponent around at the beginning as they don't know its length and type, but after a couple clashes of the blades, an experienced foe can roughly predict the length and type. Well, it is definitely better than nothing, but probably not worth forgoing other, more insane enhancements.
Moses Wong If the opponent doesn't know you have an invisible sword you could easily kill him before he even had the time to figure that out. Imagine fighting someone who looks unarmed but actually has a sword?
a phantom sword that could de-materialize then materialize when user wants to. so if you need speed you de-materialize then materialize at parry. then de-materialize at attack and materialize just at the moment of impact
I've actually seen a similar thing done in an anime called Jojo's Bizarre Adventure In a nutshell a sentient sword could hypnotize it's wielder and freely shift parts of itself between tangible and intangible, a thing it used to attack a character named Polnareff with while behind a pillar. Sadly in the fight where the sword was beaten it didn't use this power nearly to it's fullest potential with a character named Jotaro punching the sword to pieces
So like a momentum battery? That would be super cool, two swords collide and stop instantly only to have one move the other direction at twice the speed instantaneously.
handsinthefire not so sure what reference that it’s but I was referring to storing for later use, like a mod I have in Skyrim that adds enchantments n one of them adds the ability to store a set value a from all living things that you kill and once that reaches 1000 you can the use the special (shout button) to unleash a deviating attack. So not exactly a counter but more of an absorption of power.
Even if the reach is invisible the angle of the blade is readable just project it outward as long as I assume the blade will reach me and track the geometry of its angles I can deflect it. Also since its reach would increase its mass it's more likely to set you off balance when you throw a cut.
I have the perfect sword it will talk and every time I swing it it will say. "My name is Inigo Montoya you killed my father prepare to die" Either the opponent will die from laughter, or be so distracted by a talking sword he can't defend himself.
3:50 I just wanna point out that the reason it did not burn him is because of the leidenfrost effect. When in contact with the steel, water he put on his hand evaporates creating an insulating layer of steam. Otherwise his hand would be severely damaged
What about a time-stasis enchantment? It would make the material, any material, into the sturdiest gear. Obsidian weapons, which are some of the sharpest but also most brittle, are now just the sharpest and also unbreakable.
I wonder how long that enchantment would have to last in order to accumulate so much built-up forces acting upon it that, if it lost the enchantment and worked like the stasis in BotW, it just instantly compresses to its Schwarzschild radius.
Otherwise that's a good idea, but momentum, vectors, gravity, mass, acceleration. All of these things will be heavily affected by time-stasis if the idea is that it does indeed cease the object's flow of time. In other words, the moment you cast the time-stasis, your sword will fly through the goddamn planet (depending on angle) straight into space at the combined speed of the planet's rotation and movement. After all, it is frozen in time, thus nothing can move it, not even a black hole. Meaning the person casting the time-stasis on the blade needs to be able to manipulate this unmovable, unbreakable object as well, making time manipulation a mandatory ability. And if you have time manipulation to begin with, you have no need for a weapon of any kind. So the time-stasis cannot be absolute, as otherwise your sword will cease caring about gravity and will just be stuck at those very specific coordinates in space.
No sword of rot? everything you hit with it starts to rot,rust and crumble? you parry opponents swords quickly falls apart hit armor falls apart hit flash rots and dies
Rapier with a piston. With practice, you could time it so that your thrust matches that of the motor or piston, meaning that when you strike the motor/piston adds extra force to your strike. It would also be frustrating to block as it would have a slightly circular motion. For the wielded this wouldn’t matter as they know the timing and what to expect with it.
About your density enchantment, instead of changing the blade’s weight, the sword Wabisuke from Bleach doubles the weight of anything it cuts. All you’d have to do was block a strike or two, and their sword would become too heavy to wield. Also, any armor hit would pretty much immediately render the opponent immobile.
JukeInTheBox Whether you like the show or not is irrelevant, as it’s your opinion. I’m just pointing out some of the swords have interesting abilities, and one of them applied to something he mentioned in a potentially more useful way.
I'm not saying you can't like the show or the comparison you made was bad. I'm just saying Bleach is objectively terrible, which is disappointing considering its manga writer had so much potential, and Bleach permanently ruined his career. Feel free to email me at my actual email bleachisagarbageanime@gmail.com if you have any further inquiries.
Great Power That is a good point, rarely does this come up because it's just assumed in most settings that magic weapons are "user friendly" somehow. Could be interesting to play around with this *by having lightning weapons come with sets of armor that while not ideal protection and somewhat restrictive in moment, provide it's wearer with impeccable insulation from their own electrical attacks.* Maybe even have a *"crafting tree"* that deals with *making the insulated armor not better (in a vertical sense) than other wears nor even give it conductive properties (after all it's super insulated!) but instead it just makes the armor not SO cumbersome and less akward to move in.* The idea is eventually getting the insulated armor to "about the same" stats and performance as other mid tier armors (how ever that's designed), *an acceptable trade off as the warrior can wield (with little restriction on movenents at this point) the AWSOME POWER of freakin lightning, (a walking tesla coil of...DEATH)* basically cooking most unarmored foes alive. *Wiping out hordes of unarmored enemies with a few discharges of electricity,* arcs of lightning roasting them if they have not properly grounded themselves. *As for armored opponents, even fully "plated" only at best offer a small amount of protection not to mention the fast heat built up!* The currents of electricity would travel along the metal plates *(always travels path of least resistance) and not the wearer inside so long as each piece was properly connected to eachother. (possibly with metal wiring?)* That's wear the weapon itself comes into play designed to cut (serrated edges?) or knock loose the connecting parts of the plate armor, not easy since your opponent isn't just going to stand there and let you hit them...but doable.
+NaViLlUs cIrE Most enchanted weapons are designed in such a manner that the user is rarely effected, unless it's a positive effect. Though many cursed items have awesome power to tempt the user into suffering their curse.
That weight enhancement is one of several that pops in my head when I saw the title, though I picture it slightly different. The weight is always as light as feather for you, but it weighs a castle for your foe, instead of constantly changing the weight on impact. Another one is shape changing enhancement. While it is useful to have one sword that can change it's shape into any kind of sword according to your needs, imagine you thrusting your sword toward your opponent's neck, but made it so that you miss. And when he let his guard down, knowing your thrust miss it's mark, you alter the shape of your sword as if the blade branches to the side and made a cut. Other scenario is you could alter the length of your sword when your enemy have memorized the range of your sword. That counts as shape changing too right? As of elemental enhancements (fire, water, etc) most people would want to make some sort of slashing attack that "launch" whatever elements thier sword have along with the slash. And another element I thought of is light, no, it's not for turning your sword into lightsaber, but it could function as your source of illumination when fighting in the dark, or when your enemy is blocking your attack (where your sword is closer to their face) you could direct the light to your opponent's face, blind them momentarily, and go for the kill. Lastly, I think this is the enhancement that could "negate" defense, intangibility enhancement. You can use your sword normally to defend yourself, but when you attack, your sword goes intangible, right through their defense, whether its another sword, any weapon, shield, or any armor, and becomes tangible once it touches your opponent's flesh. This is quite nice topic, shame I didn't discover your channel sooner.
A shapeshifting blade should be restrained to a determined number of shapes to not be way to ridiculous. 3 shapes make sense to me, this would also reduce the difficulty of using the weapon. A code word for each shape would do.
You forgot about one of the most powerful elemental enchantment in many different types of games, (Dark souls, Elder Scrolls, Monster hunter, etc), LIGHTNING! Now I know human flesh doesn't have much conductivity, but having a particularly powerful lightning enchanted weapon could fry someone if they were wearing armor, or even just from parrying them (maybe even cause them to drop their sword in *shock* ).
@@heretical_cuttlefish i am not sure it does all the times, but it could, and in a setting whit lighting magic, we can assume that armor will be forged keeping lightings in mind.
Actually, the low conductivity in the human flesh makes it burn. It would at the very least make them throw their weapons away. That if they don't use rubber gloves.
Actually, when electrocuted, people tend to clench their hands. A good example is Timmy in Jurassic Park. He grips the fence for a second, then gravity pulls him off.
Only realy has an affect in the long term though, which could be cool but probably wont change the outcome of the current fight. Unless your opponent is using magical healing of some kind, which I guess makes sense in a fantasy world
There is one of the more obvious enchantments that you overlooked, but it's less sword-fight related and more just a nice perk- a self maintaining piece of equipment. Think of how damn useful something like that would be. It doesn't even need to be a super fast repair job in the case of damaging the item in question for balance, but as a convenience measure it'd be insane. Busted some rings on your maille vest? No worry, it'll be good as new by morning, and it won't have rust patches in the armpit area. Sword has a knick in it? Don't grind it out, just wait a little while. Now if it's outright broken in half or completely sundered beyond repair, then it might take a lot longer to fix itself, or it might not even work at all. "Armorers HATE him! See how he cuts repair bills with one simple enchantment!"
@Kaeska Wood This is the first thing that came to my mind. It's essentially the "basic" type of enchantment that any decent enchanted piece of kit should have. @ LazyLife IFreak Nice Baldur's Gate reference.
Something like that, sure. The point of having the weapon or piece of armor maintain itself is so that you don't need to spend that time and effort and can focus on something else. Also, @Skallagrim, you're right, it would take bloody hours to think of everything that could be used, but I do think you could make a video about novel applications of magic and alchemy that aren't used much in fantasy works. Remember, the difference between science and magic is knowing *exactly* how things work (well, more than that, but as a fundamental, yes).
I would imagine the speed enchantment from DnD is a bit like the mass one except instead of shifting it on a whim, it simply makes the weapon lighter to you but not to the rest of the world. Rather surprised you didn't mention a lightning enchant. That would be perfect against metal armor no? There's also dancing enchant from DnD. You can temporarily let go of the weapon and it fights on it's own. All kinds of fun to be had there.
D&D is full of fun enchantments, unique magic weapons, and spells to add effects. Third edition has a couple that add effective weight to the moment of impact, thus letting them hit as if they were several times larger than they are. It also has the Manyfang Dagger, which spawns momentary phantom duplicates of itself when striking that each deal the damage of your strike, dealing several times the original damage in total as one strike slices your opponent multiple times.
The most interesting enchantment I've ever seen was from anime "Overlord". ( Spoiler alert). First, you cast invisibility on sword and your hand. Then, you create ilussion of that sword and your hand. I DEFFINITELY would use that enchantment.
Reminds me of something similar in Dark Souls 2. Their mainhand was relatively normal, but their offhand was a giant fucking hammer with an invisibility enchantment. In real life it would be pretty noticeable, but in game it can be easily missed.
@@robertharris6092 its gravity negating not compensating so there is no such things as "down" for that sword there is only floating in place until acted upon by a force so any downward motion would be uninhibited
Leverage manipulation charms, vorpral edge enchantment, perhaps a telescoping charm. Stab your opponent by just making the blade longer. Magic is only as limited as your own creativity
I like to think of the generic tabletop RPG enchantments as something that magically guides you (kind of like Guidance in D&D) into hitting in a more vulnerable spot, which is why it makes it easier to hit as well as deal more damage.
Well, I'm catching up with the Bleach anime and there are a couple I'll like to mention: First is Gin Ichimaru with a sword that can shot up in length at a moment's notice. Just imagine changing the range like a chameleon using its tongue. Another is Kira Izuru, whose blade causes anything it hits to double in weight, and again with every hit, until the enemy is left inmobile. Lastly there is Saber from Fate Stay/Night. Her sword hides within a layer of turbulent air that keeps the blade virtually invisible, leaving her opponents guessing at her range and angle.
Never seen or played Fate Stay/Night, but I'm curious about that sword . What does it mean "it's invisible because it hides in a layer of turbulent air"? Does that make it so that light pass right through it and thus can't be seen by the naked eye?
To Max Power: Well is more like the sword is surrounded by a haze or a mirage-like effect, so it becomes difficult to follow it with the naked eyes. Getting caught up in details, she uses this spell because her legendary sword is easy to recognize and that gives away her advantage. But I feel the concept of a blurry blade or made up of transparent-as-glass material can be a pain to fight against by itself.
The turbulent air thing is basically the magic wibly wobly explanation. in practice, the sword becomes completely invisible. The mirage effect is just something the animators added to make us aware of the sword.
yup was thinking of bleach as i was watching this video. a recent oneshot spinoff manga recently came out Burn the witch where they deal with the west branch of the soul society.
I’ve played so much of the Witcher 2 that I’m gonna grab as many blade oils and runes as I can for this discussion :) Gotta be prepared for every monster you’ll ever encounter.
Colin Velius I started on death march and since it was supposed to be a hard difficulty I went into oils and potions, unfortunately it was broken and I steamrolled the game ;(
Force damage is effective for cutting. An enchantment that not only takes the same shape and direction of your attack but carries through past your swing and through the point of contact. Depending on the power of it, you could do the classic anime thing where you slice an object meters away from your reach and effectively dismember or destroy.
About the Mass-changing Sword: The argument that the kinetic energy increases with mass only holds if the velocity is constant. If instead the impulse of the blade is constant it would actually decrease. As such, if your blade has constant impulse and the mass drops to almost nothing on impact, it would turn into a hyperrelativistic weapon with incredible kinetic energy.
Ah, but the inertial mass modulation wouldn't conserve momentum, it would conserve velocity (which incidentally is the way inertal modulators almost always work in fiction).
For a good example of why this doesn't work is with tractor pulling contests. The tractor pulls a weighed sled and as they travel the weight of the sled addicts closer and closer to the back wheels off the tractor. It becomes harder for the tractor to pull the sled even though they amount of power they are using doesn't decrease.
Like that one blonde Lieutenant from Bleach? That really was an epic ability. The only way to counter him was to either have an even better OP ability, or never let his sword touch you or your weapon (which only works if you knew what his Zanpakuto's ability was and still gave him a massive advantage)
6:04 Water isn't highly compressed, because it can't be. It is pretty much uncompressable. You mean highly pressurised. Doesn't really change the point or anything, not disturbed by it, just a minor correction.
Fun video! Gets the old nerd juices flowing - lol. How about illusion magic? A blade that mirrors the sword, so it appears to come from both left and right and/or top and bottom... Or, an invisible blade used with reversing the hands or doubling - lol? I only got about half way through Mistborn before I got distracted with a project - this video makes me want to continue reading it! :)
This video has had a big influence on my worldbuilding, arguably flavoring an entire magic system I've tried to design. I just wanted to give you some thanks on that front
I was just figuring more generic things, like a blade that never dulls. Or, taking from a ability in d&d, a spirit bound blade: you can teleport it back to your hand at will. Basically, you can't be disarmed except by literally losing your arms.
pyruleanfire demon Im sure most people would prefer to fight vs a wooden stick than a metal one. It would be interesting to see how magic like this could affect weapons used to counter it though - non magnetic metals, even stone clubs maybe?
pgp555 lightning would be very bad unless you wore insulated armour and grounded yourself. also, you couldn't fight in groups. if you want lightning, a sword that alters the charge of what it's pointing at would be better, because i prefer aimed lightning over random bolts from the blue.
Poison is trash as an enchantment. Even video games portray this accurately. Poison sucks for the same reason that in real life self defense, poison, birdshot, minor wounds, knives, and choking suck: It's slow. Slow enough to work for murder and assassination, but too slow to work for keeping you alive. To protect your life, you need to stop the threat/attacker NOW. If you cut him with poison, and he dies in 10 minutes (which would be CRAZY powerful and fast acting poison), that still doesn't help you if you died 8 minutes before he succumbed to the poison. The same thing applies to using birdshot for self defense. Birdshot doesn't penetrate deep enough to reach vital organs, so all it does it produce bleeding. If the bad guy has a handgun, his handgun bullet will kill you long before he bleeds out, if he bleeds out at all. Thus, the birdshot didn't stop him from killing you. Same with knives for self defense. Knife fights are stupid and a fight for fools who want to die. For the most part, if both parties in the knife fight have been stabbed multiple times, they will both die. Stabbing the guy 20 times does not help you survive if you've already been stabbed multiple times and will die anyway. Given the time it takes for a person to bleed out, they can still totally kill you. As such, your efforts didn't help you survive. Poison only works for fictional magical poisons that work immediately and instantly kill the target. That's akin to an insta-death enchantment that Skal discussed at the beginning and discarded as too OP.
LinkHyrule03 to be fair, i don't think most people use a knife expecting it to save their lives, i think most people use a knife because they're hoping for the scenario of "i have a knife, you don't, walk away or this gets ugly".
To directly cause damage, most poisons wouldn't be very useful, but some real creatures have extremely painful and fast-acting venom, which could help in a fight. Doesn't need to directly damage the enemy if it makes them have less control of their weapon (the inventor of the Schmidt sting pain index - admittedly an entomologist, not a warrior - had so much pain from a bullet ant bite that he couldn't stop his hand from shaking, though the bite didn't do him any permanent harm).
Poison is slow acting. The fastest of snake bites takes 10 minutes. The fastest of spider bites is still at least 15 minutes. That's way too long in a fight. Even man-made toxins take time to affect the target, much less the time to just circulate through the system, which is about 2 minutes. Even if you could directly inject the poison into their brain (the organ that is most quickly affected by toxins and poisons), it would still take several seconds to take effect. Poison is just too slow to take effect.
It pleased us Mistborn fans as well! :D Great talk! In Dota there's a character who's a Captain with an ability that makes him spray/splash water in a cone from the enemy he strikes. Everyone's always like "Lol, some water has never hurt anyone" but you just brought up the point that ends that argument. Water can cut steel if shot with enough velocity/pressure! Thanks
I have an even better idea. Fuse a knife to a rifle, maybe with a specifically designed mechanism to keep it below the barrel. I would call this spell "Bayonet"
It's not a misconception, it's still a sort of alphabet along with Hiragana. It's easier for people to understand that way. I studied Japanology, even though "technically" it's not an alphabet, it's still easier for other people to understand if you describe it that way.
when you mentioned the water jet. I thought of a sword that could just shoot a high powered water jet out of the tip. imagine a range of like a few meters. its basically a super long thrust.
There's always the enchantment of Caladbolg. When you cut with that sword, it creates giant rainbow discs that can shear the top off a mountain. Or Fragarach, which leaps out of its sheath and lops off your attacker's head before he can draw his own blade. Gae Bolg is a spear that, when it's thrown in a particular way, sends thousands of tiny spines throughout the target's body. It's basically instant death. Yeah, Irish weapons tend to have pretty cool powers.
Kira's enchantment (from Bleach) is also very cool and likely effective: everything the blade touches doubles its weight. If you manage to touch your opponent's blade few times, he won't be able to use it anymore.
shit i just wrote that and was just scrolling through, wondering how this wasn't mentioned yet. I like it cause it's simple, effective and kinda reasonable
hey skall the other day I was reading a monster hunter reddit post about why the hunters seem to be left handed when it comes to weapons with shields. And apparently the canon explanation is to prioritize your life since blocking with you dominant hand is better. But what is the practicality of that in real life? Is there a fighting style where you use your shield as the main weapon (say it as a spike at the end of it) and the sword as more of defensive one?
not any specialist in here but I believe, as you train with weapon and shield, you will train to be effective. Use the shield on the 'main' hand isn't efective if you haven't trained that way for your entire life. I would train my off hand to be the protective one and the main hand to use the weapon. As they say: the best defense is a good offense that kills your target quickly
many cultures use shields as secondary weapons. if you are gonna carry something might as well get maximum use out of it. but as a main weapon? none really come to mind.
The Actual Reason for the Right Handed shield was for animation purposes , Since the S&S in MH allows you to use Items when the Weapon is Draw, the character would "Stab" himself/herself when Drinking that Potion, so the solution was to make it a "Left Handed" weapon.
Wizard: I enchanted your sword so now it will have a mass of a car when it hits.
Hero: What's a car?
Wizard: Who knows...
They had cars in medieval times, you know. It's just an abbreviation of "carriage."
Phill Zimmer shut
Phill Zimmer well I just
The counter to this might be a balsa wood staff. You strike, anticipating that you will chop through the staff but you don't anticipate that it will offer such extremely light resistance that the force of your strike throws you off balance.
@@luminusprime carriage is what brings us today togevah
Drakkengard had an enchanted hammer that also destroyed a person's memories when it hit them. Though it's debatable if that's because of magic or because you were hitting them in the head with a hammer.
Lol
both
r/unexpecteddrakkengard
when you hit them in the head with a hammer, you are damaging their brain through shockwave
which will not ensure their amnesia
when you hit them in the head with an enchanted hammer that erase memories
their memories will always be erased
Christopher Hitchens levels of wit in that joke. I applaud you.
"The water circles it really fast, with water jet concentration and speed."
Chainsaw.
You've created a chainsaw.
How did I miss this?
Or perhaps a chainSWORD Brother. Hail the Emperor
Why live?
Why not give up your life in glory for the God-Emperor.
Magic chainsaw sword.... ALL OF MY YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
Just another way of making a vorpal blade
The best enchantment is clearly an enchantment that makes your sword emenate a blinding light on command. Not only does it have great utility outside of battle, but it can blind your opponents in a fight and most importantly it makes you the coolest swordsman to ever live because you're obviously always fighting with sunglasses
you need some quality sunglasses though, so you won't go blind yourself.
Plrsa no can I get someone to enchant my sword or staf
Plrsa no can I get someone to enchant my sword or staf
I'm calling it flashbang sword
Riddick style.
Quick note before the video is finished: The worker you mentioned, the one that ran his hand through molten steel, he didn't get harmed because he was quick alone like when you pass your hand over and open flame. His hand was also wet, causing leidenfrost effect, it's where a layer of steam is created between a source of heat and another medium insulating the said medium from heat. I don't wanna be annoying but I just don't want anyone to run their hand thorugh molten metal quickly thinking it would not hurt them.
Myth busters have also tested that effect by dipping their fingers to molten lead.
Leon Dzojic If said earlier I would still be righthanded bro...
Most important comment.
Please - could you do me a favour and rewrite the comment to say the opposite? anybody retarded enough to think he can stick his hand into molten metal and be fine deserves the agonising pain, the loss of his hand, and the laughter of everybody once he tells the story about how dumb he was.
ABaumstumpf True Chaotic Evil this guy is.
"Everything the blade touches it becomes superheated"
Did you mean *Fire aspect II?*
"knowing what your opponent does before he does it is the best"
you mean the *Sharingan*?
Or a lightsaber
Fire aspect is annoying because if you hit a zombie with the sword you basically give the zombie fire aspect as well...
Me and fire aspect have a bad history
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HunterK 05 I personally love fire aspect. And I’m my experience with enough practice one can avoid getting set on fire by the zombie
*"Dont suppose you could enchant my sword, dull old blade could barely cut butter"*
"i used to be an adventurer just like you , then i took an arrow to the knee"
I could up your crit, but get that thing sharpened lol
"Hail, summoner. Conjure me up a warm bed, would you?"
I am still wondering how lazy some people are for not sharpening their weapon untill it can not cut even butter
"What About Enchantments"
"You've already had it."
"We've had Sword Enchantments, Yes"
"What ABout *Pommels Enchantment* "
@@jameshamaker9321 Basically a ballistic knife but more rightly
But what about Dragons?
Calm down there Kratos.
Rightly so :)
Noice Pommels Enchantment.
Legend has it that TH-cam has a sword that instantly demonitizes all of your videos when they cut you with it
The most powerful of all the legendary swords only few have escaped its grasp unscathed
You've heard of the Ban Hammer, now it's time for the Demonitized Sword!
No, it isn't a sword, it's an aura.
More like a Death Note, just needs the channel name and they are gone
When I saw the title I instantly thought of sharpness V.
Lol, my childhood in nut shell
okay what is up with this profile pic? I literally see someone with it on any vid I watch 😂 it is confusing as fuck.
@@KazhnaLightfoot It's a meme. Search up 'MaximilianMus'
Everything V
I thought of fire aspect II
"An opponent who can point at your and say "die" has a distinct advantage in combat." Dragonlance
I never said "die" during shooting a gun. It still worked though...
That is a power of Lord Soth as a death knight, not a property of his weapon in a setting where +3 is practically considered artifact level lol
Deya!
But it can be countered by a "No u"
Up until you get to the guy who can go "Boom" and the planet explodes while leaving him intact...or far higher effects.
“Professional swordfighter talks about magic swords”
For over 15 minutes
Seems legit
got rickrolled
Maybe he knows something we don't!
@@SalvadorDaliLama he knows the old ways
Anyone within a radius of 10yards of the sword becomes easily aroused. This also affects the wielder.
A Potato on TH-cam well aren’t you just a classic DnD bard
;)
Blade of pleasure
Sounds like SAO in a nutshell
...This may or may not have a smaller (if any) effect on females compared to males...
Saber’s sword from the Fate series has high speed compressed air encircling it. The air changes the refraction of light making the sword’s blade invisible. Opponents cannot judge the sword’s range nor can they see it’s shape. The compressed air can also be launched as a fatal projectile. And she can somewhat foresee the course of battle using one of her skills.
That sounds freaking cool
I thought of the same thing!
Specifically Altria's sword, because there are a sh*t ton of "sabers"
@@DragonlordVindi True XD
Edit: This comment is edited as to not spoil it anymore.
You should clarify it is the Saber servant from Fate/Zero or Fate/Stay Night, there are a lot of other sabers.
@@rafaelcastor2089 I was catering to non-fans who might be interested in the show. Didn't want to spoil.
Can't believe we went all the way without talking about electrical enchantment, or basically a sword that is also a taser, and most likely would be able to incapacitate the opponent even in case of a parry
I want one too.
You’d need a fully rubber handle, and coat the back end of the handguard with rubber
You play Guilty Gear? Kye Kiseke is all about that
till it rains and your in the middle of a duel and everyone gets shocked.
Agreed.
shopkeep: this sword has the enchantment of bleeding
me: cool what does that do
shopkeep: if you cut someone with it, they bleed
me: cool
me:
me: wait
what it caused excessive bleeding, like a cut no worse than a paper cut bleeds like you sliced into an artery or causes the wound not to heal at all zero coagulation or even both those effects at once. A slight nick would cause death in less than a minute.
@@BlueVenom9 science has bullets that do it too.
@@BlueVenom9 so basically that enchantment would work like a blood thinning poison
@@dangermjor "to make this enchantment work you have to put some snake venom on the blade"
@@BlueVenom9 if you have slightly serrated or slightly flamed blade - result will be the same.
A magical hammer and sickle that banishes opponent to gulag on strike and sends them to potato field when you cross the hammer and sickle
Slav 100
Made of 100% pure Stalinium.
Thank you comrade for the hammer and sickle time to show the world the true strength of the Soviet union
@BG - 11KM - Port Credit SS (2272) hi
Cease or seize?
The sword that makes your enemy sad and depressed, with every hit.
@The Bounty Hunters THAT......Was terrible, but..I like it😆👍
That weapon already exists. I've been stabbed with it many times.
Backstabbing friends.
The will breaker
This is just PTSD
Sharpness V and Fire Aspect II help the most in a fight, but Unbreaking III and Mending are quite handy too.
I k ow this comment is 3 years old but i think mending would only be good if your a skilled warrior. You have to kill the enemy for their soul (or xp orbs) to go to your weapon, but then the question turns to, how many enemies could you kill to repair your sword fully and would you even live long enough to use it.
Sharpness V is just dumb; cut enchantment, on the other hand...
"I've got Death enchantment! Anything the blade touches disintegrates!"
"So how do you put it away?"
"Oh... they didn't sell a scabbard .... I'll just stick it in the ground ... no, come back! Oh dear, it's falling to the centre of the Earth..."
"Well, surely that's not that bad, is it? I mean ... it can't kill the whole world?"
"...."
"So I take it you want me to get a plane shift scroll, then?"
"Yes, please!"
Underrated comment
Ah well the hilt surely would stop it from falling all the way into the core of the earth, right?
@@silviafox78 you know that not every sword have a hilt? some swords are only blade and handle that is very thin, but handle has thickness that is greater than the blade unless it is sword with super great thickness of the blade.
@@bartomiej5533 - you're either a troll or you actually take things way too seriously. I was joking around with OP's joke. It's nothing worth super-analyzing and also a magical sword can be as thick as they like it :P
@@silviafox78 you could say that i sometimes like to throw some realistic thinking or logic to such posts to see some interesting discussions below(i don't mean by that i want to create a war in comment section just technical discussion) if i had offended you, well i ask for your forgiveness on this matter.
*slices someone with a fire sword, stops their bleeding.
"At least its cool"
Im pretty sure they are in excruciating pain too but lets just ignore the fact that their wound was literally burned closed yeah?
@@solopowermove2131 what about a sword that fires molten metal at people
@@lebanemcarl68 then you don't need a sword at all, just a pistol-like thing
Lebanem carl a lightsaber with some cutlery
1000 degree knife vs skallagrim
Those water-based cutters actually have abrasive additives (such as garnet powder) in the water to help them cut
Epicmonk117 Water pressure weapon?? I highly recomend goblin slayer
True... might need to throw in a bit of elemental earth magic in there too.
The way he described it immediately made me think of the sword as basically a magical super-chainsaw at that point.
It's true, it's the abrasive that does the cutting. You run a water jet without the abrasive when you want to engrave the surface of the metal.
Technically you COULD parry with the "low-tech lightsaber" as it'd have the blunt side, you know, still be blunt. Just use that.
Yes, this pleased me as someone whose favourite content of yours is talking about how fantasy stuff would work in reality. My main reason for subscribing was to get some useful info for fantasy writing, so seeing two videos in that category so close together is lovely.
yeah, I'm writing a fantasy novel as well and his videos are incredibly instrumental in the development of fight scenes.
this video made me think of an air blade, a large blade made lighter by holes through it, but each hole is a concentration of air that explodes outward at the wielder's command. so he could turn it sideways and blast his opponent off balance. not sure if I'll use it but pretty neat idea.
I think as far as the magnetism goes a heavy metal shield would be pretty freaking good XD
oh hello... i did not expect to see you here
I've been getting that a lot recently. I thought I had long since fallen into irrelevancy and my days of being recognized in random places were over, but... I guess not. Wish I was able to put out content that makes me earn it though.
nope
its just i always, well remember. its like traveling the multiverse and timelines, you are bound to see lookalikes where ever you go or just find other travelers along the way
In Bleach the was a cool blade ability where it was doubling weight of everything it touched. And if touched it 2 times the weight was 4x, 3 times 8x etc. Was kind of neat ability imo
The fact he ended it by just looping it under and pulling it up was terrifying
Imagine holding the sword inside sombody. Within seconds they would collapse into a pile of meat.
on this universe the black hole was never ever exist
Wabisuke, the Repentant. Kira’s sword. It has a very stupid look until he decides to take your head.
The obviously OP one would be lightning. But rather than a taze, its a total release of energy.
Sure a sustained current makes them tense up. But a meaty capacitor POP satisfyingly welds and magnetizes armor to itself and sends sparks flying.
If a Knight in full armour was to earth themselves theolir armour would act like a farriday cage and they would bee unaffected,
@@oliverworley5162 But now he can't ride a horse. making this a superb anti heavy cavalry enchantment.
@ well too bad, your getting all of the energy in a single bolt
@@oliverworley5162 wouldn t it still fry them from the heat? It still is 25k+ degrees celcius
Honestly I don't know, a farriday cage conducts the electricity and isn't hot after wards si I presume not, but things may function differently with the armour. If you find out, let me know
self-salting weapons. unbelievable pain with every hit.
apply salt on wound.
OOF
Very useful for making sandwiches too
Also endlessly drips with lemon juice
Your literally salting the wound.
And is made of steal strong paper that will always cut you
*Lifesteal all the way*
imagine a duel or even a tournament where everyone had lifesteal blades ... that could take quite a while to finish
Provided that you're a competent swordsman since there's no point in having a life stealing enchantment if you can't land a blow on anyone.
Deathtouch and undeathtouch FTW!!!! Also reanimating the corpse into an undead friendly creature.
Nah future sight + a slight speed bonus to make it extra humiliating for the oponents.
lifesteal and hyperarmor
Electricity is the only "elemental" enchantment that would be very effective with out giving it unrealistic power
Ajaax Xix taser swords, we must make them real
@@trueamericandon9985 Word! you are on the same wavelength as me
@@trueamericandon9985 Tasers need two electrodes to work, you can instead connect your sword to mains voltage, but if you want it to be portable (if sword had inbuild generator), you will need a constant electrical connection to ground, I think it could be solved with magic.
Other option is to create very high voltage but it would hurt the user if he's not protected.
@@patryk_49 The magic would be the electrical generator, and would act like a form of lightning, so no ground would be required. A full-body chainmail suit would be sufficient to protect the user from self-inflicted lightning (tesla coil operators use such protection), or the simpler explanation of "lightning cannot discharge to the user because magic". This enhancement wouldn't necessarily have to be the full-strength lightning strike of Thor kind of magic either, a surprise electrical shock when they're expecting a simple impact may be sufficient, at least for a first strike to throw them off their game.
Electricity and magic are quite similar if you (don't) think about it.
Illusory blade
When you swing it, length, speed and direction of the blade are visually altered.
I will be the king of feints.
Steve Strangelove only if you can also create illusions of the body wielding the blade. A good swordsman can read your body somewhat to predict attacks
How about a sword that controls light particles? It could do what you suggest but also make lasers or maybe even make you invisible, etc.
th-cam.com/video/CqrRrZa7cKk/w-d-xo.html
Maybe in addition to the visuals, the blade can make distracting or intimidating sounds based on the opponents fears or something. It could be anything like a lions roar or thunder when the blade is swung
RNG_ Lord Light is not made of particles, just electromagnetic waves. It would just be more effective if your sword shield or whatever is invisible or makes humans going crazy and seeing things that don't exist and vice-versa
0:20 I would use the hell out of the "love music" enchantment
Troper H'ghar When in doubt, whip it out. First the sword, then the dagger that all men carry.
The Flirt enchantment!
Searching for love in all the wrong places.
Troper H'ghar Considering all the different effects I'd just use it as a Sleep machine tbh
We need Skal on the production team for The Elder Scrolls VI
Abeth I like the idea of the density/mass enchantment applied to a videogame.
Like you hit an enemy with a mace or whatever and they get sunk waist deep into the ground, or just ragdoll like crazy.
Now that I think of it, that's basically what the giants in that game used to have.
The ultimate sword enchantment: every swing summons big tiddy anime cat girls
Hell Yeah dude! You would have your own harem after slaughtering a village!
@@_Sterben_ it doesn't say where they spawn, and that means you will probably kill every single one of them.
I want the necromancer blade. resurrect whatever you kill as an eternal skeletal servant.
Commissar Gamza what are you doing here. And isnt a chainsword enough. To purge in the name of the emperor offcourse.
a Chain Necorsword
Commissar Gamza Kurome from akame ga kill
Commissar Gamza HERESY!! This is Nurgle talk!
HERESY COMISSAR!!! DO YOU MEAN THE CHAINSWORD INVENTED BY OUR ALL LOVING EMPEROR IS NOT GOOD FOR PURGING AND KEEPING GUARDS IN LINE !?!? YOU DARE INSULT OUR MANUFACTORUMS? HAVE YOU FORGOTTEN YOUR SENSE OF HONOR AND PRIDE TO BE A COMISSAR OF THE IMPERIUM!? I SHALL SEND INQUISITORS AFTER YOU AND THEY WILL FIND YOU! YOU BETTER HAVE AND EXPLANATION HERETIC!!!
Nice vid. But don't try scooping molten steel at home. It's is done with a wet hand technique and you need to know what you are doing kids ;)
Leidenfrost effect :)
Aw man. I got all this molten steel and I was just about to scoop it. Don't even have any water.
Can I use chlorine trifluoride instead?
W00dledude
You can just pee on your hand 👌🌚
Don't listen to this guy, scoop whatever you want, when you want. fuck the consequences.
That would be some very painfully masturbation there dude. It's probably not a good idea to "fuck the consequences".
For a sword i would like an " ignore armor " enchantment
What if you had armour that teleported everything that hit you away from you.
@@lebanemcarl68 make it appear behind the opponent too
@@fishyfishyfishy500akabs8 lol
I believe in Dnd there are magical daggers that only inflict internal damage. Pretty badass assassin weapon
They have that in every movie.
9:58 anything it touches would freeze to nearly the point of absolute zero, effectively causing massive amounts of frostbite at any point of contact or shattering swords, but the effects would be lessened by a flame enchantment on armor that would normally heat weapons to the point that the wielder cannot hold the blade.
The sword of infinite cold vs the sword of infinite heat.
@@prehistoriccreator9600 both swords would shatter into a cloud of atomic and subatomic particles
@@prehistoriccreator9600 Just gimme the sword of infinite cold +1
@@polandsilver3419 I'll reck you with my sword of infinite heat +2. Now, what you're gonna do about that?
6:38 So, basically a Hydro-Chainsword.
I love it.
the chain-axe has more mass tho, but the claws still look the best
Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!
Judge Lance13
If you make a demon weapon out of a chain weapon, presuming how bored the demon is you could make something exactly like that.
*Silence* - The blade and whatever it strikes make no noise at all. Perfect for assassinations.
*Thunder* - The blade makes a booming, thunderous noise whenever it strikes. Intimidating, but mostly just cool.
*Smoke* - The blade makes a cloud of smoke with every strike. Encourages a tricky fighting style.
*Torch* - The blade releases a flash of light when striking. Good for exploring in the dark. Not very good for fighting.
*Blinding* - Only the cutting edge releases a flash of light. Doesn't flash the wielder in the eyes, only his opponent.
*Superheated* - The blade itself is very hot and cuts through armor.
*Igniting* - Whatever it strikes catches fire. The blade itself is cool, immune to its own enchantment. Perhaps leaves a residue of very flammable material on whatever it strikes and this residue does not ignite on the sword.
*Lightning* - Electric shock. Overpowered. Potential nerf: blade has to be struck by lightning to gain its charge. Double nerf: the sword can only call lightning in certain conditions, ie during a natural storm or on a mountaintop (like Gandalf luring the Balrog up the Endless Stair to the mountaintop to deliver the lightning-charged killing blow).
*Venom* - Poisoned blade, doesn't even have to be magical.
*Curse* - Similar to venom but with some unholy magic effect, like the Morgul Blade turning Frodo into a wraith.
*Hex* - Shitty goblin version of Curse, afflicted person is unlucky and has strange things happen to them for awhile.
*Soul Harvest* - No combat effect, but the sword claims the soul of anything it slays. Perhaps the souls empower the sword itself or perhaps the sword is just a means of collecting them for some other necromantic use.
*Bloodthirst* - Similar to Soul Harvest but with blood magic. The sword physically absorbs/drinks any blood it touches, growing a deeper shade of red. Blood may empower the sword, or fuel some blood magic, or perhaps may simply feed a demon imprisoned in the blade. Sometimes might need to drink your own blood.
*Cursed Blade* - If mortal heroes dispatch your shitty skeleton warriors and try to use their armaments, they will find themselves cursed by wielding the blade. Good for arming hordes of undead, golems, or robots.
*Consecration* - Consecrates the ground beneath the blade when striking or perhaps only when parrying/parried. Good for keeping hordes of undead at bay.
*Transparency* - Better for a shield. One-way transparency so the wielder can see through it.
*Invisibility* - A completely invisible blade could be useful, especially if the wielder is familiar with its length and the opponent is not. Defending against it would be difficult. Ideally the hilt is not also invisible, otherwise this enchantment would be something of a nuisance.
*Musical* - Striking with the blade plays music. Blade dancer type enchantment. Perhaps each different type of strike plays a different note, and experienced blade dancers display their skill by playing a song while also dismantling their opponents. Or perhaps the sword knows what song it wants played, and grows stronger with each correct note.
*Purge* - Dispels magical effects from whoever it strikes. Super useful in fantasy with a lot of magic / buffs (mm, Carsomyr in Baldur's Gate 2).
*Void* - Shield enchant, shield surface is a portal to a bottomless void. Would allow you to get very, very close, or even snag your opponent's weapon on the wrong side of the portal inside your shield. Tragically useless as a sword enchant. Probably overpowered as hell for its out-of-combat utility.
*Pain* - Pretty much for torture without damaging the victim too badly. I could see this enchanted on a Nazgul's dagger or secondary weapon. Would have to have some intimidating red visual effect.
Well that was fun. I could do this for hours and come up with some ridiculous shit. Hell, Cupid runs around with arrows enchanted with Lust, why can't the player have some bizarre effects? Personally I like Stone to Flesh. No, not Flesh to Stone, Stone to Flesh. You can animate any statue you happen to come across, but most of the time you just turn rocks into a stinking gory mess.
Most of these are dope as all hell
Yes but how do you have the time
Im pretty sure the sword would crack if you tried to force that much magical energy into it lol
silence: strike your equipment for master level sneakage
also: accidentally cut yourself on the edge, while cleaning, forever mute but never heard
OH MY GOD MAKE THIS A SKYRIM MOD
About the ice enchantment - keep in mind that even if the enemy is in thick heavy armour, freezing it will make it much more brittle and also the shrinking could lead in cracks aka hitting the armour with the sword would be just like hitting a porcelain vase with a kitchen knife (better not try it). Actually when you think about it - this might be the best enchantment, since it is able to easily destroy any metal weapon or armor on impact, and all you need is to think up of a way to keep your own blade from freezing.
RitsarStudios or have the enchantment on a mace or some other blu tnforce weapon
Fantastic, just make it a mace, or a blunt polearm using that material and there is nothing that you could break at that point. Or use an axe, you don't have to hold a edge as much as you would with a sword in order to cut. So with an axe you can still cut your foe with a relatively dull blade.
It would need to be frozen before it's struck for that to haven any chance of happening.
+Chester B.
i think within this comments thread we are assuming that the enchantment is powerful enough to freeze what the weapon is swung at just before impact.
Or that you just hit it a second time after the first hit froze the target.
Bleach had a really nifty ability.
One of the Shinigami's swords increased the effective mass of an object it touched when they so desired. Their opponents would simply grow immobile.
That was a cool weapon effect. You had to fight without getting hit or even parrying.
*Sword name:* Wabisuke
*Wielder:* Izuru Kira
*Ability:* doubles the weight of whatever the blade strikes. Effects both living and inanimate objects. Effect is cumulative.
@@nathanstultz3434 exactly thankyou for finding it. That would turn any defensive fighter unstoppable. Just parry your way to a win.
@@Avenus112 If I remember correctly, the ability only failed in a fight once. It was against another character named Rangiku who's sword turned into a cloud of ash.
@@nathanstultz3434 ya Rangiku was a strangely ineffective lieutenant but she was a hard counter to him. Any kind of ranged weapon was so he was a pure duelist.
I see a lot of physical speculations that are a little off. I would correct it, but I don't feel like writing a several-thousand-word essay trying to explain in words what is much easier explained in pictures. So instead I have a proposal:
Can you do a collab on this subject with Kyle Hill from Because Science? Physically accurate speculation about fantasy is his cup of tea, and I think he'd like something like that. Just a suggestion, but I think it would suit both of your channels.
WarlandWriter good idea tbh, I hope skall sees this.
I second this motion.
yes please that would be excelent
Kyle does the calculations. Check out his new Because Science Live shows where he answers things off the top of his head.
I also support this idea.
I would make a sword of resurrection. Stab someone in the heart with it? They're constantly dying and coming back to life. I call it Schrödinger's Sword.
Jaeger Pony GER?
*poses furiously*
Nah, Canadian/Finnish. ^^
Jaeger Pony I am really confused, but that was meant to be a JoJoke
Spoiler for part 5:
One of the Stand [Golden Experience Requiem]'s special abilities is an infinite death loop. I almost felt bad for Diavolo.
Oh, never seen the show. I thought you meant GER as in German because of my name. =P
@@jaegerpony nice torture device but please put the poor guy out of his misery.
oh come on we know the best enchantments...
sharpness 5
mending
fire aspect
knockback 2
sweeping edge
unbreaking 3
Nah looting would be key you'd be rich
Don’t forget bane of arthropods. For those of us that’ll use the blades against tiny spiders.
Fire Aspect 2, and Sweeping Edge 3. No need for unbreaking, and knockback is negative.
@@mewion6774 you cant forget Sharpness V and mending, thats like the main source of the power. Also unbreaking III is great
Don't put knockback on a serious pvp sword wtf
Anti-clotting. The victim will keep bleeding until they drop dead. Even bandaging won't work. If the wound isn't treated quickly, they will bleed out. You'd better have a powerful healing spell on you!
Already exists. It called rat poison. Coat sword with a rat poison paste.... uncontrollable bleeding.
@@danielaramburo7648 Yes, but coating it in poison is only temporary. With an enchantment of the same properties, you don't have to re-coat it every so often and it remains just as potent. Oh, and it can't be washed off in the rain.
Probably best to put it on a rapier or foil or a finesse weapon like that. Great for the death by a thousand cuts approach.
Tying off the wound would still work, though.
Boi what about a lightning enchantment?
Then again, that would just be like strapping a tazer to your sword...
thats my idea too, a lightning enchantment would be the best, bcs you can just electrocute someone by cutting or just touching a conductive type of metal (steel), as in the weapon or armor of theirs.
You mean like that chinese sword modification in fallout 4?
Easily countered by a having a nonconductive hilt. And if the person is wearing armour, they are unlikely to be electrocuted because of all the padding material they wear under it.
It might kill someone by disrupting their heart if it drew blood and formed a closed circuit that included the heart (See the Darwin's Award "Resistance is futile"). Swords being designed the way they are, that seems unlikely to me. Maybe a flanged mace would be better, although it would probably have the same effect as a taser.
Then again I'm assuming a small electrical current, if it was powerful enough to overcome all the resistance of the armour, padding, and human flesh, it would probably have the same effect as a lightning strike, but be wary of keeping it on for too long or you might melt your blade! Also, try not to let your guard be broken or you'll electricute yourself!
I think the armor of the enemy will be like a faraday cage
Edward Nigma padding could be conductive if it was soaked in sweat, also the hilt to be made with a non conductive material would mean no metal hilt, and i dont think any non metal material would be able to withstand the forces.
I know I'm late to the video, but I think a transmutation enchantment that transmutes anything it strikes into gold would be OP. Not only is gold much softer than steel, but it's also almost 3 times heavier. Plus you could melt down and sell your fallen foes to pay your troops. Win-win!
You parry a strike, and suddenly your sword is almost 3 times as heavy and bends/dulls as easily as aluminum. Next strike lands on your wooden round shield, and it increases over 23 times(!) its normal weight. If it's strapped to your arm, you're hitting the ground with it. It might even dislocate your shoulder and tear a few muscles.Thicker cloth garments hit with this sword/hammer would send the wearer crashing to the ground as they are slowly crushed to death by their own armor. Even thin steel plate would become incredibly hard to move in. This is how I imagine the Burden enchantment in Oblivion should have worked.
Azmarov That's brilliant, lol.
Lead would be even worse and you could sell it to assassins!!
@@lebanemcarl68 why lead would be worse? it lighter than gold and isn't that much useful at poison making
@@ciberzombiegaming8207 1 lead is softer than gold 2. Lead itself is a poison.
@@lebanemcarl68 lead is barely poisonous on contact with skin (i know , i smelted lead from old car batteries) some plants are more toxic on skin contact than lead, like Heracleum sosnowskyi
Dude. I'd want the Bo-Staff of Diarrhea.
Dog 1 Some of y'all are evil😂
just imagine shanking someone with a dagger of dysentary and watching them shit themselves to death
'The dagger of dysentery' I know a few dungeon masters who would take that idea and run with it to the most ridiculous of places.
Dead island shout out!
Have you not seen Kickass 2, its called a "Sick-stick"
How about a superhot enchantment
Time only moves when you move
I choose the enchantment that transforms my sword into a loaded and fully functional gun.
Beriorn that shoots pommels
if you could swap back and forth quickly that might be kinda cool, but its basically polymorph magic at that point
An enchant to transform things into gold / food / naked women
With infitity ammo!
Beriorn final fantasy 13 for you ;)
SUNLIGHT BLADE!!! how do you not even mention it?!? I guess we can't all be so grossly incandescent.
PRAISE THE SUN!!!!!
Hydron colider sword
jack roberts \[T]/
and poo you would get roasted
Do you want to be blind? That's how you got blind.
Now that's an idea! Enchanted sheath that encloses the blade into a pocket sized object, allowing the user to sneak a weapon into heavily guarded areas.
Might be my bias, but my favorite sword enchantment is the one on Riptide from PJO, where it can turn into a pen for easy concealment and carrying, as it does in fact change mass. And if it is ever lost will always return to the user's pocket, so as long as you have pockets, you can never truly be disarmed or without your weapon.
the monkey stick can be put on you ear and for some reason it stick to your skin soo they dont fall
Don't forget the Prision Pocket.
@@Choppytehbear1337 all the ol' endless void
The mass/density enchanted sword is simulated by Mjolnir’s enchantment. Where a worthy wielder feels a light weapon, but the strike against the unworthy opponent feels super heavy. Although I think the heaviness is only felt when Mjolnir strikes the opponent directly, rather than clashes against another weapon.
Colin Velius That's only the American Comics Mjölnir. The original one has the boomerang enchantment and the mass, while Thor has the strength.
Alexander The Great True but even with those artefacts Thor is the only one strong enough to wield it. (If I am not mistaken.)
I just want to put the worthiness enchantment on my glasses. It’d be hilarious to place my glasses on my enemy’s face, and watch him fall to the floor.
An invisible blade. It would take some time getting used to it, but it would be extremely difficult for an opponent to dodge or parry its attacks.
I loved that in Soul Callibur with Yun Seong, my friend had a lot of trouble with it ^^
You can have an invisible weapon in the Dark Souls games too. It's confusing as hell to fight one since you can't really tell the lenght of the weapon and its exact location when the opponent attacks.
Like dark rift from darks souls 3
I 'd say that will not turn out as useful as you think it will be. True, you may try to play the opponent around at the beginning as they don't know its length and type, but after a couple clashes of the blades, an experienced foe can roughly predict the length and type.
Well, it is definitely better than nothing, but probably not worth forgoing other, more insane enhancements.
Moses Wong If the opponent doesn't know you have an invisible sword you could easily kill him before he even had the time to figure that out. Imagine fighting someone who looks unarmed but actually has a sword?
6:00
a water cutter works actually a bit different. The watter is mostly used to exalerate fine sand to realy high velocitys. that does the cutting.
“Exalerate”
I'm glad someone also noted that.
Accelerate*
@@tonyhakston536 No, he meant "Axelerate" because the sand has the shape of very small axe heads, and THAT does the cutting.
it can be diamonds as well as send
a phantom sword that could de-materialize then materialize when user wants to. so if you need speed you de-materialize then materialize at parry. then de-materialize at attack and materialize just at the moment of impact
Technically you could probably dematerialize parts of the blade like that and use it to shiv people through even the heaviest plate armor.
So, kinda like turning a lightsaber on and off during a fight?
I've actually seen a similar thing done in an anime called Jojo's Bizarre Adventure
In a nutshell a sentient sword could hypnotize it's wielder and freely shift parts of itself between tangible and intangible, a thing it used to attack a character named Polnareff with while behind a pillar.
Sadly in the fight where the sword was beaten it didn't use this power nearly to it's fullest potential with a character named Jotaro punching the sword to pieces
What about a sword that absorbs all incoming force when used in defense and in offense it releases the absorbed force that it absorbed prior to.
So like a momentum battery? That would be super cool, two swords collide and stop instantly only to have one move the other direction at twice the speed instantaneously.
So basically, a Black Panther sword.
[Absorb Impact] + [Impact Boost] would give you something close...
Of course [Reflect Impact] works pretty well too.
Ok Meliodas, full counter. That's literally what you are thinking of.
handsinthefire not so sure what reference that it’s but I was referring to storing for later use, like a mod I have in Skyrim that adds enchantments n one of them adds the ability to store a set value a from all living things that you kill and once that reaches 1000 you can the use the special (shout button) to unleash a deviating attack. So not exactly a counter but more of an absorption of power.
Enchantment: reach.
The extention is invisible.
Distant screaming in horror intensifies
Malicious Muppet
ECKSU KARIBAHH
Even if the reach is invisible the angle of the blade is readable just project it outward as long as I assume the blade will reach me and track the geometry of its angles I can deflect it. Also since its reach would increase its mass it's more likely to set you off balance when you throw a cut.
WorldWearyAngel weightless extra mass. Blade is 3km long
*hacker detected
Shinso plus imagine blade.
I have the perfect sword it will talk and every time I swing it it will say. "My name is Inigo Montoya you killed my father prepare to die" Either the opponent will die from laughter, or be so distracted by a talking sword he can't defend himself.
Inigo*
What if it also continued the whole phrase once it was triggered, resulting in a chorus
So a permanent magic mouth spell?
@@crabtronable more or less, yeah
I'd prefer a sword that always said, "I think that enemy got...THE POINT!"
3:50 I just wanna point out that the reason it did not burn him is because of the leidenfrost effect. When in contact with the steel, water he put on his hand evaporates creating an insulating layer of steam. Otherwise his hand would be severely damaged
Sharpness V, Knockback II, Fire Aspect II, Unbreaking III
Darth Vader wanna join my Christian Minecraft server?
Knock back sucks mah dude.
Sharpness V is very stupid, so no.
What about a time-stasis enchantment? It would make the material, any material, into the sturdiest gear. Obsidian weapons, which are some of the sharpest but also most brittle, are now just the sharpest and also unbreakable.
Well, by the _time_ the enchantment expires, your sword will turn into a dust instantly.
Maybe with a bit of explosive power.
If it explodes when the enchantment wears off, that would make for some good arrows/crossbow bolts, I'd say.
Omnidirectional. . .
I wonder how long that enchantment would have to last in order to accumulate so much built-up forces acting upon it that, if it lost the enchantment and worked like the stasis in BotW, it just instantly compresses to its Schwarzschild radius.
Otherwise that's a good idea, but momentum, vectors, gravity, mass, acceleration. All of these things will be heavily affected by time-stasis if the idea is that it does indeed cease the object's flow of time. In other words, the moment you cast the time-stasis, your sword will fly through the goddamn planet (depending on angle) straight into space at the combined speed of the planet's rotation and movement. After all, it is frozen in time, thus nothing can move it, not even a black hole.
Meaning the person casting the time-stasis on the blade needs to be able to manipulate this unmovable, unbreakable object as well, making time manipulation a mandatory ability. And if you have time manipulation to begin with, you have no need for a weapon of any kind.
So the time-stasis cannot be absolute, as otherwise your sword will cease caring about gravity and will just be stuck at those very specific coordinates in space.
No sword of rot? everything you hit with it starts to rot,rust and crumble?
you parry opponents swords quickly falls apart hit armor falls apart hit flash rots and dies
No overpowered bullshit
Infect your blade with nasty bacteria. Done
*stabs the sword into the ground* Yet another great vic- why is everything dying?
He said that at start pretty much
@@old.tables1989 >No overpowered bullshit
Papa Nurgle is not happy about your comment.
Rapier with a piston. With practice, you could time it so that your thrust matches that of the motor or piston, meaning that when you strike the motor/piston adds extra force to your strike. It would also be frustrating to block as it would have a slightly circular motion. For the wielded this wouldn’t matter as they know the timing and what to expect with it.
Best enchantment, turns the sword into a Glock, lol.
So Blake from rwby
@Franz Mordhau and they are shit
Better for have a sword and a glock then them combined.
Seifer's Gunblade. It's a Glockblade.
Ammo concerns aside, of all the firearms you could turn your blade into, a Glock??? Really???
AA12 with bayonet that would be my combo weapon of choice
About your density enchantment, instead of changing the blade’s weight, the sword Wabisuke from Bleach doubles the weight of anything it cuts. All you’d have to do was block a strike or two, and their sword would become too heavy to wield. Also, any armor hit would pretty much immediately render the opponent immobile.
lmao bleach is a terrible show.
JukeInTheBox Whether you like the show or not is irrelevant, as it’s your opinion. I’m just pointing out some of the swords have interesting abilities, and one of them applied to something he mentioned in a potentially more useful way.
I'm not saying you can't like the show or the comparison you made was bad. I'm just saying Bleach is objectively terrible, which is disappointing considering its manga writer had so much potential, and Bleach permanently ruined his career.
Feel free to email me at my actual email bleachisagarbageanime@gmail.com if you have any further inquiries.
JukeInTheBox I never had any inquiries to begin with.
I hope you understood that I was joking. I do actually own that email address tho lmao.
What about lightning enchantment? (only on the blade of course) You can use it electrocute your opponent just by making your weapons touch.
HORRIOR you'd want to insulate, like with the fire enchantment, but all in all good points made.
but how would you keep the lightning from traveling into your body?
Great Power
That is a good point, rarely does this come up because it's just assumed in most settings that magic weapons are "user friendly" somehow. Could be interesting to play around with this *by having lightning weapons come with sets of armor that while not ideal protection and somewhat restrictive in moment, provide it's wearer with impeccable insulation from their own electrical attacks.* Maybe even have a *"crafting tree"* that deals with *making the insulated armor not better (in a vertical sense) than other wears nor even give it conductive properties (after all it's super insulated!) but instead it just makes the armor not SO cumbersome and less akward to move in.* The idea is eventually getting the insulated armor to "about the same" stats and performance as other mid tier armors (how ever that's designed), *an acceptable trade off as the warrior can wield (with little restriction on movenents at this point) the AWSOME POWER of freakin lightning, (a walking tesla coil of...DEATH)* basically cooking most unarmored foes alive. *Wiping out hordes of unarmored enemies with a few discharges of electricity,* arcs of lightning roasting them if they have not properly grounded themselves. *As for armored opponents, even fully "plated" only at best offer a small amount of protection not to mention the fast heat built up!* The currents of electricity would travel along the metal plates *(always travels path of least resistance) and not the wearer inside so long as each piece was properly connected to eachother. (possibly with metal wiring?)* That's wear the weapon itself comes into play designed to cut (serrated edges?) or knock loose the connecting parts of the plate armor, not easy since your opponent isn't just going to stand there and let you hit them...but doable.
+NaViLlUs cIrE
Most enchanted weapons are designed in such a manner that the user is rarely effected, unless it's a positive effect.
Though many cursed items have awesome power to tempt the user into suffering their curse.
What if you just wore a rubber suit that insulated your body and still gave you some freedom of movement or even just rubber gloves
That weight enhancement is one of several that pops in my head when I saw the title, though I picture it slightly different. The weight is always as light as feather for you, but it weighs a castle for your foe, instead of constantly changing the weight on impact.
Another one is shape changing enhancement. While it is useful to have one sword that can change it's shape into any kind of sword according to your needs, imagine you thrusting your sword toward your opponent's neck, but made it so that you miss. And when he let his guard down, knowing your thrust miss it's mark, you alter the shape of your sword as if the blade branches to the side and made a cut. Other scenario is you could alter the length of your sword when your enemy have memorized the range of your sword. That counts as shape changing too right?
As of elemental enhancements (fire, water, etc) most people would want to make some sort of slashing attack that "launch" whatever elements thier sword have along with the slash.
And another element I thought of is light, no, it's not for turning your sword into lightsaber, but it could function as your source of illumination when fighting in the dark, or when your enemy is blocking your attack (where your sword is closer to their face) you could direct the light to your opponent's face, blind them momentarily, and go for the kill.
Lastly, I think this is the enhancement that could "negate" defense, intangibility enhancement. You can use your sword normally to defend yourself, but when you attack, your sword goes intangible, right through their defense, whether its another sword, any weapon, shield, or any armor, and becomes tangible once it touches your opponent's flesh.
This is quite nice topic, shame I didn't discover your channel sooner.
A shapeshifting blade should be restrained to a determined number of shapes to not be way to ridiculous.
3 shapes make sense to me, this would also reduce the difficulty of using the weapon.
A code word for each shape would do.
You forgot about one of the most powerful elemental enchantment in many different types of games, (Dark souls, Elder Scrolls, Monster hunter, etc), LIGHTNING! Now I know human flesh doesn't have much conductivity, but having a particularly powerful lightning enchanted weapon could fry someone if they were wearing armor, or even just from parrying them (maybe even cause them to drop their sword in *shock* ).
Skulduggery Pleasant
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wouldn’t the armor work like a Faraday cage?
Skulduggery Pleasant How about the lightning shield?
@@heretical_cuttlefish i am not sure it does all the times, but it could, and in a setting whit lighting magic, we can assume that armor will be forged keeping lightings in mind.
Actually, the low conductivity in the human flesh makes it burn.
It would at the very least make them throw their weapons away. That if they don't use rubber gloves.
Actually, when electrocuted, people tend to clench their hands. A good example is Timmy in Jurassic Park. He grips the fence for a second, then gravity pulls him off.
Blight blade: cut and injuries don't heal
vorpal blade dc.wikia.com/wiki/Vorpal_Sword
Better to just dip your blade in a bit of lethal poison.
Only realy has an affect in the long term though, which could be cool but probably wont change the outcome of the current fight. Unless your opponent is using magical healing of some kind, which I guess makes sense in a fantasy world
That doesn't really help you win a fight, though.
The downside is if you cut yourself sharpening or cleaning your blade it does not heal.
There is one of the more obvious enchantments that you overlooked, but it's less sword-fight related and more just a nice perk- a self maintaining piece of equipment.
Think of how damn useful something like that would be. It doesn't even need to be a super fast repair job in the case of damaging the item in question for balance, but as a convenience measure it'd be insane. Busted some rings on your maille vest? No worry, it'll be good as new by morning, and it won't have rust patches in the armpit area. Sword has a knick in it? Don't grind it out, just wait a little while. Now if it's outright broken in half or completely sundered beyond repair, then it might take a lot longer to fix itself, or it might not even work at all.
"Armorers HATE him! See how he cuts repair bills with one simple enchantment!"
It's a good one, but I can't exactly cram every conceivable enchantment in a single video. :)
Enemies may come and go but fatigue is a constant threat. (AkA; why you should choose Ankheg plate mail and not Full Plate Mail.)
@Kaeska Wood
This is the first thing that came to my mind. It's essentially the "basic" type of enchantment that any decent enchanted piece of kit should have.
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LazyLife IFreak
Nice Baldur's Gate reference.
Kaeska Wood memory metal sword?
Something like that, sure. The point of having the weapon or piece of armor maintain itself is so that you don't need to spend that time and effort and can focus on something else.
Also, @Skallagrim, you're right, it would take bloody hours to think of everything that could be used, but I do think you could make a video about novel applications of magic and alchemy that aren't used much in fantasy works. Remember, the difference between science and magic is knowing *exactly* how things work (well, more than that, but as a fundamental, yes).
6:35 Thank you for describing a magical version of a chainsword.
I would imagine the speed enchantment from DnD is a bit like the mass one except instead of shifting it on a whim, it simply makes the weapon lighter to you but not to the rest of the world.
Rather surprised you didn't mention a lightning enchant. That would be perfect against metal armor no?
There's also dancing enchant from DnD. You can temporarily let go of the weapon and it fights on it's own. All kinds of fun to be had there.
D&D is full of fun enchantments, unique magic weapons, and spells to add effects. Third edition has a couple that add effective weight to the moment of impact, thus letting them hit as if they were several times larger than they are. It also has the Manyfang Dagger, which spawns momentary phantom duplicates of itself when striking that each deal the damage of your strike, dealing several times the original damage in total as one strike slices your opponent multiple times.
The most interesting enchantment I've ever seen was from anime "Overlord".
( Spoiler alert).
First, you cast invisibility on sword and your hand.
Then, you create ilussion of that sword and your hand.
I DEFFINITELY would use that enchantment.
Reminds me of something similar in Dark Souls 2. Their mainhand was relatively normal, but their offhand was a giant fucking hammer with an invisibility enchantment. In real life it would be pretty noticeable, but in game it can be easily missed.
so it would look like your going for one attack while your actually reaching for a different area? that's a pretty unique enchantment
Rogue Viper your attacks cant be seen
@Casandshail the joke is that is doesn't do anything at all
@@TheRotMGPerson no the illusion would fake people out while your actual invisible hand will land the lethal blow
a gravity negating enchantment, it would make your weapon weightless without reducing its mass
Thatd make it hard to do a downward cleave. And itd just feel weird.
@@robertharris6092 its gravity negating not compensating so there is no such things as "down" for that sword there is only floating in place until acted upon by a force so any downward motion would be uninhibited
Wouldn’t it just reflect
mass coralates with an items ability to resist being moved, so you could lift it, but getting it moving and swinging it are a different story
Leverage manipulation charms, vorpral edge enchantment, perhaps a telescoping charm. Stab your opponent by just making the blade longer. Magic is only as limited as your own creativity
I like to think of the generic tabletop RPG enchantments as something that magically guides you (kind of like Guidance in D&D) into hitting in a more vulnerable spot, which is why it makes it easier to hit as well as deal more damage.
Easy make my sword have a pommel that functions like a flag grenade but with even more pommels rather than fragmentation
The entire world dies due to pommel nuke. Also, flag grenade... your channel (jk)
You're a monster.
Then you would need to end them rightly
Well, I'm catching up with the Bleach anime and there are a couple I'll like to mention:
First is Gin Ichimaru with a sword that can shot up in length at a moment's notice. Just imagine changing the range like a chameleon using its tongue.
Another is Kira Izuru, whose blade causes anything it hits to double in weight, and again with every hit, until the enemy is left inmobile.
Lastly there is Saber from Fate Stay/Night. Her sword hides within a layer of turbulent air that keeps the blade virtually invisible, leaving her opponents guessing at her range and angle.
Never seen or played Fate Stay/Night, but I'm curious about that sword . What does it mean "it's invisible because it hides in a layer of turbulent air"? Does that make it so that light pass right through it and thus can't be seen by the naked eye?
To Max Power: Well is more like the sword is surrounded by a haze or a mirage-like effect, so it becomes difficult to follow it with the naked eyes.
Getting caught up in details, she uses this spell because her legendary sword is easy to recognize and that gives away her advantage. But I feel the concept of a blurry blade or made up of transparent-as-glass material can be a pain to fight against by itself.
It is funny how they say she hides her sword in air, since air does literally nothing to change visibility...but the concept is good.
The turbulent air thing is basically the magic wibly wobly explanation. in practice, the sword becomes completely invisible. The mirage effect is just something the animators added to make us aware of the sword.
yup was thinking of bleach as i was watching this video. a recent oneshot spinoff manga recently came out Burn the witch where they deal with the west branch of the soul society.
I’ve played so much of the Witcher 2 that I’m gonna grab as many blade oils and runes as I can for this discussion :)
Gotta be prepared for every monster you’ll ever encounter.
Colin Velius oils were op, well the whole alchemy tree was broken xD good times
Silence Suzuka I’ll be honest: I never actually leveled up a single thing in the alchemy tree, haha. I spent my XP on the Magic/Signs tree.
Colin Velius I play the Witcher 3 I’ve played a little of the second one
Colin Velius I started on death march and since it was supposed to be a hard difficulty I went into oils and potions, unfortunately it was broken and I steamrolled the game ;(
Force damage is effective for cutting. An enchantment that not only takes the same shape and direction of your attack but carries through past your swing and through the point of contact. Depending on the power of it, you could do the classic anime thing where you slice an object meters away from your reach and effectively dismember or destroy.
About the Mass-changing Sword:
The argument that the kinetic energy increases with mass only holds if the velocity is constant.
If instead the impulse of the blade is constant it would actually decrease. As such, if your blade has constant impulse and the mass drops to almost nothing on impact, it would turn into a hyperrelativistic weapon with incredible kinetic energy.
relativistic enchantment? sounds amazing
Ah, but the inertial mass modulation wouldn't conserve momentum, it would conserve velocity (which incidentally is the way inertal modulators almost always work in fiction).
For a good example of why this doesn't work is with tractor pulling contests. The tractor pulls a weighed sled and as they travel the weight of the sled addicts closer and closer to the back wheels off the tractor. It becomes harder for the tractor to pull the sled even though they amount of power they are using doesn't decrease.
Speaking of weight change, how about when on contact, anything the blade touches makes that object at least 10x heavier.
Like that one blonde Lieutenant from Bleach? That really was an epic ability. The only way to counter him was to either have an even better OP ability, or never let his sword touch you or your weapon (which only works if you knew what his Zanpakuto's ability was and still gave him a massive advantage)
6:04 Water isn't highly compressed, because it can't be. It is pretty much uncompressable. You mean highly pressurised. Doesn't really change the point or anything, not disturbed by it, just a minor correction.
Fun video! Gets the old nerd juices flowing - lol. How about illusion magic? A blade that mirrors the sword, so it appears to come from both left and right and/or top and bottom... Or, an invisible blade used with reversing the hands or doubling - lol? I only got about half way through Mistborn before I got distracted with a project - this video makes me want to continue reading it! :)
This video has had a big influence on my worldbuilding, arguably flavoring an entire magic system I've tried to design. I just wanted to give you some thanks on that front
I was just figuring more generic things, like a blade that never dulls.
Or, taking from a ability in d&d, a spirit bound blade: you can teleport it back to your hand at will. Basically, you can't be disarmed except by literally losing your arms.
How about Armor enchantments? What types of armor would have the best enchantments and what you could do with them
Inigmian Studios the repulsive armour seemed kinda savage.
Khroniclas Epicus until a sharp wooden stick takes you down.
pyruleanfire demon Im sure most people would prefer to fight vs a wooden stick than a metal one. It would be interesting to see how magic like this could affect weapons used to counter it though - non magnetic metals, even stone clubs maybe?
An armor that negates damage would be overpowered.
Weightless armor. 1,000lbs of steel weighing nothing is pretty damn close to invulnerable.
I was expecting you to mention durability, lightning and poison enchantment. Those would be really good
pgp555 lightning would be very bad unless you wore insulated armour and grounded yourself. also, you couldn't fight in groups. if you want lightning, a sword that alters the charge of what it's pointing at would be better, because i prefer aimed lightning over random bolts from the blue.
Poison is trash as an enchantment. Even video games portray this accurately.
Poison sucks for the same reason that in real life self defense, poison, birdshot, minor wounds, knives, and choking suck: It's slow. Slow enough to work for murder and assassination, but too slow to work for keeping you alive. To protect your life, you need to stop the threat/attacker NOW. If you cut him with poison, and he dies in 10 minutes (which would be CRAZY powerful and fast acting poison), that still doesn't help you if you died 8 minutes before he succumbed to the poison.
The same thing applies to using birdshot for self defense. Birdshot doesn't penetrate deep enough to reach vital organs, so all it does it produce bleeding. If the bad guy has a handgun, his handgun bullet will kill you long before he bleeds out, if he bleeds out at all. Thus, the birdshot didn't stop him from killing you.
Same with knives for self defense. Knife fights are stupid and a fight for fools who want to die. For the most part, if both parties in the knife fight have been stabbed multiple times, they will both die. Stabbing the guy 20 times does not help you survive if you've already been stabbed multiple times and will die anyway. Given the time it takes for a person to bleed out, they can still totally kill you. As such, your efforts didn't help you survive.
Poison only works for fictional magical poisons that work immediately and instantly kill the target. That's akin to an insta-death enchantment that Skal discussed at the beginning and discarded as too OP.
LinkHyrule03 to be fair, i don't think most people use a knife expecting it to save their lives, i think most people use a knife because they're hoping for the scenario of "i have a knife, you don't, walk away or this gets ugly".
To directly cause damage, most poisons wouldn't be very useful, but some real creatures have extremely painful and fast-acting venom, which could help in a fight. Doesn't need to directly damage the enemy if it makes them have less control of their weapon (the inventor of the Schmidt sting pain index - admittedly an entomologist, not a warrior - had so much pain from a bullet ant bite that he couldn't stop his hand from shaking, though the bite didn't do him any permanent harm).
Poison is slow acting.
The fastest of snake bites takes 10 minutes.
The fastest of spider bites is still at least 15 minutes.
That's way too long in a fight.
Even man-made toxins take time to affect the target, much less the time to just circulate through the system, which is about 2 minutes. Even if you could directly inject the poison into their brain (the organ that is most quickly affected by toxins and poisons), it would still take several seconds to take effect.
Poison is just too slow to take effect.
It pleased us Mistborn fans as well! :D Great talk! In Dota there's a character who's a Captain with an ability that makes him spray/splash water in a cone from the enemy he strikes. Everyone's always like "Lol, some water has never hurt anyone" but you just brought up the point that ends that argument. Water can cut steel if shot with enough velocity/pressure! Thanks
How about an enchantment that immediately makes your opponent violently puke and shit themselves on contact?
the assquake enchant. . .
Dead island shout out!
I liked your comment because of your username alone
Have you not seen Kickass 2, its called a "Sick-stick"
Two tip tummy terrorism
I have an enchant on my battleaxe that plays rock music at command
Just buy a cordless Fender and sharpen it.
@@zadenexcalibur7694 shit u right
Gene Simmons bass guitar?
Hell Yeah! The enemy is doomed.
Is the song Warriors of the World?
Not bad. Covered alot of the staple Enchantments. I would most definitely like to see on another one of these videos.
You should do more videos on this sort of thing; not many people seem to bother applying logic to enchantments
My favorite enchantment is duct taping a handgun to the side
I have an even better idea. Fuse a knife to a rifle, maybe with a specifically designed mechanism to keep it below the barrel.
I would call this spell "Bayonet"
I cast Magic Missile!
Duck tape huh.
@Lance Clemings or a nokia
I am surprised that you did not mention an automatic pommel launcher or the mother of all sword enchantments- turning it into a katakana
Into a symbol?
Katana* not Katakana* that's an alphabet
Common misconception. Katakana is a writing system used to represent a syllabary, not an alphabet.
It's not a misconception, it's still a sort of alphabet along with Hiragana. It's easier for people to understand that way. I studied Japanology, even though "technically" it's not an alphabet, it's still easier for other people to understand if you describe it that way.
Well he said no overpowered enchantments, so everything pommel or Katana related is out XD.
when you mentioned the water jet. I thought of a sword that could just shoot a high powered water jet out of the tip. imagine a range of like a few meters. its basically a super long thrust.
There's always the enchantment of Caladbolg. When you cut with that sword, it creates giant rainbow discs that can shear the top off a mountain. Or Fragarach, which leaps out of its sheath and lops off your attacker's head before he can draw his own blade.
Gae Bolg is a spear that, when it's thrown in a particular way, sends thousands of tiny spines throughout the target's body. It's basically instant death. Yeah, Irish weapons tend to have pretty cool powers.
Isn’t that last one held in the toes as well?
For other Irish weapons, the spears Gáe Buidhe and Gáe Dearg left wounds that could never be healed
not gonna lie, this is a bunch of great ideas for magic weapons in my next dnd campaign
I opened up a notepad and started writing as he spoke, can't forget any detail :D
If you want ideas just hit me up, im a mechanical engineer student, can help with the phisics side and some ideas :D
Kira's enchantment (from Bleach) is also very cool and likely effective: everything the blade touches doubles its weight. If you manage to touch your opponent's blade few times, he won't be able to use it anymore.
shit i just wrote that and was just scrolling through, wondering how this wasn't mentioned yet. I like it cause it's simple, effective and kinda reasonable
hey skall the other day I was reading a monster hunter reddit post about why the hunters seem to be left handed when it comes to weapons with shields. And apparently the canon explanation is to prioritize your life since blocking with you dominant hand is better. But what is the practicality of that in real life? Is there a fighting style where you use your shield as the main weapon (say it as a spike at the end of it) and the sword as more of defensive one?
not any specialist in here but I believe, as you train with weapon and shield, you will train to be effective. Use the shield on the 'main' hand isn't efective if you haven't trained that way for your entire life.
I would train my off hand to be the protective one and the main hand to use the weapon. As they say: the best defense is a good offense that kills your target quickly
Paulo Maurício there's the Viking sword and shield set up
Paulo Maurício
Well the spartans trained to use the shield as a secound weapon.
many cultures use shields as secondary weapons. if you are gonna carry something might as well get maximum use out of it. but as a main weapon? none really come to mind.
The Actual Reason for the Right Handed shield was for animation purposes , Since the S&S in MH allows you to use Items when the Weapon is Draw, the character would "Stab" himself/herself when Drinking that Potion, so the solution was to make it a "Left Handed" weapon.
Magic instant tranquilizer on a stilleto, dagger, or throwing knife.
"Avoid a riot and do it quiet"