Weapon enchantment summary

Weapon Enchantments Overview
This is a list of enchantment effects that can appear on randomly-generated weapons.

See also: Armor Enchantments, Clothing Enchantments.

   Base Weapon Type <"of" Suffix> +2     Wounding Adamantine Shortsword       of Puncturing

An item can have a maximum of 1 material, 1 prefix and 1 suffix, unless it is one of the unique quest rewards or unique chest loot items. See base price modifier for details.

Materials
Special materials may give additional properties to items:

Prefixes

 * * A Vorpal Strike is a natural 20 followed by a successful confirmation roll of the critical hit.

Elemental Weapons (Prefix)
Elemental weapons do 1d6 extra damage to most targets, but some will take more damage, while others will be immune or even heal. Fire and acid will often stop the regeneration of some monsters, like Trolls. Elemental damage is equivalent to a +1 enhancement, Elemental Burst is +2, in terms of item value.


 * * 1 - Screaming can only be found on named items.
 * * 2 - Force and Force Burst aren't really "elemental", and can only found on handwraps (+2 and +4), as a randomly generated item.

Alignment Weapons (Prefix)
* Pure Good is an exception. It is a suffix.

Some weapons do alignment damage. They may penetrate the damage reduction of powerful creatures of opposing alignment, do extra damage to normal creatures of opposing alignment, and will apply a temporary negative level to any wielder of opposing alignment. (Note: The True Neutral alignment is opposed to nothing, so True Neutral characters are invulnerable to all these effects). Note that most opponents in DDO are either Evil or True Neutral. Alignment damage is equivalent to a +2 enhancement, Alignment Burst is +4, in terms of item value. * no longer drops as a randomly generated weapon.

There is a separate category of "True Alignment" weapons which affects more targets than normal "Alignment" weapons, but do less bonus damage. They do 1d6 extra to any target whose alignment does not match the weapon, and cannot be wielded by someone without a matching alignment (except with a UMD total of 20). The most obvious advantage of Pure Alignment weapons is they can also hurt True Neutral enemies. A True Alignment enchantment is equivalent to a +1 enhancement in terms of item value.

For example, the Retribution named longword is Pure Good, True Law, and Holy. It can only be wielded by a LG character, and its damage bonus against each alignment are as follows: LG +0, NG/LN/CG +1d6, TN/CN +2d6, LE +3d6, NE/CE +4d6.

Suffixes

 * * A Vorpal Strike is a natural 20 followed by a successful confirmation roll of the critical hit.

Bane Weapons (Suffix)
Bane weapons give bonuses to attack and damage rolls to one category of targets. See table here.

Spell Boost Enchantments
These abilities increase the Spell Power of some spells. Each ability comes in two forms: a continuous one (granting equipment bonus) and a temporary one (granting alchemical bonus) which lasts only 3 minutes (Exception: Efficacy lasts only 1 minute). The continuous form shares a name with a similar enhancement available to some spellcasters. Equipment and alchemical bonuses stack with the character enhancements.

* Not to be confused with the other "Impact", which increases the critical threat range of a bludgeoning weapon.

Spell Lore
These abilities increase chance of your spells to make critical hits and magnitude (critical multiplier) of them. Spell Lore can be either a prefix or a suffix on randomly generated loot. Actual examples:
 * +2 Major Kinetic Lore Dagger ML8
 * +3 Major Acid Lore Scepter of Spell Penetration V ML16
 * +2 Greater Fire Lore Light Mace of Wizardry II ML10
 * +2 Abjuration Scepter of Ice Lore ML8
 * +3 Mending Dagger of Major Repair Lore ML16

* Only appears on Tower of Despair sets

** Only appears on Epic Items and Alchemical Weapons

Note on stacking: DDO picks largest value on item critical chance and critical damage separately, Lore items won't stack in general, BUT, wearing minor lore and lesser lore will increase critical chance by 6% and critical damage multiplier by 0.25, and wearing Archmage Set (Set Arcane Lore, +5%/0.50) and Greater Arcane Lore (+9%/0.25) will get you equivalent of having Major Arcane Lore (+9%/0.50).


 * External Link, outdated
 * Spell Critical Chance and Multipler Analysis

Spell Charges
Some items have charges of a spell on them and allow the user to cast the spell a few times every rest period. Generally, the items have 3 charges and the base value modifier is equal to the level of the spell. Every 2 extra charges increase the modifier by 1, and 2 less charges decrease it by 1.

e.g. Bull's Strength 5/Rest would have a modifier of +3 while Fireball 1/Rest would have a modifier of +2.