Completely agree. It's an utter joke, and an incredibly niche weapon that would require the person to practice it for longer than a usual weapon, just for it to be still underwhelming.

The damage is terrible considering the slow swing speed and the massive movement speed penalty, and on top of that the knockback of your swings usually end up making your miss your 3rd and most powerful swing, so that mechanic is counter-intuitive. The range isn't that great either, 2.5, compared to swords' 2.4, and the krom beats it only by 0.1 at 2.6. The secondary attack is also just, silly looking to say the least, however, it is pretty good regarding stamina usage and stagger and to finish enemies off. Apart from that, the weapon type is just disappointing. And just to say, the weapon doesn't need to be super good regarding combat prowess like the atgeir as an example, i wouldn't mind it if it was fun, but it's simply not either.

Just feels like an "alt attack into m1 spam" type weapon, which may describe the atgeir, but that weapon type's range, damage and swing speed don't require you to alt attack to initiate, neither does it rely on parrying - which is also rather boring. But pretty much every weapon that isn't the battle axe, does the job of a battle axe better in a good amount of aspects.

I really hope it does get reworked too. In comparison, i love the krom/2-handed sword design, fun and good animation with good damage, speed, and knockback that doesn't screw you over like the battleaxe's does. Looking at it, Krom is just a better battleaxe minus tree chopping.

Edit: Also forgot one of the biggest reasons i never bother making it, is because of how bloody expensive it is to make, let alone upgrade. 125 total iron needed for tier 4 is absurd for how underwhelming the weapon is, and the upgrades aren't even that good.