Sigma & Octantis

The Sigma & Octantis is a sword and shield combo, available through the Daily Tribute system, as a reward for logging in for 700 cumulative days. This weapon features a special throw attack activated by tapping the melee button in mid-air, which throws the shield at an enemy, staggering them and opening them to finisher attacks for a brief period.

Characteristics
This weapon primarily deals damage.

Advantages:
 * Mostly damage, effective against Flesh and Infested Flesh.
 * High critical chance.
 * Decent status chance.
 * Good attack speed.
 * Higher than average critical multiplier.

Disadvantages:
 * Low damage, less effective against Armor.
 * The throw attack's stun can sometimes stagger enemies out of range of melee attacks, making it difficult to perform the finisher before the effect wears off (which already has a very short window of opportunity).
 * Throw attack's finisher window can be overwritten by almost all other animations or stuns (such as a Heavy Gunner's ground slam animation, or element proc stuns like or ), making it even more difficult to actually perform a finisher attack at all.
 * Throw attack seems to home in on the closest enemy, rather than the enemy being aimed at, making precise targeting difficult.
 * Slow finisher animation of the sword-&-shield type weapons makes the finisher attack cumbersome.
 * Additionally, many enemies do not have programmed finisher attacks for sword-&-shield type weapons at all, making the throw attack useless for more than the stun effect.

Trivia

 * Sigma & Octantis likely refers to the southern star σ Octantis (Sigma Octantis) whose position near the southern celestial pole makes it the southern hemisphere's pole star.