In the first place, danish sword is better because..... it was just better, Im sorry but I can not imagine Nodachi being used for thrusting, also nodachi was an extemely heavy weapon only for the storngests of Samurai. Give me a reason why Nodachi should be better than anything else?? because u like ur samurai outfit and aditionaly want to have best sword?? there are two types of players in this case: those who dont give a fuck about outfit and wear anything just to have better stats and those who creates cool outfit what force them sometimes to choose the worse weapon/armor, thats ur choice. Just because u want to look cool u want to buff stats of ur beloved nodachi, well I would like arbaled to be buffed not because it looks cool and I want to EQ it but because I have no other choice and its still preety useless.
And someone mentioned something about cRPG's policy of exotic items being medium tier, I dont think its exactly this way, Japanese armours and weapons were just medium in comparison to XV-XVI century European ones. In fact Japanese Katanas would be useless in European Medival reality, but thats something to what cRPG close its eye for poeple like u who love japanese style.