All other Dimensional Slice weapons are Analog (The longsword, the starknife, and the doshko). Is this intentional? What do you think?
I don't see any reason to doubt it. The various series often have little in common between models. Like, the Ceremonial Troop Plate has three upgrade slots and -10 move, but the Ceremonial Officer Plate only has one upgrade slot and -5 move, while the Commander version is up to five upgrade slots and back to -10 movement. Golemforged I has a zero maximum Dex modifier but the higher levels have some of the best (my 16 Dex soldier wears Golemforged III and gets his full bonus to AC).
I think that they were more concerned with having each weapon fit a niche rather than making sure all the series had similar properties. In the specific case of the Dimensional Slice Curve Blade, that's the highest damage non-unwieldy weapon in the game; not a huge stretch to think that they looked at it and wanted to give it an ammo limitation.
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All other Dimensional Slice weapons are Analog (The longsword, the starknife, and the doshko). Is this intentional? What do you think?
The curveblade line becomes powered at item level 16 with the buzzblade. The dimensional slice curveblade is intended to be powered.
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You can tell if something is a laser sword by the damage it does. But many weapons that are powered still do S damage, because the power is a form of electric knife or chainsaw action, ranging from actual moving edges along a spine to just vibrating the blade so it cuts more easily.
Some of the power swords in Warhammer 40,000 are basically lightsabers, a blade-shaped forcefield that flays material away from the target, essentially ripping them apart from a molecular level. Others are actual blades with the lethal forcefields emitting from them.
Would be interesting if we ever got weapons that did magic missile-style damage.