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They probably didn't know what classes would end up making it into launch. By the time they knew it was too late to change elements since the NPCs for the weapons were already designed, even if most of them didn't make it into the launch story, anyway. Just poor planning all around, like a lot of things in SR.

Rorola also originally used a scythe, which is probably why the katana class ended up with a random scythe since they had the work done before changing Rorola's class.