Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-70.110.65.35-20130815161200/@comment-11490363-20130815165241

The weapons themselves are not the issue. What matters is a good balance between offense and defense. If you can drop your DP by a couple hundred points to gain 8K in defense, then that is a no brainer. The extra attacks that translates into from not dying as early easily makes up for the reduced damage per attack. Overall it is a win.

For other tradeoffs it is hard to tell which is better so you should try both and see, generally a few hundred DP for 1K in defense is worth it.