And it does serve a purpose: giving weapons cool, flavorful, and importantly limited usage/small effect abilities. Of all of Larian's homebrew, this is one of the best in terms of coolness-to-OPness ratio.
Coolness is fine; but make the characters cool, not the weapons. Most of Larian's homebrew is about taking cool things that maybe a character could do and instead baking it into an item.
