Magic Axe

[enderandrew]

Forgive me is this has been answered before.

My favorite weapon in the game is likely the Magic Axe, but inevitably I keep losing them. It goes flying off in combat, and many times my party members run off screen, throw it away, and I don't even see that it is laying somewhere. Then I save my game, and it is gone.

This isn't a problem with Exult specifically as I recall the problem happening when I first played the game ages ago.

Is there a good way to fix this?

[Azulmagia]

It somehow tends to end in your enemies' bodies. I'm not sure, but i think that if the axe delivers the killing blow, it appears in the corpse.

[Crysta the Elf]

im betting its linked with the monsters tossing smith hammers somehow

[Enderandrew]

The problem is that when the corpse disappears, the axe disappears as well.

And it has been a while since I last played, but I think it also ends up on the ground occassionally when the game can't figure out how to "boomerang" it back to the user.

[Crysta the Elf]

meaning im right, and sometimes your characters just throw it rather than attack with it

just like the hammers.. finally a reason for that problem to be fixed >.>

[Wizardry Dragon]

Lol. I think I complained about smith hammers a *long* time ago ...

~ Wizardry Dragon

[Hammerite]

I have an experience with disappearing juggernaut hammer as well. I had my whole party armed with them at the end of the serpent isle, I was fighting some monster, as the hammers simultaneously left their hands, I saved, reloaded from that save file and no hammer returned.

[Azulmagia]

But.. i thought the magic axe and the J. Hammer were supposed to work like boomerangs always... Yet the disappearing problem was very common even in the original. I always checked on them after a battle to see if they vanished. If so, they always end up on one of the corpses...

Of course that isn't very fun, so i tend not to use those weapons anymore.

[Neutronium Dragon]

They'd often just get stuck, too. More than once I'd been using them when flying creatures attacked, and afterwards the axes/hammers were stuck lying on top of buildings, mountains, etc.

Neutronium Dragon

[TdI]

in the original, I remember never losing a single Juggernaut Hammer in Blackgate so I had a few party members permanently equipped with them. While on SerpentIsle they tended to disappear somehow, so I stopped using them.