Yes, you're right, I forgot to mention that I am playing the game second time round. Blackrazor is only available right at the end of the game and there's really only one battle that you can use it in and you have to make a pretty big sacrifice to get it. You have to make evil choices to get it, but your alignment doesn't have to be evil. It is damn useful in that final battle (i was an evil swashbuckler dual wielding it with the Equalizer.
Anyway I liked it so much I had to have it second time around (one little cheat for my second trip through Amn!). Those combat bonuses I had are cumulative so if you hit and get hasted, drain 4 levels, heal you by 20 hp and add 3 to your strength, the fact that you are striking twice as fast means that you really have twice as much chance the second time around of scoring another special hit which can cause these bonuses to accumulate pretty quickly. At one stage my swashbuckler who had a normal strength of 16 had a str of 25 and I was healed of 60 hp of damage, all within 20 secs. Second time around I'm finding that it has the potential to really unbalance the game if it was available earlier but in that final battle, with the critters you have to fight, it really helped. You can really ■■■■ Irenicus up with it, pardon my French.
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