Any reason not to use a sword AND lightsaber?

[=CrimsoN=]

Aside from the fact that lightsabers get more upgrades and stuff. I like using swords because I feel like they are an often wasted weapon even though some of the swords in the game are really good swords. But I still want to use a lightsaber for stuff like blaster bolt deflection.

Any reasons not to aside from what I just mentioned? I really want to use stuff like the Genoharadan poison blade or Sith tremor sword. They might be weaker than a fully upgraded lightsaber, but they often do weird stuff like the Genoharadan using poison, and being melee they all do physical damage which cuts right through shields unlike lightsabers which do energy (unless they have crystals to do physical).

I did this in KOTOR 2 for my Jedi Sentinel and he was a one hit killing machine by the end of the game. Never tried it in KOTOR 1 and I haven't seen anyone else whose tried it either.

[Cookie]

I've wanted to do a brutal Sith vibroblade build, but lightsabers just get too many insane bonuses, plus blaster deflection. Energy shields never last long anyway when your expected late game lightsaber damage per round gets over 100.

[=CrimsoN=]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Cookie:

I've wanted to do a brutal Sith vibroblade build, but lightsabers just get too many insane bonuses, plus blaster deflection. Energy shields never last long anyway when your expected late game lightsaber damage per round gets over 100.

True true. It worked better in KOTOR 2 where you could create your own upgrades. Lightsabers were still superior, but not too much when you can apply some pretty sick upgrades to some pretty awesome melee weapons. Not as easy in the first KOTOR.