They did a much better job than I anticipated. After practicing a number of 1v1s and getting better with the weapons, I have one critical suggestion:

Allow us to swap weapons much faster (or even instantly)

Give it a stamina cost, or a cool-down, or some other penalty, but allow us the option to switch weapons & attack right away. Allow this while sprinting, if possible.

It sounds broken and unfair on paper, but the one thing I noticed was that there were many times I might have been able to punish someone's missed attack by switching to daggers and lunging with them, except that it's on too much of an animation delay.

If weapon swaps are made fluid, faster, and allow players to suddenly surprise an opponent once or twice throughout a fight, you got yourself dark souls online.

Also, can the daggers' backflip ability have some I-frames? Maybe less than a dodge roll but more than 0? Being able to suddenly back-flip forward towards an enemy feels incredibly fun, except that I get cut in half as I do it.