I love rapiers, they are really stylish with cool animations. Especially the trusty pig sticker, an old favorite. Of course, being lighter weapons, you expect them to do less damage, and that’s fine. But why do they have to generate so little focus compared to every other weapon?
I haven’t found a single one with more than 4 focus gain per hit, much like the gauntlets, while the average 1-handed straight or curved sword has 8, twice as much. Except that while gauntlets make up for that by having multi-attacks and being really fast, so that they get a lot of hits in and build focus very fast, rapier attack animations are hardly any faster than other 1 handed weapons. In fact, even the basic Blood Rusted Sword is faster, does more damage, and gains more focus, while also having unique run and dodge combos.
Since they rebalanced focus gain enchantments to work off the base weapon’s focus gain rather than a % of total focus like before The Breach, even with 120% focus gain you’re only getting 8 focus points per hit tops, which is terrible for the amount of investment it requires. Hell, the new wand weapons are faster, some going as high as 10 focus per hit, have longer combos and some even shoot free projectiles at the end. Like come on, throw us rapier users a bone too.
