I and many others would prefer Gran Faust to remain a pure normal damage weapon. It kinda sucks to no longer have a normal damage variant for the Sealed Sword line, even if its "not optimal" or whatever, having the option outright removed without anything taking its place is annoying. We really don't need more shadow/curse weapons, Every single curse weapon does shadow damage.
It is not as if Gran Faust is widely considered the worst shadow damage weapon, so making it a normal damage weapon would make it shine all the brighter compared to it's competition! Imagine having the ability to choose between Leviathan Blade, Triglav, Sudaruska, Dread Venom Striker, Turbillion, and Gran Faust! (All great weapons, that are all extremely viable in their own right!) As we all know, Normal Damage Swords are some of the best weapons in the game, and could desperately need some more gameplay variance between the various extremely STRONG options.
as to all of you people who wanted Normal/Shadow DVS? too bad! There's already a great weapon for you (Obsidian Edge) which covers every single need you have for Shadow + Poison goodness!
That is a fantastic idea! If slowly removing normal damage weapons is not the solution to normal damage being underpowered, the actual solution is to remove all the special damage from the game.
And think of it this way too, you could have so many normal damage options to choose from, like I could choose from the Valiance, Arcana, Phantamos, and Riftlocker, and what would be different about them? They are different colors and make different noises!
I am honestly in disbelief that they would ruin normal damage by splitting it with shadow for the Acheron and Obsidian Edge. Even though this makes the weapon better in every way, I cannot stand behind removing normal damage's simplistic nature right from it. Honestly, we need to remove the elemental damage from the Combuster, Glacius, Voltedge, and Fang of Vog too.
Normal damage is the only way to save people from leaving, so we should embrace it firmly.