Of all the weapons in the history of humanity, the graceful Rapier has to be my favorite. And in AO, it’s in the worst weapon category.
There are 4 thrusting weapons, you know how many of them are good? None of them.
They all can only have their own moves, which can also be used by other bladed weapons. The exception is Lance of Loyalty, which can have two more self-explosion moves, even though it already has one.
Why is it such a third-class weapon? Katanas and Swords literally have the exact same move pool, and you’re telling me, another kind of medium-sized sword, can’t have even ANYTHING else?
Even almost every other weapon with a blade can use Shining Cycle, which is like, the only good move thrusting has.
In conclusion, suck my swordfish for how you treated rapiers.
I LOVE the Rapier as a concept; light, swift, and easy to use. Problem is that it was good until the Weapon Customization update both put it in the hospital and took its life support. I don’t know why it can only use its natural skills even though it could easily have Bladed or some Katana skills with how it’s used.
The Rapier’s existence is why I’m mixed on Weapon Customization; it made some Weapon types entirely irrelevant or worthless. Is the Rapier’s unique grab really worth having to the point of dedicating a full Weapon slot to it? Why should I ever use a Staff if Polearm weapons get both of its skills? I feel like the only logical Weapon setup is one that can use as many skills as possible, which is really limiting.
can someone please explain to me why the thrusting weapons can’t learn sparrow thrust??? The lance of loyalty has the PERFECT shape for the skill and yet for some stupid reason it can’t be forged onto the bloody thing, honestly, weapon customization was definitely the laziest update by far, so much wasted potential, and extremely obvious weird things like this not being implemented.
yeah i was confused by that, along with how polearms cant learn piercing strike and thrusting weapons cant use polearm impale or whatever it was called (come on, the weapon designed for stabbing people cant use the move that stabs people for seconds at a time?)
Aside from everything that benefitted me in that update it was an absolute travesty, I don’t know anything about development but I really don’t understand how some animations can prevent all of the customization that update could have brought, but simply didn’t
I’m crossing all of my fingers that eventually somebody can make animations for weapon skills that will make some weapon types worthwhile again. Even then, unless I’m remembering wrong, the Rapier is used with the same hand as every other bladed weapon, so that wouldn’t have been an issue with giving it more skills.
