Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-26397825-20160424135023/@comment-25936766-20160520194631

VedranTheII wrote: Not a star wars saber I’ll tell you that. A laser blade would not be able to block anything. Hard Light. Just apply Rule of Cool to it like everything in RWBY, use Atlas as an excuse, you got enough HardLight to block at least some things.

Alternatively, using Kinetic like you said to achieve the same. Though in this case, I feel it's less a lightsaber and more a light baseball bat.

Also, considering a laser blade, combined with RWBY's adherence to RoC, could cut through nearly everything, being incapable of blocking with it and having insane Dust consumption sounds more like a reasonable balancer. Otherwise, it would be way too OP.

Perhaps give such weapon to a villain. "Monetary issues" wouldn't be as much of a problem.

PS: In the process of making this, I thought: How about a RWBY Thermal Lance? We already got these things in RL, after all.