It's rather annoying how this weapon handles compared to the newer and better weapons. I mean, I do like the stats. 15% Crit and 15% Status is pretty great but with Damage as low as 35 Electricity this weapon really has no use.
I made a rather stupid promise to my friend. I jokingly promised for me to make Plasma Sword my most used melee weapon. I've used Plasma Sword in low to high leveled missions and racked up well over thousand missions with it. And Plasma Sword is so horrible it makes almost all of the melee weapons to look great.
The problem is the Damage. Even if I could get a huge combo going with Blood Rush it still fails to deliver enough damage compared to some other melee weapons. There are melee weapons that do not deal Crit nor Status and still perform better than Plasma Sword. It's so bad it starts to be funny.
What I do like about the weapon is how it feels like a hybrid weapon. With Corrosive damage type and using Blood Rush and Weeping Wounds it is still rather underperforming weapon. Sure, it will debuff armor away and deal Crits later on but it's still not enough compared to the weapons that can do this right from the first hit.
So while I think they will never buff this particular weapon I would love to see a Plasma Sword Vandal and/or different kind of Hybrid weapons in the game. You know, the ones that can deal both Crit and Status but aren't as broken as, say, Euphona Prime.