Playing on Medium, Pro-Scoiatel, the sword was there (and boy, was I surprised to see the best sword in the game just randomly lying about, and the king´s reward sword being utter crap compared to it).I get the feeling that Precise Hit only works when you´re using Group, Pain only works when using Fast, Bleeding only on Strong - but don´t know of the others.In any case, I feel it´s worthwhile to carry two blades around, one with lots of +pain and precise hit (Gwalhir, and am hoping to find one more yellow meteorite piece in act 5 to make an even better blade) for group work, and the Rune Sihill for hard targets. And boy, was I glad that "Excalibur" was a silver blade...