[Fern]

This is primarily a roleplaying game and not intended to be an eSports PVP game, which leads me to think people shouldn't always be ICly knowing what a weapon mechanically is going off the visual effects only to begin with (they'll do it anyway), if someone really wants to know if the ""sword"" the person is using is actually a tome they can just right click examine and it'll tell them even in battle.

Besides, nothing is really stopping people from putting on concealment and renaming their salamander sword to golgorth while having mask of metal on as is, there wouldn't be any notorious difference.

The youkai part is more problematic than the weapon one is because there's circumstances where you are very incapable of double clicking such as an overlay going over the youkai icon, at least if you want to take a guess at what gear the person is running it's as easy as right clicking > examine or getting hit by a basic once, no matter the circumstances. It's how people would make sure somebody was using a sword instead of a custom tome "sword" in mainland days and it worked fine most of the time.

Honestly, people being so sweaty in PVP as to try and masquerade their weapons in a maliciously misleading way sound less like they're roleplaying and more like they're playing for ego points. At that point they should get brought up to GMs which people can just DM one and mention that the person is doing something fishy, and if they're actually doing something bad they'll just get requested to stop. The minority being goofy is not enough of a reason to stop others from having more fun and interesting things. I agree with Miller.

If it's too big of a concern then debug mode can just tell you the weapon as Lolzy suggested, but I personally don't think it's that necessary. The concerns are understandable, but there's no major negatives from implementing a change like this because all of the described problems will be the same regardless of whether it's added or not.
 
The other thing is that a lot of the things already existing in the game, such as aliases, faceicons and even chat colors can be (on paper) used maliciously, if we refrained from adding new things because someone could use it in a bad way, then we wouldn't really having much of the fun things. Imagine if Dev didn't add new chat because he thought people would be evil with the colors, or aliases because he thought someone would be a clown. (And we do get both of these situations, people being evil with colors and clown with aliases, but the pros have far outweighted the cons.)