I have a couple of other friends who occasionally bring Iron Slug. Tohlevi is one of them, but I can't remember the other.

I have more friends with CIVs than Levis. (Not counting Honour Blade.) It actually seems fairly popular just for its looks.

For Cautery Sword, I only have a couple of friends with those. They're both deliberately being hipsters.

@Mtax yeah... I stole one from Eury, though we don't talk about the day of no monsters. XD

@Zeddy... really? never seen anyone use Cautery or Cold Iron. Huh.

didn't think of that. Huh.

...I did accidentally do a run in Blazebreak Armor once.
I was wondering why it wasn't showing up as my costume.
Also, why my damage was so pants.

e.e
I've seen all of the mentioned weapons in use, with the exception of Scissor Blades and Darkfang Shield - which is understandable, given the rarity of said items. And even then, I have seen both items equipped (although not at once); one of my former guildmates bought one of the first Scissor Blades, and I met Daniz a couple of times on shield-hunting runs.

@Scrillicks That last post made my eyes hurt.

@Hadesrebellion Are you being sarcastic or not? You've listed a combination of popular and hipster gear there.

I saw someone bring Scissor Blades on a Save Winterfest run. Before that I've only seen a GM with one.

I think my guild is full of hipsters, I've seen a lot of weapons mentioned used (one guy likes using Cautery Sword in LD)

Actually, since I started Spiral Knights, I have yet to see one that uses the pepperbox/fiery/volcanic other than me. Hmm. I also am aiming for plague needle, Winmillion, and Fearless Rigadoon. Really, I am a collector of "least commonly used" equipment. Not sure why people shy away from them. My most commonly used sword is Levi asi medium, and that is the same caliber I got so about a year ago. My first 2 star sword, really. So I have grown used to strafing and charging enemies. Like ripping the face off of a slag on my buddy, or OHKOing a turret. I don't "charge spam", obnoxiously blasting lumbers into my party mates.
Wait. this is about Vpepper. Well, I use it pretty often, and the normal attack does just fine, since is interrupts scuttles, jellies, chromas, and sometimes gremlins. Then I retreat, charging. Then, I blast them in the face. Who needs more damage when you OHKO guys anyway? Vana. Really, I think that Vanaduke should be resistant and weak to none, 'cept of course in the last stage.
Vanaduke should be neutral to all kinds of attacks, so it does not punish those who go for the Acheron as badly, and realize that they have a stupid twig that looks like a Japanese sword. Really. This would also demote clones, and I think that blitz should deal about 25% less damage to Vanaduke. I suggest this because when soloing, Vanaduke has approximately 15638 health in stage one, 3754 health in stage two, and at least 18029 helalth in stage three. Blitz charges deal 4035 (good against) damage. That's a lot. 25% would bring it down to 3026. Not bad when compared with 2660 damage with plague.

We can discuss the rarity of Darkfangs then.

...Thou darest to misspell mine name?

..../cry

THE PEPPERBOX (I've never used it) IS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@Scrilliks: Come on, join the Plague Party. You know you want to.
Also, is that 2.6k with or without taking strong poison into account?
I have a Flamberge too, but it only really gets used for LD purposes because I thought 'sod having Swift Flourish and Twisted Snarble Barb, I wanna be hisptr in t2'.

One time, I ran through T1 with some people, then brought them to T2 and armed them with wrench wands. It was awesome.

More than half the gear that people don't use is more than viable and is simply unpopular due to the nature of players wanting to make "safe crafts" and thinking that a certain line of gear is the "good" line of gear. Plague needle is not one such item- sometimes I use it just for kicks, but blitz is better than it in every conceivable way. Unless you bring it with blitz, but then thats just for kicks and to show off for fun. It really needs a buff to it's normal attack (to have more bullets and less damage, for more poisoning)

Pepperbox is a genuinely fun item that people don't understand and don't use. And I don't get why, other than that it seems underwhelming (even if it isn't so much.)

The garbage 3*/winmillion gear makes little sense to me. Heavy deconstructor is slightly better than that crowd, but not by much if at all. I've heard all kinds of theories about them, and even more on how to improve them.

Iron slug is also in need of a huge buff, as is callahan. I use a magma driver for devilites, and sentenza for beasts when gunning them. There are callahan fans, but I am not one of them. I do use the iron slug quite often though, just for the sake of killing things with an expensive yet crappy weapon. And I cancel turrets. Fun.

Flamberg is disappointing. Same with rigadoon. I suggested to buff it, but people like the idea of having 2 useless weapons for some reason. I don't get it.

And I've tottaly got the above poster beat on hipster gear lol. I've got a full plate set, one piece of chaos (which isn't hipster), scarlet shield, royal jelly shield, ironmight plate shield, the elemental defense hat owlite thing and then some. And weapons. I've got a few (all of) the ones that he mentioned and a few more after that.

If Darkfang was commonly available, it'd be a hipster shield for being dead-end at 4*.