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Phantomlink959 wrote: It's definitely a better support tool than it is a weapon. Cool though hard-light may be it isn't the most practical material for weapon construction. It lacks mass for blunt weapons and is motly inferior to plasma as a cutting implement.

In RWBY terms I'd personally say it works best as a tool for shaping Dust into the form you want it to take rather than as an independant weapon. Though the Hammer gives the User a weapon to use so it's not like he doesn't have an option of defending himself