A question about stats on weapons

[Jabberwork]

Do all stats from all weapons one character has equipped add to the total amount or is it affected in another way. Because when i look on my characters in my equip screen it shows the stats without the bonus stats from the weapons.

[Flo]

You only gain stats from the weapon currently in use (held in hand on your character in battle).
Except for magic : spells always use the weapon with the highest magic atk.

[Sakhari]

For most stats, only the weapon that you currently have selected in combat will add to your total so, for example, if you start a fight with Therion and he defaults to a dagger, the dagger stats will apply until you select something else. If you use a physical attack that requires a specific weapon (a spear for Thousand Spears, for example), the stats for that weapon will be applied on the attack.

Exceptions:

- Your Elemental Attack stat - when you use an elemental ability, the attack stat from your highest Elem. Attack weapon will apply.

- The follow-up elemental attacks from the Runelord abilities use the Elem. Attack stat of the weapon that landed the first hit.

[Vahnkiljoy]

Originally posted by Nyaru:

You only gain stats from the weapon currently in use (held in hand on your character in battle).
Except for magic : spells always use the weapon with the highest magic atk.

You sure about that with spells? I can see a drastic difference on my casters when i forget to swap to their spell weapon.

[Sakhari]

Originally posted by Vahnkiljoy:

You sure about that with spells? I can see a drastic difference on my casters when i forget to swap to their spell weapon.

Unless you're talking about healing spells (which scale off of Elem. Defense and not your weapons) or the elemental "Pursuit" attacks from the Runelord abilities, yes. What he said is correct. Standard elemental attacks will use your best Elem. Attack weapon and you shouldn't ever need to manually switch. I've tested this several times with Cyrus using a Rune Glaive (spear) and Makeshift (unequipped) staff - the damage of a spell was the same with either one selected in combat.

If you're seeing different numbers between weapons, it probably has something to do with buffs, weaknesses, a broken target, or some other outside factor.

[Kezo]

Your characters do automatically switch to the weapon with the highest spell power when using a spell, they are not simply using the stats from the weapon.

[Goblin King]

Originally posted by Sakhari:

For most stats, only the weapon that you currently have selected in combat will add to your total so, for example, if you start a fight with Therion and he defaults to a dagger, the dagger stats will apply until you select something else.

If you cast a spell and have a Dagger with a bonus to evade, do you always get the bonus? Or do you have to manually switch the weapon to the dagger before you cast the spell?

[Sakhari]

Originally posted by Guillaume:

If you cast a spell and have a Dagger with a bonus to evade, do you always get the bonus? Or do you have to manually switch the weapon to the dagger before you cast the spell?

If you use an elemental attack, your character switches to your highest elem. attack weapon for the remainder of the turn but switches back to whatever you had selected at the beginning of their next turn.

So in your case, if you had a dagger with high evasion selected but another weapon had the highest elem. attack stat, you'd lose the evasion after casting until the start of your character's next turn.