What if the Dark Split-Sword could actually transform mid-battle?

[Arizoko]

Give it two stance slots (un-polarized by default and possibly un-Forma-able to keep it at the same 10 point bonus that other weapons get from their stances) for a Heavy Blade & Dual Swords stance. While in a mission, press Heavy Attack while holding down Switch Weapon to swap styles. If you want to get really fancy you could even add some sort of temporary combo gain bonus to encourage people to keep swapping between the two in a combo.

Might be a bit too much effort for a single weapon (that isn't terribly good) but it'd also open the door to more such weapons down the line.

[Zeyez]

this were DE's idea since long ago, but the game's engine couldn't handle that feature yet
funny thing that i did mentioned the exact same idea in recent topic that was asking for custom combo set, taking movements of each individual stance
the idea was literally create an additional slot stance for Dark-Split sword and allow swap between both modes with heavy attack button

On 2019-11-16 at 10:28 PM, Zeyez said:

the only weapon that really requires that feature is Dark-Split Sword, because it can be dual sword or heavy sword depending on equipped stance (they could use heavy attack to swap between heavy and dual stance mode, adding an timed swap buff based on meele combo counter)
but any other... then why they used that much time to create every stance variation if you can just pick the best of each one? it will break the possibility of balance between each stance, since they will need to look at effects of each combo inside of that stance and compared directly with other ones of same weapon type
remember that not all stances has all 4 combos, so some stances will just add an extra attack option without drawbacks, like polearm stances

still, if you didn't create that topic, i would be doing that in one week or less since im quite busy now

Edited November 20, 2019 by Zeyez
like this topic, everything in the world can be changed, it just needs the right words... and the left ones too

[TenebraeAeterna]

If it could, it would set a precedent...and then I'd be begging them to provide an upgrade or augment stance to the Caustacyst that allowed it to split into twin kamas of a similar theme.