Randart weapons with resistances and evocable abilities

[njvack]

So, my SETm has:

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The bardiche of Rontir {drain, +Blink rElec Str+1}
...
It insulates you from electricity.
It lets you blink.


and

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The mace "Val Tuarph" {elec, rF++ Stlth++}
...
It greatly protects you from fire.


Which is great, because now I have rElec and evocable blink, and great rF. But it's also silly: I'm never going to use these weapons. I'm just gonna carry them around the dungeon and switch to them if I need to close with an electric eel or dragon, or if I'm getting beat on and need to blink away. It feels kinda wrong to carry weapons around if I'm not going to use them as, y'know, weapons.

Would the game balance issues of not having "non-weapon" properties (resistances, +Blink, -Hunger) on weapons be tractable? Am I just being a whiner?

[Yet Another Stupid Noob]

So, my SETm has:

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The bardiche of Rontir {drain, +Blink rElec Str+1}
...
It insulates you from electricity.
It lets you blink.


and

  Code:

The mace "Val Tuarph" {elec, rF++ Stlth++}
...
It greatly protects you from fire.


Which is great, because now I have rElec and evocable blink, and great rF. But it's also silly: I'm never going to use these weapons. I'm just gonna carry them around the dungeon and switch to them if I need to close with an electric eel or dragon, or if I'm getting beat on and need to blink away. It feels kinda wrong to carry weapons around if I'm not going to use them as, y'know, weapons.

Would the game balance issues of not having "non-weapon" properties (resistances, +Blink, -Hunger) on weapons be tractable? Am I just being a whiner?

It does not seem that much different from carrying different rings, just heavier.

I am used to referring to the weapon for mages as a "stat stick".

[Yet Another Stupid Noob]

It would not be an improvement to take weapons from "mostly useless to unarmed players" to "completely useless to unarmed players."

what with the impicit knife, you don't even have to carry around a dagger to be UC anymore.

I got used to keeping my random artifcat as a bonus butchering tool.