[Nanovelich]

I'd like that, potentials are really fun anyways, perhaps while in Shine Knighting, the Shine Sword itself becomes a casting tool for mercalan based spells.

Honestly, that benefit alone from Shine Knighting would be enough to convince me to switch to Shine Sword.

Part of the issue why Shine Sword gets such disregard is that you'd probably only want it with a Curate build or a Black Knight, but both promotions for Curate heavily entice players to get a spear if they weren't intending to use a tome, Priest especially so with God Rod as a factor. Meanwhile, Black Knight has plenty of better alternatives for something that's only going to provide extra damage based on Light Attack they probably don't have much of.

At least in my experience.