Rune weapon question

[Yoss]

How exactly does skill level work for a weapon your job can't normally use?

From playing drg, I have a polearm skill of around ~160, so I was thinking about picking up a rune spear for farming if I could still penta. I don't know where the skill cap is on these, and I'm kind of hesistant to blow a couple hundred K on something that doesn't sell very often.

Anyone ever try these out?

~thanks

Edit:

Ah, think I found something that explained it. Even though you can equip it bard has 0 spear skill, so skill level will be 0 unless your sub can use that weapon. So if I go brd/(drg/war/sam/pld) I would get whatever skill level they had at lvl 35.

But if this is the way it works, why would anyone buy it?

Can someone else confirm this?

[Peanut_Midgard]

That's exactly the way it works. SE slaps job tags on some items that is rather bizzare. No one really knows why Look at Minstrel Coat, DRG can use it :D

Also, you probably know already but just in case. The latent effect on the rune weapons is MP drain of 4 MP per tick. So if your job combo/equip don't have MP the latent effect won't kick in.

[Beaginator]

I just know I'd look pretty badass hitting stuff with a great axe, even if I whiff every time. That is all.