With just one sword, you'd cover all posssible status, making the different brandish paths useless.

1) mixing a fire weapon with ice orb= super multi-status weapon/ grabbing a non-status powerfull weapon + orb= lots of power
2)get a flourish and you'll get the thrusts forward
3)teleporting will fail againts a lot of enemies(specially on T3)+the fact that you avoid their attacks could be considered overpowered

"it would be like a accessory for swords" Accesories are a cosmetic thing.

All i want to say instead of getting one weapon and change it's charge you could simply get a different weapon altogether and you'll be fine.
Each charge/status effect is balanced according to the weapon it belongs.

" anyway swords are kind of outranked by guns and bombs, this would even it up."

swords are not really outranked with their tempting high DPS. if there was to be this charge stone idea, it should be for all wepons so not just all the people walking around in full vog will benefit. for bombs there could be status, after detonations, increased knockback and soforth. Guns, mutiple projectiles, status, split, and rebound.

well gee...THX a lot....great way to promote weapon balancing and its gonna be so helpful to me, because since i have the MAD BOMBER set and i really only use swords and guns....(hope u noticed the sarcasm in there, if not, look at it for a good 5 minutes) Bombs dont even have a normal attk, they just have charge, so when you use a bomb, you are using its charge. Therefore, the CHARGE stones should apply for bombs too. Ive gotta say, bombs are the least used wepon among beginners, among more experinced players..im not sure. As i said before, thing the stones could give for bombs are: Status, after detonations (imagine...BOOM..boom boom, so small explosions after the initial detonation.), increased knockback, more range, and small suction before detonation(after the its planted enemies move ever so slightly towards the bomb, not as good as graviton)
So yeah, im just trying to protect me, and the other 1/8 of players who commited their time and money to get demo armour, and want in on this idea too

I see someone has been looking at the Diablo III runestones. It is a fun and interesting idea though :3

DiabloII and a hand full of other games use a Socket/Rune system to modify weapons, with a hard limit based on number of sockets and location on the item. Traditionally you would simply find weapons with bonuses, but sockets will let you purposely add a particular bonus via runes (which you need to find), or even extract them in some cases. In more high tech game lore this is usually done using non-linear part upgrades, with several parallel options.

It wouldn't. Like any mechanical change, some abilities are going to be better applied, or just plain better then others.

For instance... Fang of Vog is essentially a modified Calibur. But to offset the strong fire, you can actually set yourself on fire by using the charge attack. Same effect, but put that on a DA. Even without a full spin, the ability to set things on fire, push back, and deal damage all at the same time tips its abilities way out of proportion.

Same thing, only with a Triglav. Changing the effect from freeze to fire doesn't help it one bit.

The moral of the story is this. Adding a mechanical change won't make people want to be individuals. It'll actually worsen the situation since instead of having DA wielding wolvers all over the place, you'll have Flaming DA Wolvers all over the place. And god help you if you enable a 360 spin on ANY of the heavy swords.

you get three selections when you bind the weapon to you. Each option is unique to each weapon as so to avoid super-powered weapons.

I sense 5 possibilities here when you say swords are bad:

You are joking.
You are trolling.
You are a T1 player.
You have never touched a (proper)sword in your short life, and therefore can't make correct comparisons.
You are the worst swordsman ever and assume that all swords are fails because you can't use one.

Swords do way more damage than guns. For example I can kill a gun puppy very fast with my lvl10 vile striker. Using my lvl10 firo driver, it takes 5 or 10 seconds more to kill it. Another thing you fail to take into account is the fact that when you attack with a sword, you have a very high chance of interrupting the enemy's actions. (this does depend on the sword, though.) The vile striker may do pitiful damage per hit, but it does so many hits that if all of it's hits connect in one combo, you'll be doing more damage that a Gran Faust against jellies. The charge may be risky, but that's what makes it fun.

If you override the charge, you'll be making a mistake. Some swords have a crappy charge for a reason. This reason is that the sword's normal attacks/combos are good enough to warrant not needing a good charge. You have a sword with a good combo and then give it a good charge, and look at what you got: some killer swords and even more whiners asking for whatever object is needed for them because you can't have a good sword unless you can change it's charge.

I like the idea but I don't think Sizuki was very clear about it and people may be misinterpreting the idea. Here is how I am seeing it:

1. Charge stones modify a sword's entire charge attack, so for example if you put a charge stone on a DA instead of shooting out three swords on it's charge attack the DA might shoot out a circular explosion resembling the Brandish line's charge attack. (Depends on the charge stone you put on it)

2. Damage types for the charge attack are inherited from the sword you are using but status effects come from the particular charge stone. Admittedly this will make some statuses more desirable than others but isn't that already the case?

3. Charge times are defined by the charge stone.

4. I can imagine charge stones behaving differently depending on which class of swords you put it on. (i.e. Heavy, normal, fast)

Depending on how OOO balances the kinds of charge attacks that are possible to obtain I can see this as something that adds an interesting new element to the game. Might be even more interesting if you can swap charge attacks on the fly, can certainly make for some fun mayhem in Lockdown.

Like what others have been saying, this will make the game too unbalanced as:

I can take the strongest swords like DA, GF, Sudaruska, etc. They have great damage for they're normal strikes and then now you want to make they're charge better? If you want a certain charge attack, why not get that certain sword instead?

Plus I have read your previous comments and you are very biased toward the idea that swords are underpowered. That is not the case as almost everyone can agree that swords dish out the highest dps (Unless you have a huge mob like in the last room of an arena, where a bomb would shine, however most places aren't small+cramped as an arena).

Plus you say that swords can't get to guns immediately because of the gap. DURRRR its a melee vs a ranged weapon. Its supposed to be that way. Guns have the range advantage but swords should have the damage advantage. Bombs have mob advantage.

"you get swamped, your shield brakes, your stuck in the middle getting thworted"

So you're saying everyone else doesn't get that? An experienced play should try to avoid that situations at all costs. Sure gunners stay at a distance and are less likely to fall prey to such situations but bombers on the other hand get it too, as they run up to mobs to lay bombs. PLUS a full bomber stuck in a mob is pretty much dead compared to a swordsman who can still attack. Also, with gunners, there are those monsters who dodge projectiles. You don't see swords being dodged.

OR if you truly want this to be implemented, then if the charged can be improved, then the normal attack must be nerfed accordingly. So if you get a Gran Faust that can do the triple explosions of an Acheron, then a good nerf for the normal swing would be no knockback.