Weapon Balance.

[HeroSci]

Weapons aren't balanced at all Some are good, and some are bad. Really bad. Really wish they could do a balance pass.

[Zeddy]

The problem with brandish vs calibur is that split damage is inherently broken. The way end-damage works is most of the time doing (attack - defense). Defenses are split into damage types, which means this happens twice for split swords.

So with calibur, let's say the damage is:

300 normal damage
- 100 normal defense
= 200 damage

With brandish a similar tier of attack would need to be:
200 normal damage
+ 200 elemental damage
- 100 normal defense
- 100 elemental defense
= 200 damage

This gives both swords the same damage against a neutral enemy, but watch what happens when you apply max damage for a 24% damage boost:

Regular sword:
372 normal damage
- 100 normal defense
= 272 damage

Split sword:
496 normal/elemental damage
- 200 normal/elemental defense
= 296 damage

The split sword wins! But okay, that's like 9% extra damage which isn't a big deal right? The problem is that all of the swords attacks are a function of the basic attack. The third hit is 15% stronger than the main attack, the charge attack might be 40% stronger than that again, and so on and so on. That's why Levi's charge attack does a few hundred damage per charge hit while brandish is well in the thousands.

Here's a chart I compiled years ago:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/11myaO3o-cYxF-pX0ly6l_MRH54koq1XbkInRi0W5LRc/edit?usp=drivesdk

[a e s t h e t i c]

About weapons with split type of damage (even if love so much DA) they should deal only 1 specific type of damage. Also weapons with natural UV bonus like CIV, Cautery/Amputator, WHB, Deconstructor etc. should be much more powerful against specific families than weapons with elem/pierce/shadow type of damage.

[Batabii • Suikoden I&II HD]

It was even worse when they had weapons that had both Elemental and piercing damage

[Stret]

Publicado originalmente por Batabii - Jellybeans for hours:

It was even worse when they had weapons that had both Elemental and piercing damage

Dear god, it was hell...