It really is fine. Actually regular weapons are still more powerful than tenebrium in many cases, especially because you can craft them, so they can be :-
- sharpened for lots of extra damage
- added tenebrium damage by adding a bar to them
- also have elemental damage
- add str and DX from tormented souls
- I probably forgot some other things.
I hardly used tenebrium. It doesn't require you to throw a hissy fit. You can still win, easily, every fight with regular weapons. That said, you get plenty of points, and there's so much levelling it's easy to get plenty of levels in tenebrium if you want to.
You don't buy the tenebrium weapons from the Sacred Stone trader, but just use whatever weapon you like, upgrade it and use Tenebrium on it and now they will use your tenebrium skill instead of your weapon skill:
For example: legendary lvl 16 bow with all upgrades 111-191 +33-57 fire +33-57 tenebrium:
displayed damage
Bow 0 Tenebrium 8: 299-517 dmg
Bow 1 Tenebrium 8: 299-517 dmg
Bow 0 Tenebrium 7: 288-496 dmg
