Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27144409-20190627122349/@comment-36926079-20190821045748

Please Glitchee. Your weapon is clearly not meant to be a tonfa anymore, because your weapons are poor stabbers, cutters, and hackers, while real tonfas are good blockers that augment the user's attacks.

Think about it this way.

1) Melee weapons were around for milennia, right?

2) Only a few countries had specialized weapons like deer horns knives or danbong, making them not as effective without extreme training in a particular skill as standard knives or weapons because they fill a small niche, right?

3) When you make the tonfa bladed, you take the tonfa's niche- blocking and striking- and replace it with poor cutting, hacking, and stabbing abilities, right? (see earlier posts for details)

4)Therefore, your character can only use it like a really bad sword, right?

5)From this we can conclude, that the most reasonable way for your character to survive a beowulf, let alone a nevermore or something, is by either removing the blades, or having your character use a sword with an actual handguard.

I'm mostly fine with unrealistic weapons are fine if they fulfill a purpose and somewhat have a way of mitigating problems, like Phantom's hardlight rapier. I didn't like it, but I saw it as a potentially useful weapon with a weird blade launching feature.

Good weapon: Ember Celica. It serves to protect Yang's arms when striking, augments her punches with shotguns, seemingly has a ton of ammo, provides mobility, and blinds her enemies with the resulting explosion.

Bad weapon: Flynt's weapon denies area. The thing is, it requires constant upkeep and a killer lung capacity, making it poor for area denial, all without providing a melee form or gun form to defend himself with.

Worst weapon: Reese's hoverboard weapon is slow as hell, the user is easily knocked over, it requires constant balance, doesn't do enough damage, and the guns are useless. It doesn't fulfill its role of mobility or damage.

Your weapon- Poor (Tonfa form)

Assuming your weapon is meant to fulfill a quick damaging role rather than one mixing defense, fluidity, and power, you get a weapon that is bad at attacking and defending when used like a 'tonfa' and a weapon that also has bad attack and defense when used like a sword.

The one thing the weapon's bladed tonfa form gets close to right is dexterity and mobility, and even there, it is met or exceeded by most swords and polearms under eight feet.

Stick with the kama/polearm forms. At least those work.