Talk:Zaw/@comment-172.249.120.51-20180411005021/@comment-193.184.172.10-20180414145850

Well, they are content that is somewhat interactive unlike regular weapons. That's worth a lot. Then they are essentially Orokin materials, pieces of sentients and so on. If you want a weapon that absolutely destroys everything while being essentially impervious to damage you use a heavy, sharpened slab of steel, not a Katana. The crude, heavy, semi bludgeon like sword is a lot more versatile than finesse swords are. Katana is what you use when you need to specifically cut flesh or equivalent and all the hits the weapon takes are from it cutting it's target. You don't have to believe me, you can check this from youtube where you'll find many videos about this subject.

The problem is not that they are not on the level of regular weapons and thus are more popular than vast majority of blades and such that existed before them. The problem is that they do not look particularly good. The coloring is....off. Just made a staff that is so damn hard to make nice looking that it's ridiculous. Most of them are not end game viable because of that. None of them are as good as Aterax, so no, they are not too good in game terms either.