Weapon Skill Breakers

Every Relic, Mythic and Empyrean weapon has one signature weapon skill. Weapon Skill Breakers is a long-term mastery goal for the people who already own one at its final tier: use that weapon's own weapon skill enough times while the weapon is equipped and you break it. From then on, whenever that weapon is equipped, that one weapon skill deals more Weapon Skill Damage: +20%, the same for every family. Only the length of the grind differs:

Example: use Mercy Stroke 2,500 times with Mandau 119 III in your main hand. Mercy Stroke with that Mandau (a Relic) now hits 20% harder. Mercy Stroke with any other dagger is unchanged, and Shark Bite with the same Mandau is unchanged.

The rule of pairs

• One weapon, one weapon skill. Mandau only counts and only rewards Mercy Stroke. Nothing else you do with Mandau counts.
• 119 III only. The 119 and 119 II tiers neither count nor receive the reward. Upgrade first.
• The weapon must be equipped, in the main hand for melee weapons and in the ranged slot for bows, guns and crossbows. Dawn's augmented copies of the ranged weapons count as the same weapon.
• Progress is per character, per weapon skill. Swapping to a second copy of the same weapon keeps your count.
• Staff and club weapons are not part of the system, and Burtgang's Atonement is not breakable yet (its damage is computed differently and needs its own hook).

Mercy Stroke and Pyrrhic Kleos cleave nearby enemies for everyone on Dawn. That is a separate server rule and has nothing to do with breaking; the break adds its bonus on top.

Progress and messages

• The first counted use prints a line telling you the weapon is armed.
• You get a progress line at 10%, 25%, 50%, 75% and 90% of your family's goal (for a Relic: 250, 625, 1,250, 1,875 and 2,250 uses).
• The final use breaks the weapon skill and already gets the bonus. The server announces the break, and the first person on Dawn to break each weapon skill gets a world-first line.
• Every login shows your current counts.

Commands:

!wsbreak          your counts for every armed or started weapon skill
!wsbreak list     the 40 weapon and weapon skill pairs (4 pages)
!wsbreak verbose  toggle the per-use progress line (26/2500 style), on by default
!wsbreak color    pick the text color: green (default), white, blue, yellow, purple

Every counted use prints Mercy Stroke (Relic): 26/2500 (2474 left). Once broken, each boosted use prints Mercy Stroke (Relic): +20% applied, and !wsbreak shows BROKEN, +20% active while the weapon is equipped, or BROKEN, equip Mandau to activate +20% when it is not. The lines are green so they stand out from the yellow system spam; change that with !wsbreak color.

Counts are saved with your character. Only a use that actually resolves counts: a weapon skill that never fires because the target moved out of range does not.

Only real monsters count. Training dummies, pets, trusts, charmed monsters, other players, and monsters under level 150 do not advance the counter. You will see one "does not count here" line the first time you try it, then the system stays quiet. The +20% still applies on any target once the weapon skill is broken.

The 40 pairs

Relic

Mythic

Empyrean