Weapon Choice(messege to new players)

[Cali]

WAR is a tanker, as far as I know... but also the most flexible job... at times, a NIN/WAR or PLD/WAR would do better than a WAR, and it'd be better if a WAR can use a damage dealer weapon rather than a tanker weapon(single handed for shield + parry, and may be other equips that may reduce offense for better defense).

Afterall, WAR is the only job with the ability to wield almost everything... so why not fully use that, so you can create any skillchain to fit the party need?

>>flipmazzi that's why we use exp comment? I have seen many high lvl WAR have comments like:
@4000tnl SJ: XXX XXX XXX
Weapon: Great Axe, Axe, Sword
Food: O
or stuffs like that.... though not many care to read, or even use the comment >_>;

[Voila!]

Warriors can tank well, and they can deal damage very well. They can compete with Drks for damage as War/Nin up to 50, then at 50 they completely blow them away.

[Yukimura]

Originally posted by neighbortaru
gah! my eyes!

But yeah, i think it really is based on situations. If you are wanted for this SC or that SC you need certain weapons. I personally would keep axe, sword (including Great types) all leveled. I personally play a war/nin and like to use axe/sword because like some other people pointed out you get certain bonuses from certain weapons. And honestly i still do good dmg. I dont know i like weapons lol. I use them all ^^

[Lmnop]

Warriors can tank well, and they can deal damage very well. They can compete with Drks for damage as War/Nin up to 50, then at 50 they completely blow them away.

So true.....
So sad, but so true....

[TenTen]

I've been asked a total of one (1) times what weapon I use. I said I use an axe, and I was not invited. So much for that.
All other parties seemed to be rather fine with whatever I do, as long as it works out in the end. Not levelling all the weapons I can level decently good, is a waste of potential.

Of course that means only using a sword is bad. But only using an axe is not really better.

[Thegod]

Originally posted by RedWing19
Really, I don't care if the War uses and axe, great sword, or Scythe, just as long as they don't use Sword and Shield. The only reason i say this is because War's will have provoke and boost if they sub mnk to help hold hate. Everything else depends on how hard they hit the mob. A sword and a shield will hit a IT mob maybe for a couple of points of dmg, while a bigger weapon like g-axe or g-sword will hit for a more dmg and help bring hate towards you. Also I used G-Axe to 30 and I loved every min of it.

my warrior is not that high, level 30,a and i only leveled him to sub to mnk, rng, and nin

BUT... i can tell you for fact that my mithran war never hit for single digit dmaage on IT++ mobs, and i used a hand axe from level 1-30 (because the skill was already capped from leveling rng)

oh and if you think capping gaxe when axe is already capped is not that big of a deal, think about it like this, at level 10 i remember hitting as hard with each hand axe swing as i hit with each great axe swing (BECAUSE MY GAXE WAS LEVEL 3 WHILE MY AXE WAS 24 OR SOMETHING, WHATEVER THE CAP IS) so yeah hand axe is perfectly fine, and with a latern shield, you doo very decent damage.

[Voila!]

It sucks inviting a warrior to your party just to find out he's using a sword and shield when you already have a ninja or paladin. Just use a great axe. It's the best weapon you can use, and gives you more felxability then resigning yourself to the sword and shield.

[Mithrael]

Probably the best thing to do is to talk to the WAR before you invite them and tell them which role you intend for them to fill. A tank war will not only use a different weapon, but also a different sub than a damage dealing war (mnk or nin vs. mnk, sam, thf, or nin). They'll sometimes use different food.

It's fine to say "blah blah you're not using an A weapon" but if scission is the best skillchain you can pull off with axe/great axe and you're fighting beetles, what's the point? If you can use a B weapon, lose 5% accuracy but boost party damage (via better skillchain and magicbursts) greater than 5% then you should use the B weapon. In a party based game, you can't always worry about whether or not you are doing the most in your party. Sometimes you have to gimp yourself (*cough* vorpal scythe *cough*) for a few parties, or a few levels (*cough* lv.49 to lv.65 *cough*) so that your party can function better as a whole.

Warriors were given good ratings in many weapons to be versatile. They are indeed the most versatile of all of the classes, appearing as EX on nearly every weapon class. They have access to nearly all of the quested weapon skills. As far as I can tell, they are also the only job that has a weapon skill in all 4 of the Lv.2 renkei attributes.

All of it depends on level and party makeup.

[Thegod]

Mithrael very well stated, i agree 100%, i hate when the warrior wont switch weapons for a better SC/MB

..but i shall state again, for my mithra i just love the dmg/def that a hand axe gives me, it is a very great weapon, and i think its the reason the war's af weapon is a hand axe.

minus sturmwind, the delay on great axe makes me feel like im playing drk, and drk isnt very fun for me.

like for instance, when i was in qufim a looooooooong time ago with my rng i'd ask the warrior to use my cruel spear (yeah i loaned them a spear, IF they had capped skill that is) just so they could lower the mob's evasion so i could hit more of my shoots, warriors are very verstile and i am sooo pissed it wasnt the first job i leveled, it would have saved me alot of time.