Sure it doesn't need to be. But it was pitched to be the next end game PvM content to hold interest until raids 3, not some new slayer boss. Slayer bosses like hydra are drastically more gp/hr. Gauntlet is even less gp/hr than sire and Cerberus at the moment, who aren't even end game PvM bosses. That's absurd. If something is end game content, it can't just be 1-2m gp/hr, otherwise the content is dead for the very group it targeted for one thing. Fixing the blade for an actual use in the meta, underneath a scythe, was absolutely the intention of the blade and it has failed. The jmods themselves intended this to be a weapon you use in TOB, but as it turns out it's less hours camping a bloody abyssal whip for the 500+ kc it would take to acquire both a rapier and scythe to replace the blade of saeldor.