A. How long have you been complaining a out this for? xD
B. Sorry for that, it's just that most of your suggestions feel like a very good attempt at trash-posting.

Divine Avenger would COMPLETELY outperform Gran Faust as a heavy sword and nobody would craft the latter. Acheron would do EVEN MORE damage to beasts and fiends than Final Flourish. People would craft the elemental brandishes only for the charge attack. Fang of Vog would outperform all the elemental swords except Warmaster Rocket Hammer.

When you wrote this suggestion, you might've been drunk. If we're doing a competition for the worst suggestion ever you would certainly win with your suggestions.

Don't worry, you're not a terrible person, your suggestions for this game are though.

I think the split damage mechanic is balanced as it is, it's working as intended, most swords shouldn't be much weaker against resistant enemies compared to guns which offer way more safety at the expense of having pure damage being a lot weaker if you select the wrong gun for your situation. Swords are designed to be powerhouses of damage in a hack 'n slash playstyle, if you don't like it I suggest you play a different game where swords are all the same with only minor differences.
I don't think I understand what you mean by power creep and crutch.

Also regarding the discord, PM me on that my name is Geo, I believe I have you added already.

Sorry I can't express my opinion without sounding passive aggressive, that's kinda a part of who I am. Hence the name.

I'm a hardcore brandish single-switcher and I want them do to actual shadow/elemental damage, I rarely ever use the charge of Acheron I don't want to abandon it because it's good at what it does which is giving me a pure hack 'n slash experience. I'll tell you this one last time, this suggestion is entirely stupid and will just harm the community and would even make people quit cause the game would become boring and the UV's they rolled on some of the awesome swords would be as useless as these swords, also I charge my Voltedge a lot compared to Acheron, it's that I play both with it charge and normal attacks. If you think having the game being "balanced" like that it's just gonna become boring and almost all swords would be the same. I use Acheron because I don't usually use its charge but people who choose Obsidian Edge over it do use the charge and the normal attacks as well. Leviathan Blade and the troikas are designed to be all around doing good damage while the split damage types are designed to do great damage to some monsters, not too little to other monsters and decent to others. While the flourishes and Warmaster Rocket Hammer are designed for certain monsters doing great damage to some (not too great for flourishes to balance out their speed), decent damage to some and horrible damage to others because their playstyle is different. Levi is a starter sword, making all swords the same would just make people only use it especially with the damage buff you're suggesting, troika is designed to hit a lot of enemies at once with both the normal and charge attacks it can't get pure damage or it would be overpowered concerning its charge. You're just messing with the game's balance even more. I don't know how much I should keep going just to make you understand that this is a completely horrible idea in every way.

I only see the family specific swords as underpowered, they should have split normal + damage type the targeted family is weak against. Other than that I see brandishes and sealed swords as kinda balanced compared to troika and levi since they fill different roles and shouldn't be compared in most cases. As you see the levi and troika's charges taget a very large area so they should be used to hit more monsters at least if used right, brandishes and sealed swords hit less areas and they have more limits than the two other swords for example the explosions that come out can't cross caps and won't hit a stationary target multiple times while the sealed sword's charged swords can't spawn if you're close to a wall.

And yes, sealed swords do more damage and are faster than troikas but do they cover the same range? Each of them fill different roles and although they are comparable in these roles there are still specific scenarios where you'll want to pick the inferior one over the other like fighting tortos for example. Although these scenarios don't justify picking one over the other for the whole game there are still other reasons, maybe you like the charge better. Personally I only use my Voltedge's charge inside a vortex if there's no vortex I keep single switching it in close range or double switch it with storm driver. It's cause I use it mainly for its damage rather than the charge. And no, I don't use it anywhere outside of FSC because my Arcana and Storm Driver do a better job at killing stuff outside of a vortex without having to charge a lot which keeps me from being bored.

Another good example of using the inferior weapon would be arcade in general, you can be too lazy or maybe you're going in a place full of compounds or whatever and you don't wanna bring 2 different swords to save slots for your bombs and guns so you take a normal damage sword. I personally take Nitronome to fill that role while my other slots are usually Acheron and a blaster + something that I'm heating or Blitz.

Wait wut, I thought troikas had a bit more range on the normal combos, but well seems like I was wrong. Troikas still do more damage on the charges tho, on neutral targets at least, right? IDK but wait don't they do the same damage against neutral targets (I just looked at the wiki numbers)? Except that the suda charge might do more damage than Divine Avenger's. The Triglav can't be compared to them since it's usually used to lock enemies in place to deliver some hard hits rather than knocking them back or maybe crowd control I guess. Ok, so I haven't really used the troikas so that's just based on what I usually see. Also don't the troikas to more damage on stationary targets with their charge? If they have the same damage on neutral targets, and their charges are unique to their own why are you upset with them now? I can't really see any problem with it being like that. As I told you the only problem regarding swords IMO is the family specific swords not being powerful enough for their roles and normal weapons can actually out-damage them in most cases, they all look so much cooler than their superior variants, it's a waste that they don't perform as cool as they look TBH.

Wait, so you're saying that damage buffs buff split damage weapons more than pure damage ones? How so? If you mean against targets that are weak to the secondary damage type then it's fair but if the gross buff is more then that's unfair and should be fixed.

Also there are more factors to compare other than just damage, there's the wall glitch and monsters that dodge or shield against projectiles, and maybe you wanna target a specific area, etc... For example a suda charge would be.more effective on a mecha knight rather than a divine avenger charge or an elemental brandish charge despite them having the damage type advantage. You really shouldn't compare that aspect. Or you can just buff/nerf all charges to deal comparable damage ignoring the startup frames, reach, hitboxes, monster reactions and other factors that should be taken into account when comparing charges.

I thought troikas' charges were the strongest among swords on neutral targets TBH, seems like thinking that literally a mountain hitting you directly overhead doesn't do as much damage as a swipe from a holy sword. I think we can fix this problem by taking damage from the explosion it makes and put it into the swing, or better yet, buff the charge damage altogether.

Well, I didn't know they had more gross damage, in that case, why don't we just buff the normal damage weapons to do as much damage, on regular hits at least. I didn't know the charge of the suda was this weak cause usually it blows monsters completely out of the way and its hitbox looked enormous to me whenever someone used it. But it still has a massive amount of knockback, this might possibly balance out the damage.

But let's just put the charges aside for a sec and get back to the topic, so you say for example divine avenger has 6 elemental damage and 6 normal damage while suda has like 10 normal damage? Is that what you're trying to say? If that's it, it's probably of how weird defenses work in this game where monsters need to be hit with a certain amount of force and maybe any less won't do as much damage as intended? IDK anything about defense TBH it's so weird but I think it has something to do with that. If that's the case then just buff all the normal swords rather than nerfing all the split damage swords AND buffing the normal swords. The buff should be just enough to match the split damage weapons at max damage which means that troikas and Levi will have more damage without any damage bonuses against neutral targets, but when you add damage bonuses to the max the damage would be the same, basically making normal damage swords superior when it comes to new game or non chaos/black kat players. Thoughts on this?