It just went from junk to something not completely disappointing to receive as a (pre)crowning gift, and you already want to nerf it?

I didn't mean to say returning is a problem in itself but there never existed any returning weapons before that you'll never fail to catch. I suspect this is a bug.

If it seems too powerful, I'd prefer to have the damage toned down a little rather than increasing the rate of return failure. I haven't tested yet, so I don't know for sure that this is necessary. I mean, is it really stronger than, say, throwing the RCT?

As far as I tried throwing the trident, my impression was it will work maybe 4 times if your dex is good and then fail. (Please correct me if I'm wrong, because I didn't try it much.)

It can fail in two ways: it can fail to return and you can fail to catch it.

With True Aim, one of these never happens and the other rarely. From what I saw, it seems you will on average shoot about 30 - 50 times before you need to retrieve it. To me it does seem much better than RCT.

edit: I tested RCT with the same character and now it looks like you will never fail to catch that, either. So this should be a bug report that isn't about True Aim but about all returning weapons. I edited my post and the title. Sorry for the confusion.

Sounds like a feature, IMO. Have you tried with non-artifact weapons? Dagger of Returning? Boomerang?

My memory is that catching is Dx dependent. Greater than 25? means 100%?

I think it depended on Dx and Luck, but I recall that during testing, a character with 99 Dx, +Luck +Fate, ankh and two rings of luck still failed to catch a spear of returning after many tries.

I had only 22 dex, so it should have failed now and then.

Remember that is's an alternative to, say, Far Slayer. Do you really rate it higher than this one?