I think they never intended these wpns to be more then slash axe / sword, but midgard had an issue with the lack of hammer artis as quite a few use crush instead of axe/sword.. so they made it crush aswell, but if you ask me, we have enuff thrust/piercing artis and that will suffice, you can still wear these artis but not to do full dmg, so do as someone said and keep it on ur back for procc/charge or whatever. doubt they will ever make battler/malice thrust