Talk:Amet Revfold/@comment-4773581-20131225025430/@comment-4773581-20131225050510

That's entirely counterproductive, though. Why go to the academy that has you make your own weapon to fight with instead of, say, Sanctum, which assumedly doesn't require that you spend time making your own weapon. It'd certainly save you a lot of trouble down the line, as you could actually train with your WoC from the get-go instead of having to spend that chunk of time learning to make, making, and training with a weapon that you're just going to chuck down the line anyways.

Also, with the way Ruby talks about weapons (though it's probably a bit of an exaggeration...maybe), what you're describing would, more or less, be the equivalent of learning to play soccer just so that you can cut off your leg, replace it with a prosthetic, and then learn to play basketball like that. It's probably not that drastic, but the basic idea is the  same. You spend a lot of time and effort learning to do one thing, throw away that one thing and what you need to do that one thing, and go on to learn a whole 'nother thing afterwards for no real reason, resulting in a lot of wasted time and effort.