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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Mad Mac" data-source="post: 4066755" data-attributes="member: 27873">Honestly? I think they're trying to discourage everyone just using the weapons that do the most damage. They want different classes to feel different in their weapon and armor choices, and powers that compliment that equipment.  Dagger weilding rogues are iconic, but there wasn't a really good reason to be a dagger using rogue in 3rd edition. You pretty much used a Rapier if going the finesse route, or a greatsword or other big weapon if you were a multi-classed Fighter/Rogue type. And everyone who dual-weilded used two shortswords because that was the optimal choice for most characters.   With lower sneak attack damage, it's a more fair trade-off anyways, especially with so many powers that multiply base weapon damage. You can use a dagger at the heroic tier for the +1 attack and possible  1d4 +2d6 sneak attack damage, or you can use a greataxe for, we'll just say, 1d12+ St on every attack. That's not a bad deal, especially with powers that do double weapon dice damage, or critical hits.   I'm also one of the people that are pretty sure that shurkein fall into the "light blade" catagory, as it would be a puzzling ommision otherwise.   That said, I could see expanding the weapon list a little. But we don't really know how multiclassing and weapon proff's even work at this point, so it's mostly speculation.</blockquote>