Phaseblades could use another buff, I know that their damage increased from 21 to 25 but now that they're post EoW/BoC instead of being pre boss they're several tiers higher than originally. Imo their damage is fine, but I never end up using them because their knockback is too weak. Maybe increasing their knockback from 3 to 4, or 3 to 5?
I rarely used Phaseblades before the meteorite change, and they seem even weaker now. They're a cool weapon so would be nice to see them being viable again.
Also, Phasesabers(hardmode) have an identical damage and near identical attack speed to the Night's Edge, and worse knockback. There's basically no reason to ever use them. It would be nice if they could receive the same knockback buff as Phaseblades, and perhaps a slight damage increase?
I'll look at Phaseblades, a knockback change should be within reason (I'm not sure about more damage though)
Phasesabers . . . well, a few posts ago, I mentioned "systemic changes". Night's Edge and the ore swords/phasesabers are a case of that.
Everyone clamors for a Night's Edge buff, and its not something I disagreed with. But no one wants to get Night's Edge, beat WoF, and then get a Breaker Blade that is a downgrade. No one wants to "upgrade" to an ore sword that is weaker than the sword you had before WoF.
Sure, I can buff Night's Edge, then buff Breaker Blade, then buff all the ore swords. And then Excalibur is suddenly not an upgrade anymore. So I buff that, and then, uh oh, Brand of the Inferno is weaker again, and the Chlorophyte Swords aren't an upgrade . . . to say nothing of True Excalibur.
This is what I mean by systemic changes, and it is an issue that there are certain cascades of weapons where if I change one of them, then many of them need to be adjusted as well.
With Night's Edge, I bit the bullet and made the difficult decision that I would buff it, and only it, and that early HM swords would simply have to stay where they were. Because I'm not in a position to sequentially buff the entirety of mid game swords in contrast to Night's Edge. I made that decision because, and only because, Night's Edge is a bit of a "quest" to collect, and is not a standard progression sword pre-HM. So I gave it some extra leeway in terms of power. If you make the extra mile to get it, you gain an edge, and that edge will carry over into Hardmode. And I'm not able to justify buffing the early HM swords in contrast to that edge.
So tl;dr, I probably won't be able to but Phasesabers beyond what I already did in 1.4.
As a side note, the Night's Edge buff was a double-benefit, as it gave me room to buff Muramasa and Fiery Greatsword, as well as reverting the Beekeeper nerf (which all inherently had to be weaker than NE). The infamous "How you doing Muramasa?" meme was the most I could do at the time with an unbuffed Night's Edge.