Langrisser II/Weapons

Weapon notes
The Langrisser can only be used by the Descendants of Light. When it is powered up by Riana and Larna the bonuses are higher (numbers in parentheses).

The x2 experience bonus from the Masayan Sword doesn’t effect the end of scenario bonus. Masaya is the company that made Langrisser, and the logo described is indeed their logo. Despite its negatives, this is one of the best items in the game. Favor whoever wields it by feeding them experience, and switch it off between characters in between missions. The cumulative effect is enormous.

The heavy penalties in exchange for the ranged attacks of the Longbow and Arbalest is kind of a let down. In fact, the highmaster and ranger classes in general were a bit of a letdown. You should probably give the swordmaster a devil axe then promote so you can have a highmaster with a decent attack rather than go with either of these.

Bugs
One interesting bug for this is if you give the Masayan Sword to a character whose attack bonus is less than 2, the game will interpret the -1 as a +55. This has no real application unless you're using the secret shop code, since by the time you can get this blade legit your characters will all have well above +2A.