Talk:Myrtenaster/@comment-96.8.204.173-20150719053619/@comment-25555436-20150719130703

@OP: Dude, your lack-of knowledge of weapons is outstanding. I'm impressed.

Like the other anon said, Rapiers can't detach limbs. They are designed to thrust, not to slice like katanas or slash like swords, much less hack like axes, and while you can perform slashes with a Rapier, the damage done is way too minor to be any useful. And as Game of Thrones and many documentaries have shown, trying to use a Rapier against heavy armor will get you a stuck-in-armor blade, and a slap on the face. So nope, it doesn't thrust through anything. It's designed for elegance and grace, not real combat against armored enemies.

In case you don't remember, Myrtenaster never actually went edge-to-edge with neither the chainsaw (which wasn't giant at all) and the broadsword. Weiss went full retard with the latter and made nothing but slashes at first, despite the Rapier sucking at that, which leads to the Knight not even flinching and punching her face. She only won when she used Dust, and made a thrust.

With the former, she didn't use the Rapier to defend herself, she used Dust to form a shield. My point: the Rapier never even fought the broadsword nor the chainsaw, and by that I mean they never clashed against each other, because if it did, Myrtenaster would shatter ar worst, lose at best.

Myrtenaster is definitely tougher than the average Rapier, but is still a Rapier. While it deserves credit, you are glorifying it.

Also, Rapiers are not really the conceptual ancestor of any bladed weapon in the past 3 centuries. Heck, from the 1700 and up, and even back in the 1500, people didn't use Rapiers for real fights. The closest thing to them are the Cutlasses, which people did use because it did have more practical uses than Rapiers in real combat. Other than Cutlasses, people used polearms, and daggers or knives, before guns became widely-common and actually-practical.