Posted by Dusty

Technically sword damage goes up to 20(doing 10 hearts of damage) and can go down to -20(healing 10 hearts). And sword power is separate from the look of your sword(or at least it is now, there used to be a major glitch in the client...), so even with a golden sword, it could look like any other sword and still deal the damage.

Whether or not iClassic ever gets to the point where it would be balanced enough to introduce stronger swords, I can't say. I don't think it'd be fair to even introduce the lvl2 sword until players can obtain at least 6 hearts. Also right now it's pretty fair for new players to hop in and play. A newbie can log in, and still have a decent chance at fighting back against PKers. However, when more health and swords get added it becomes very easy to "pick" on newbies fresh out of the newbie area, which can negatively impact the opinion of newer players and turn them away.