One small flaw I've noticed in the some swords is how they do massive amounts of damage to things weak to them in PvE and in PvP. This can cause issues in PvE cause the enemies weak to them are very weak to them. It isn't balance, either, if they are crap against things strong to them. We can just use another weapon anyway. In LD, they do extensively more damage no matter what. (This is because, say, a FF will only be effected by the anti-piercing part of the jelly armor, while the rest gets by the normal defense. A brandish will be blocked by the elemental and normal parts of, say, a bomber suit.) There are four swords with just one damage type:

Fang of Vog (elemental)
Warmaster Rocket Hammer (elemental) (must be payed for)
Barbarous Thorn Blade (piercing)
Final Flourish and branches (piercing)

While I think it is good to have a few single damage type swords, I think it is good to have it limited to only one for each type. As for the ones that should go split norm, here are the reasons:

• Warmaster Rocket Hammer
  There are several reasons I think this needs a change. Being an owner of one, I've found it to be super-duper OP. It is speedy, "slow", and pure elemental. For !@#$%'s sake it's a hammer that is being flung at things! :P I think the crushing blows should be doing some damage, not just the exhaust.

  Also, this makes it really unique in T1. It is the only T1 item to do date that doesn't have any normal on it. This actually should be fixed, being that elemental resist is in very short supply in T1.

  (From this point on I had a browser hic-cup that caused me to loose everything from here. I need to go do somethings so I'm only going to quickly re-add what was deleted. Will refine later)

• Barbarous Thorn Blade
  Charge is better than FF. Snarbolax gets a normal telegraph on his attacks, so it makes more sense for this to be norm/pierce.

  FF is a bit worse than BtB because of the charge, so when comparing the two, it's not as OP.
  FoV is quite slow and it burns you.

  (Also there aren't any pure shadow swords at the moment.)