It's the same problem of the :
Nordic sword, sword,simple sword and nordic simple sword.
Those two nordic swords glance on EVERYTHING, got 9 PS, and I feel disgusted. Stabs are completely useless, and if that's to pay such upkeep, I better take a champion nordic sword, like pretty much 80% of 1handers. In the case of the european swords, it's even worse when it comes to cut damage, even if stab is ok, it's completely pathetic to glance like that with huge PS values.
I'd like to see mid tier sword and axes buffed, I'd love to be able to loom a 1 slot middle tier sword, but it's simply not worth it at the moment, since high tier weapons already got speed, lengh, damage, etc ... (except on knighly arming sword, which I consider as a mediocre weapon at melee compared to other swords).