Your Weapons, Your Confusion...

[Casimir]

Thats not exactly terrible. As has been said use it properly you wont have problems. Ive had very few problems fighting people in black armour using the normal espada with 6PS. Having 30+ pierce should mean pretty effective sword and 1 less cut than you expected hardly makes it worthlesd. If you wanted high cut should have heirloomed a different sword

[Mustang_Sweets]

Thats not exactly terrible. As has been said use it properly you wont have problems. Ive had very few problems fighting people in black armour using the normal espada with 6PS. Having 30+ pierce should mean pretty effective sword and 1 less cut than you expected hardly makes it worthlesd. If you wanted high cut should have heirloomed a different sword

Ya, you are very right on that... just i felt like i was getting gypped.

[Engine]

If you absolutely do not want to bounce/whiff, get a military hammer/broad one handed battle axe/steel pick. But they have their own downsides (short, no thrust or very weak one).

My steel pick whiffs occasionally, and it's a 36 pierce heirloom...

Also, I (and the people I play with) believe that the game considers weapon length to be straight, regardless of the actual curves a weapon has. Balbaroth was good at using this "ghost" blade to cut people at distances that the ingame scimitar model wouldn't display as a hit. I think this is another reason the steel pick whiffs.