Smaller and larger sword augment doe more damage and Less damage

[civic slate]

Okok so what if like the smaller sword augment gives you damage and the larger sword augment gives you less damage

[distant bobcat]

Then no one would use the big sword augment. Augments come with the downside of taking up an augment slot on the weapon, so why would it need a downside?
Take spliced and condensed links for example, neither have any built in downside, which is fine, because the downside is not choosing a damage augment.

[night cave]

To be fair some augments do have downsides

Like bomb lighting enemies on fire but doing less damage

But I still feel like no one would choose the big sword

[distant bobcat]

Yeah, but the augments that do have a downside also have a fairly good upside, such as blood rune giving insane starting damage, but only at low health. A big sword doesn't warrant a downside.

[civic slate]

Uhh the how about big sword and like more crit??

Instead of less damage

[distant bobcat]

It doesn't need more crit, big sword is fine on it's own, it just doesn't need a downside.

[civic slate]

OH THAT'S A GOOD IDEA

[visual echo]

I feel like these would kill the point of the relics in the game that do the same thing 😅

Bee Stinger (smaller weapon but slightly more damage) and Possessed Hammer (larger weapon)

[distant bobcat]

Well, we have the chain length modifier augments for flail and still have Possessed Hammer and Bee Stinger, it just increases/decreases it further.

That being said, I would never use this as an augment, not that I wouldn't like a bigger sword, it just wouldn't be worth the slot, especially not with all of the heavy hitting sword augments, like Honed Edge and Blood Rune. Also, a bigger dagger works because the dagger is so small, the sword doesn't need more range as an augment.

So I wouldn't want to see this in the game if being honest.