Talk:War/@comment-77.175.135.192-20151209191013/@comment-172.15.16.99-20151210014648

Yeah, how the hell could a greatsword be puncture? No really, that's a good question.

All the weapons that are melee puncture weapons in this game (and there are very few of them) are weapons you stab the enemy with. You don't hit them, you don't slash them, you straight-up stab them. When you're trying to pierce armor - clearly what a "puncture type" weapon is trying to do - then hitting it with a blunt edge or scraping across the surface of it clearly isn't the way to go. To puncture armor, you stab directly at it.

So how are you going to stab directly at a Lancer/Crewman/whatever with a sword that's longer tha your warframe is tall? Think about it. Real greatswords weigh in around 18-24 pounds, and those are 9-foot-or-less greatswords meant for display. If we start looking along the lines of a cavalry greatsword, we're looking at 15+ feet long and easily 35 pounds.

So try this at home: go find a 15 foot long lead pipe - which is hollow and weight less than HALF what a greatsword of the same length would - and try to slowly stab a pillow or something with it. Use a blunt pipe and do it slowly so you don't accidentally stab your stupid ass with the pipe. Did it? Did you survive it? Good. Now do it 50 more times.

Congratulations, you just cleared the lowest level exterminate mission on Merciry IRL. Good luck doing the 150+ enemy missions on Ceres with this insane method.

And that is why greatswords aren't puncture weapons. Even following DE logic, a puncture greatsword makes no sense.