Considering the main damage is piercing, a random charge that deals random damage is bad. It needs to do piercing.
What's the point if you're killing fiends and decides to do shadow or elemental?
Or rather, would anyone use a pierce weapon against a construct for a very small chance of doing elemental? No, they'll use a divine avenger instead.

Random status works with sealed, but no to random damage type.

I would love it if they just made a straight upgrade to sealed sword that still has the same charge attack (maybe a little more AOE) and type. It could be fun.

I would like to see hybrid Normal/Pierce on a weapon, much like what some push the Flourish to be.

This sword is described as a balance, not exactly neutral, but just both both evil and good in the same weapon. If that was the case, it should be a shadow/elemental hybrid weapon.

"Piercing Light" is not a bad idea, I just don't agree with it being on a large weapon type. A paladin uses a short sword in most fiction.

I have ALWAYS wanted the Sealed Sword's charge attack make it's way up to 5*.

"You do realize how broken the sword would be if it were both elemental and shadow right? It wouldnt make any sense if someone wanted shadow, or elemental when they could get both..."

It wouldn't be broken in a good way. It'd be a very specialized weapon, like the Antigua lines were before they got changed (AP line became pure elemental instead of elemental/piercing and Sentenza line became pure shadow instead of shadow/piercing). If this sword was elemental/shadow, then it would only do "crit" (orange) damage on Constructs and Jellies. Gremlins and Beasts would take weak (grey) damage because they resist the elemental damage; Fiends and Undeads, on the other hand, would take weak damage because they resist the shadow damage.

As for the piercing/normal version, I guess that could work. Maybe the aura of light around the blade could be spiky to represent the Piercing damage. But I can't help thinking that it would feel a bit odd to have a heavy sword dealing piercing damage. That's just my brain going derp though, I'd eventually get used to it :P The charge attack should be like the Sealed Sword's though, with status only or with normal and/or piercing damage. Like others have said, it'd feel pretty useless to have the charge explosion thing doing shadow damage to fiends or elemental damage to gremlins :s

The random damage would work on a normal weapon. I'd see it as a chance of dealing a critical hit when the types match.

But since the weapon starts with some piercing, you're already limiting it's area.

deku, constructs are found in almost every level. those resist piercing. also jellies, but those are kind not of a problem.
fact is, if you want it to be neutral, it has to deal neutral damage to all, which makes it normal.
also, slow sword against fiends and beasts make no sense.

any weapon with asi max relates to another scale of value. suda asi max on beasts anytime.

We get it, Deku. But most people will read the title and instantly think that neutral is referring to normal only instead of normal/piercing. Maybe change the title of the thread?

As for the fact that they made the Faust line even with a big chunk of the 5 star missions being mostly Undead themed, that's because SK didn't have the Missions until February of 2012. Before that, everyone did the Arcade only. Yes, most went for the gate that had Vanaduke, but they had to clear Stratum 5 before getting there so having a Shadow weapon to deal with Jellies or Gremlins came in handy :3 Same with Avenger line and OCH: OCH only came after the mission update, so people made the Divine Avenger to deal with FSC (Before the Brandish lines were changed to always have a set number of explosions; before that, the 5 star Brandishes varied between releasing 3, 4 or 5 explosions, I think).

I think the mathematics that would be used to calculate the charge are very awkward. If normal is given a base value then Piercing should get the random draws from normal so that it equals the chance of Shadow and Elemental. It is also very unlikely that damage calculations can allow more than 2 damage types. Perhaps the charge could do multiple hits with different damages assigned to each hit.

25% is not a very large amount to get a bonus off of, and normal damage is mediocre at best, which means the bonus would not be great enough to pay off. Yet at the same time I can imagine if the randomized element damage was higher in percentage, it would be so much of a gamble that people would rely on more consistent damage from other weapons.

If such a thing were to exist, I would rather it have a set damage type and the charge of the Sealed Sword with larger area.

LOVE IT!!!

Piercing AND normal damage? That's specialized and generic damage. You are giving the sword a massive upperhand over the others. Because enemies who are weak to piercing will resist part of the damage, you get reduced damage, but then the normal damage still does its 100% damage. You call this weapon neutral, and it has piercing damage. It was one thing for the AP to be super specialized, but this is a whole different level.

I'm using Pokemon to argue about the elemental/shadow weapon. If you look at Mega Charizard X, it's a Fire/Dragon type, meaning it would be weak to fairy and ice types, right? No, because the Fire is resistant to both, leading to regular damage. Then the same should apply to attacking Gremlins and Undead with the sword, regular damage as if they were hit by a troika.