So why bother with alternate weapons?

Players chose cursayer over varkit? When was this? I have seen maybe two cursayers, and I'm not sure that 2 atk was the reason that they were used, but your save money argument seems plausible. I have also seen someone go from dex dit to str when given the option to use a godly scrolled (as in hacked) dragon knife.

Back in those times the whole reason of making a str dit was for the looks/availability of the Angelic betrayal. It was dropped at MDT's and cursayer was the best looking weapon (arguable against the DT). However a clean cursayer was half the price of something like a blood dagger. The point of my objection was players, although unfortunately not the majority, don't make DPS their highest priority, in fact look at the bigger scale of things such as efficiency. To an axe vs a sword the DPS will have a negligible difference. Nothing that would say, result in a bf war auto win each time. Just like there was an insignificant difference between a str/luk dit.