who have had enough charges to get killed by losing my weapon(s) (and have died a few times like this), I can tell you that in that situation you summon the guy in your pk away from the one not in your pk. Then you get him blinded before the guy out of your pk catches up.

That's harder than not dealing with it, agreed. That's why it would affect game balance. That's one of the ways in which a high int ap race can be better than a high str ap race, because they have more mana for things like summonings.

As I said, I would be very pissed off if some lowbie sacced my weapon, but I still think it is good for game balance purposes. If, as you said, you've built up 500 charges, it seems only right that you should still have to watch out for losing your weapon to these cheap tactics. ie you can't just kill everyone you see (which would, I contest, be overpowered).

And at the end of the day, you could rank up to 40 to get iron grip. Why don't you do that? Because it is easier to get charges at lvl 36 than level 40. That is part of the game balance that would be affected by preventing lowbies saccing weapons.