Dueling Sword Nerf

[Murderer]

@Reginald

Its worse than that. A lot of people were like ‘why not buff everything else’ and the reason is simple - a weapon that nears the ideal weapon doesn’t leave much room for meaningful choices. I’ve been trying to figure out how to explain for a while and I think I will use my funny graph again.

The DS4 is almost a perfect weapon. It has like one half of a downside. If you buff everything to the same degree then all weapons will be nearing the grey line. The more you squish them to the top the less meaningful diversity there will be. When the thunder hammer has 5 dodges and no-self stun and the same swing speed as the dueling sword (all objectively better traits) then they’re barely even different weapons at that point. Why care? Why pick anything over anything else? it’ll all feel the same and be the same.

Optimization is the enemy here. Thus weapons must have positives and negatives in order to be part of a fun and dynamic range of weaponry and nothing should land too close to the grey line too consistently or it’ll just be “the best.”

From this good post on it by Reginald