Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-27082610-20170205050026/@comment-26397825-20170428035616

Phantom...they're still under 6ft in length and wouldn't weigh 70lbs. They're big and heavy, but they're not 4 times the weight of the heaviest sword.

It's not that it's big and heavy. It's that it is too heavy. Drop it back to say, twice the weight (so 16kg/35lbs) and it's more viable.