Talk:The Witcher 3 silver swords/@comment-44186882-20191118044407

Really would've been nice if there were silver variants of axes and maces. Swords really aren't the most effective weapon; they mostly represented prestige and acted ceremoniously due to the expense it takes to have them made. In actual combat, even knights treated their swords as little more than sidearms if their main weapon was rent from their hands, making more use of polaxes and the like to disarm and cleave through armor. Swords are stopped by most everything, with rapiers becoming most effective for their exceedingly light weight and skewering points permitting them effective stabbing attacks; slashing swords are easily stopped. I'm not even sure why Witchers would've made swords their standard if they hunt monsters primarily.