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Hidden Scorpius XI wrote:

1-Myrtenaster. This weapon's main feature is the ability to wield Dust for elemental attacks. Then what's the issue? It is a "game-breaking" weapon, since it can use any from Fire, Ice, Lightning and Wind dust. The same main elemental skills from the latest Persona Games. If she could use any of those elements, she'd tip-off the team's balance. Plus, would render her use of a Persona void.

2-Then, there's Crocea Mors, which would make Jaune limp behind in terms of progression after everybody has been on the same terms. 1-You could just replace Dust with something else. For example, in the Raidou Kuzunoha games, since he's just a normal(ish) man, he cannot use actual spells. Instead, he uses elemental bullets. So you could make Weiss capable of firing weak elemental projectiles with it, doing the job against mooks, yet nowhere close to a real spell from a Persona in terms of power.

Either that, or....Option 2: you take the simple route which follows the show. You see, Weiss's Myrtenaster has Dust, but Weiss doesn't shoot the Dust from her weapon, she uses her Semblance for that. Myrtenaster can channel the Dust on the blade for elemental attacks, different from actual spells. If you take Option 2, it's the same as Physical attacks with Elemental properties, and given Weiss's strength, it's nowhere near broken.

2-It did slice off an Ursa Major's head in a single slash though, and Jaune isn't really pretty strong ATM, much less back then. So, you could balance it by making the weapon pretty powerful in sheer damage. Similar to Naoto in P4; Mediocre strength at best, but her weapons had so much Damage, that strength was meaningless.