[Kazzy]

Honestly I'm fine with them keeping 70/40 scaling. Kensei is in a position where, no matter what you build, you want a buttload of SKI to hit, and STR is the sword stat. The problem is that Katanas just don't scale as well as most every other sword, AND Kensei punishes you for not using a katana by tapping you with 4m/skill.

An alternative might be to give Katanas better floor stats to compensate for their iffy scaling. A problem that most every weapon with an interesting effect suffered before the great rescale. For the most part, that's no longer true. But Katanas don't seem to have gotten the memo- particularly when you consider that most of their potentials don't even work for classes that aren't Kensei.

Take, for example, that Spine Leash (considered by many to be a Best in Slot Sword), has 70/40 scaling on top of not one, but two interesting effects. 10% resistance to X is alright, and most of the potentials are either sheathe memes or . . . .Sheathe memes. Most of which amount to 'Drop X tiles, change to Y damage'.


So I suppose what I'm getting at is 'It wouldn't be so bad if Katanas were more interesting' and if they worked for classes that weren't Kensei blends. The elemental attack is NICE. . .But even the non-elemental katanas are kind of wishy-washy. Particularly when you compare them to the competition of Spine Leash or Shine Sword or Narcus.