Talk:Sydon/@comment-108.87.117.137-20160110154807/@comment-24856325-20160110181351

I don't speak for everyone but the problem that people seem to have with the Sydon is the fact that it isn't what it supposed to be which is to be a spear melee weapon.

Another problem is that it's suffers from Dual Raza Syndrome where it tries to be a variant of an already existing weapon but it ends up being outclassed by those already existing weapons (I'm pretty sure if people wanted to build a status Polearm, they'd most likely pick the Serro due to it being an Electric weapon which can be combined with elemental mods to create desirable status effects like Corrosive and because of this, the Serro has more consistency with status procs than the Sydon) and it's quite expensive (Just look at its research requirements and its manufacturing cost doesn't do it any favours).

To summarize, this weapon isn't bad by any means, it's just mediocre at best and it's outclassed as a status Polearm by the Serro or even the Tonbo, both of which are far cheaper than the Sydon.