Because the current cutter lines are very lackluster. Dealing only normal damage, and with a choice between dealing a not so useful status effect, or a damage bonus against a single family. No higher damage options(i.e levi, nitro) without specific bonuses for specific situations. I think a shadow line cutter would be interesting, as we have only had 2 shadow sword lines so far.

Because poison just isn't the same as setting things on fire. I mean, why go for extra damage with every attack and healing reversal that makes Silkwings murder Trojans when you can have mediocre DoT instead? Look at the Flourish lines, everyone knows that Flamberge is far superior to Rigadoon! Who'd want a support status anyway...

/sarcasm

I see no good reason to implement a fire-inflicting Cutter-type sword. The damage it provides coupled with the low proc chance will make its effect minimal; you might as well go for the Poison-status version instead, which gives a debuff to the afflicted creature's attack and defence, as well as turning all healing on that creature into damage.

I see no good reason to implement a fire-inflicting Cutter-type sword.

FoV anyone?

~Sev

Ohh I see.

So this suggestion is...[meme]

Take a broken weapon that nobody uses

And give it fire because it's cool and nobody will use it.

~Sev

First I'd like to say that the Dread Venom Striker and cutter lines have extremely high DPS and are already too good. A striker doesn't need fire if it already slaughters the enemy before it actually inflicts the status. Fire on a Striker is pointless. If you want to inflict fire by just just slashing and not charging then get a FoV.

1: It's a Signature.

2: I like to let people know what to call me if they want to shorten my name. I don't like people calling me "Severa" or something silly like that.

"First I'd like to say that the Dread Venom Striker and cutter lines have extremely high DPS and are already too good."

LOL. Strikers are debatably the worst DPS swords in the game...

~Sev

fire like cutter? answer.... Fang Of Vog. so Klipik has hit the nail on the head really. im sure its similar but maybe slower. i would however like to see a bit more in the charge attack of the cutter series. though im not sure what. perhaps increased poison chance or does it already have that? maybe even faster swings and action speed from when the attack button is released?
any other ideas?

This is like people asking for a fire Pulsar except it makes a little more sense.

I could be completely wrong and everyone is laughing behind my back, but when I use a Cutter I use it as an opportunist sidearm especially with bombs. Say I plant an Agni or Voltaic or Graviton or whatever. Preferably anything that still does something after the initial detonation. Blast lines and the Snarbolax bombs just detonate normally and deal damage in the area of effect, but everything else does something. What do you do while the bomb is doing something? You could prepare another one. Alright. Go ahead and do that. What if you already did something like the Agni-Voltaic combo? The statuses may only last a few seconds, but that is still a few seconds of waiting. What do I do in the mean time? Switch to a Cutter, slashy slashy time for a couple seconds, back to charging again. What about other bombs? What if you got a Graviton spinning? Do you just charge another one while you watch them flop around? Sure, using a Cutter in that scenario is more risky than the Seerus hammers which fly out of their attacking range, but you could still do it.

Then we have the people who use Cutters as primary offense. That means you frolic around and use it for most of the fighting. Alright. You can do that. Nothing wrong there. Now look at the two alchemy line options. Dread Venom can poison. What does poison do? Lower the attack and resistances of the afflicted, hurts them if something else heals them, and prevents them from healing itself. Sounds pretty gudd. Elmer Fudd. Why would you want to do that? If they have less defense then every swing from your jagged little metal stick now does more damage. It also has less defense so if it happens to hit you you can only be slightly mutilated as opposed to gorily splattered all over the walls. Use the poison to make the afflicted less dangerous to confront. Sounds reasonable. Like an assassin, find your mark, eat them up. Gobble gobble gobble. You are now a turkey. What about the other Cutter, Wild Hunting? Apparently it has more interrupting ability than its toxic sibling. A family bonus. Not a particularly useful one, but it does something. Now imagine these two together against, say, a crazily powerful Lumber with derpbillion health. Dread Venom lowers its defenses, damage output, and ability to heal if something is healing it. Wild Hunting interferes with its ability to fight back by slapping it in the face when it thinks it wants to attack. Bad giant Lumber. Go sit in the corner.

Where does a fire version of this come in? Nowhere. You know what fire is? It deals damage over time. Want to know what Cutters can already do? Flop around with a bunch of quick swings or flail a constant barrage of slashes while making the user move forward slightly so they can walk around while attacking whoever they are trying to talk to. Oh, hey there Billy, how are y- slashed into little cubed pieces and served on a dinner platter with toothpicks. It already can deal damage over time by constantly attacking. What if you tried doing that with other weapons with their little two or three basic swing combos? You get stuck waiting for the final swing to let them start swinging again, especially with heavy swords. Do you see a fire Troika anywhere? No, but we have a freeze one.

What swords can inflict fire from the basic swings that can compare to Cutters in rank? Fang of Vog to start. Why? The thing is a fang from the fire deity. Its basic swings are pretty slow. Its basic combo is three swings. Its charge attack is a homicidal spin of fiery death. What more do you want? Then we have Flamberge. Sure, swift slashes are nice, but how many people do you see using it? Besides me. I abused it when it had the friendly fire glitch and it only feels right to use it properly. How would someone use it? Again, going by how I use it, you take a couple quick swings then you can decide whether to leave them to burn while you ignite other things because playing with fire is perfectly fine or switch to another weapon to finish them off. Your choice. Do what you want. Because a pirate is free.

Remember the old glitch?

Friendly fire?

The training hall was never as fun after they fixed it.

Curse Cutters... if it works like an Acheron

lolwat
Since when did they put curse on my Acheron?