How do arcanium weapons work?

Asking this question cuz I have the reading comprehension of an enchilada. Will other classes be using them like warlords and knights? Also what will they do?

Should only be usable by Conj— the weapon skills have a flat Magic requirement, alongside the skill cost in Weapon Stat (as for with the new changes for Hybrid Weapons).

At most, Mages (and other magic builds) might be able to cast spells from them, as those spells don’t actually require a stat invest in weapons to use.

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These are the main pieces of info iirc. Do note that there’s quite a bit of outdated stuff on some of them (especially the [XL] Arcanium Weapons trello page, probably the oldest and least reliable of these screenshots). They are also unfinished on the trello atm, so more features could be added later.

They have 3 skills (1 of which is an ultimate art) and 2 spells.

Skills scale on magic/weapon. Based on balance doc info that got added recently, all skills require magic stat equal to the level of the weapon and have weapon stat requirements that is equivalent to a weapon of half its level (e.g. stat requirements on a lvl 100 arcanium weapon are equivalent to the requirements on a lvl 50 regular weapon + 100 magic).
This also means that weapon skills placed on them are only able to be used on conjurers/savants (and get their tiers buffed on conj particularly). Probably means other weapon builds would not be able to use them.

nuh uh THIS UPDATE IS FOR MAGE ONLY, 6 FREE SPELL SLOTS WOOOO

DEATH TO ALL HYBRIDS

I don’t think that’s going to happen; probably using a blast with a bow will also make the spell blast unusable. The spirit and magic shockwave didn’t have a cooldown, but after the balancing update they do. I don’t know why Arcanium weapons wouldn’t have one too.

Different form the ones you have there’s like 20 spells so 22 slots after arcanium weapons after the update