My acid test is usually to imagine answering the inevitable questions that will pop up on the newbie channel. I've read your original post twice and I'd still dread all of that. Beyond that, it looks pretty ugly to code, particularly all of points where you have to check several steps ahead to know a result. The existing wield code is extremely complicated as is.

One big perk to the current system is that assuming you're willing to do a little 'try and see' pairing, the command syntax is easy to remember and use.

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