Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-115.66.200.61-20170826115826/@comment-2607:FEA8:4E20:711:2581:7A31:FA51:BDDA-20171026230947

Yes, I've found the kiwame wakizashi to be very disappointing compared to the kiwame tantou. They actually return from the training vastly weaker than their former Lv. 99 Toku selves, unlike the kiwame tantous who return much stronger, since they are almost always moving dead last while very rarely parrying attacks. Also, from what I've heard, refining their stats won't help much since their performance is based more on level, so they start performing similar to when they were Lv. 99 Toku once they've hit around Lv. 60 or so, which obviously takes an absolutely excruciating amount of experience. However, I've heard they're still not all that great compared to the tantous even then, besides being able to take hits a bit better. In fact, I've heard that a Japanese player that managed to max out the levels of their kiwame wakizashi said they're still not that powerful even at that point, so the general conclusion that many of the Japanese players seemed to have reached is that training them is a waste of time and effort unfortunately compared to the tantous, unless they ever receive a significant buff (which is unlikely).