Are all weapon effects inherently BAD, or difficulty plays a role in it?

[Dave]

EDIT: Playing on Unfair

I just looted The Headcracker in Drezen.

Unlike most weapons it has an ability on hit:

"Whenever the wielder of this +2 mithral light mace lands the first hit against a new target with it, the enemy has to pass a Fortitude saving throw (DC 15) or become stunned for 1d3 rounds."

I've see very few weapons with other on hit abilities, and quite a lot with "if you confirm a critical strike then..."

Now....at Drezen i am fighting demons with 15-25 saves, and I loot a weapon with a DC 15.

Other weapons abilities have the SAME problems. The best i saw was a DC 20

So the question is:

Is this issue (DC 15 vs saves 25) ONLY due to stats bloating of higher difficulties, meaning at lower diff that weapon is A LOT stronger?

Or is there something i am missing and, simply put, all weapons with special DC abilities simply suck?

[Fastbiter]

You already wrote an answer - Unfair difficulty. Enemy's stats are bloating without measure

[Cutlass Jack]

Its a stat bloat thing.

But even on Normal I never found those types of weapons worth equipping purely on that basis alone. They're okay if the weapon is useful otherwise to you.

[Lethoras]

Yeah they would be good on pen and paper Pathfinder... but not in this game where you consistently fight higher level enemies.

[Jiroa]

Almost every item that have a effect that needs a saving trow is useless on unfair.

[RedwoodElf]

Basically, all such abilities will only work 1 in 20 times. Everything will have saving throw bonuses of +20 or higher.

[Nito]

I would say they suck mostly because Owlcat simply refuses to add a way to enchant weapons yourself(considering that they added transmog to gear....)

[Nismu]

Abrupt force is pretty nice in early game even with low save it still does it on every hit so lands stun quite often

[MtvYoloSwag]

Yeah it's bad. Would have been a really simple fix if dc of spell/ability scaled with X stat, like Lore or Knowledge, even int/wis something like that.

[Cyrus]

Unfair is meant to be unfair, but in this game its closer to cruel. I don't think I have landed a single hit that uses saves above core. Only exception was banishment with specific builds.

They should buff them to use your mythic rank as a bonus, + proficiency with weapon type. Then they may be useful in some cases..... enemies get the grimdawn treatment here, where they are immune to most of everything