Use best weapon skill

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Use Best Weapon Skill (UBWS) is an item property that is found on weapons. It was introduced with the Age of Shadows expansion.

It allows you to use the so-labeled weapon as long as you have a weapon skill, regardless of what it is. For example, the Blade of the Righteous artifact sword has this property, and thus can be used by someone with Fencing or Mace Fighting, as opposed to only Swordsmanship. Wrestling does not count towards Use Best Weapon Skill.

Skill points "gained" via the Use Best Weapon Skill property do count towards your ability to execute Special Moves (unlike those gained via the Mage Weapon property).

Archery

Archery is excluded from Use Best Weapon Skill. Though some bows spawned with the property shortly after the release of Age of Shadows, this was an oversight. A publish stopped the spawn of such bows. However the property remains on some already spawned. These bows are considered rare. It has been hinted that this may eventually be replaced with the Lower Ammo Cost property.

Items

Here is a list of artifacts and other items which have Use Best Weapon skill property.

• Captain Quacklebush's Cutlass
• Blackthorn's Kryss
• Blade of the Righteous
• Blade Dance
• Flesh Ripper
• Leafblade of Ease
• Talon Bite
• The Dragon Slayer
• The Holy Sword
• Pixie Swatter

Rares

These are rare items which were usually from special events.

• Carapace Crusher

See Also

• Item Properties

Item Properties
Stat modifiers	Strength (Str) · Dexterity (Dex) · Intelligence (Int) · Hit point (HP) · Stamina (Stam) · Mana
Regeneration modifiers	Hit point regeneration · Stamina regeneration · Mana regeneration
Hit effects	Dispel (HD) · Fireball (HF) · Life Leech (HLL) · Lightning (HL) · Lower Attack (HLA) · Lower Defense (HLD) · Mana Leech (HML)
Historic	Power (Pow) · Vanquishing (Vanq) · Newbified
Damage types	Physical damage (phys) · Fire damage · Cold Damage · Poison damage (poi) · Energy damage (ener) · Chaos Damage · Direct Damage
Magic-specific	Faster Casting (FC) · Faster Cast Recovery (FCR) · Lower mana cost (LMC) · Lower reagent cost (LRC) · Mage Armor · Mage Weapon · Night sight · Spell channeling (SC) · Spell damage increase (SDI)
Weapon-specific	Damage increase (DI) · Swing speed increase (SSI) · Use best weapon skill (UBWS)
Archery-specific	Balanced · Damage modifier · Lower ammo cost · Range · Velocity
Death- & theft-specific	Blessed · Cursed · No-Drop/No-Trade · Insured
Other	Artifact rarity · Enhance potions · Durability · Lifespan · Luck · Reflect physical damage · Self repair · Strength requirement · Uses remaining · Weight