Kayllen Wrote: Who asked you, DUSKIE?!
You did. You asked everyone. Rhetorical questions are doomed online.
More to the point, it is possible to care about weapons, to be interested in the historical use of weapons, and still not give a damn about the realistic portrayal of weapons according to their historical uses in works of fiction. The inevitable appearance of the well-actuallys and discussion around what would happen all things being equal between two historical weapons (things are never equal where they have not been made numerically equal by a dice system) in any thread mentioning weapons to any significant degree makes the arguments tiresome and the arguers pedantic.
I find these arguments especially interesting because the fiction in the times and places where the usage of these weapons was actually relevant didn't give as much of a damn as we do. When Sir Gowther in the romance bearing his name made a giant falchion for himself and went rampaging around the countryside burning down nunneries and engaging in general un-Christian naughtiness, the narrative didn't pause to consider anything but the thematic implications of a nasty low-class weapon like a falchion, and not, say, its efficacy against a person bearing a shield. And Gowther is unusual in its emphasis on that weapon - half the time the people engaging in mass slaughter against characters who are eight-feet tall for no good reason are just using a sword, never mind what kind. We fuss about this more than the writers who lived in these periods and were writing fantastical narratives.
So why wouldn't we use lightsabers if we don't care about realism? Because they're not aesthetically interesting to some players. Efficacy has nothing to with it, the same way that really we should all be converting to Machinist as quickly as possible. The people who are converting to it like the style and how it fits their character concept rather than efficacy. So too with DRK.
So here's what will actually happen, in connection with the OP: A number of people are going to convert to DRK all at once because it's the new tank class and they just have to try it. Some of them will make it an RP thing, but not everybody. Then some people will decide they don't like the playstyle of the class and they'll switch back. It won't have much to do with the reality of the weapons and the portrayal thereof.
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