The article currently lists full power at Tier 7, and I'm kind of skeptical of this thing being a mecha-killer. It's quite small compared to the blades used by mecha, and the power source is commensurately less, even when being wielded by a PA.
I'm hoping I can assuage this concern, because it is worth discussing! I'll highlight the important parts to TLDR the tedious parts.
... ability to become a
missile...
- Missile mode(Overcharge) let's it hit T7 once...
It's missile setting has an active time of
3 seconds to address the concern of power and doing this results in the destruction of the sword as seen in the finale of
Silent Legends as Koku Ken kills both Candon and Sana, spearing them both and exploding within their armors. As you can see, this was a desperate fight and this sword was no stranger to SARP having been built in YE 37,
seeing 5 years of existence before this mode was even considered! It was not considered "normal usage" and
was destroyed in YE 42
during the first and only usage of the feature, being used as a grand finale. SIZE: Seeing as this similar sword is bigger than Koku Ken by a lot and similar in size to the shoulder cannons which are powered by the same Mindy it is not only common practice for T7 weapons to be seen on PA, often serving in a "fire-support" or "anti-vehicle" capacity, but also reasonable to assume this weapon can be overcharged to achieve similar results as the power is capable of being provided for the low low cost of 11,650 KS... this is not a cheap sword. But let's talk performance. You described it as a "Mecha-killer" and that is not entirely accurate. I will use charts for this part.
We will begin this part assuming we are using T7 missile function(I feel like that descriptor is going to stick).
Assuming we use our missile mode
T7 vs a T7 light mecha with
on-tier shields we will need to score
3 direct hits to "potentially" kill it. How many attempts do we get at this?
One sword.. you can probably see the problem, so unless Barone decides to cosplay Zoro Roronoa for the cost of 34,950 KS in damages and never misses he
might kill that mecha depending completely on where he hit it, all the while that mecha is not going to just stand around and let him do that!
Now let's do the math at its intended setting for use in PA,
T6 vs a T7. It will take
4 strikes to drop shields and at least
2 more to kill, same as the aether blades... I'd say that mecha has the advantage here! and look at how things shift as the mecha gets bigger too. This weapon is meant to kill PA and below, requiring
at least 3 direct hits to potentially kill a T6 like the Hostile and it's the sword's T7 missile requiring the shields to be down to achieve this as it would take two and cost thousands of KS to either fix or replace, depending on what it hit and if it could be retrieved.
Truly we can see that this submission is actually less damaging than the Aether Blade series which CAN penetrate zesu. That being said, even if this could pierce zesu it could kill one whole Mindy before being either inoperable or destroyed. I hope to know if the color coding is helpful and welcome feedback as I'm hoping to communicte clearer in this forum especially.
