WAR Job Ability 90+: "Weapon Mastery"

[Superchicken]

Further throughout the post, I tried to bring to light that a pro WAR could already go neck and neck with most other jobs with the limited Weapon skills they already possess, and could shine even further with access to a few more ws's at their disposal

what is this limitation of weaponskills you speak of. To me warrior has access to very many WS as is. And lets be honest here, WARs excel at GA this day in time. Sure they are good with the Axe but still gonna favor the GAxe. They even do good with the sword, dual wield wars with off hand Ridill main hand axe or sword spamming rampage or vorpals were pretty nice as well in those ToAU merit parties but even then wars using polearm spamming penta thrust were pretty nasty. So lets look at this ok you dont get dancing edge you dont get asuran fists, when would you seriously ever utilize these anyway even if you did have them? You could say well i'm fighting piercing mobs so DE go go, but even then i'd bet you would do better with penta thrust which you already have. Well i'm fighting pots or bones and need blunt dmg, even then i dont think asuran fists would fare you much and would probably be better to just stick with a GA. In essence if you think about it ok you want this things but probably wouldn't come into very main practical situations to use them anyway.

Using whm and hexa was kind of a bad example cause your comparing a mage that stands in the back line majority of the time and aint dding anyway.

[kingfury]

what is this limitation of weaponskills you speak of. To me warrior has access to very many WS as is. And lets be honest here, WARs excel at GA this day in time. Sure they are good with the Axe but still gonna favor the GAxe. They even do good with the sword, dual wield wars with off hand Ridill main hand axe or sword spamming rampage or vorpals were pretty nice as well in those ToAU merit parties but even then wars using polearm spamming penta thrust were pretty nasty. So lets look at this ok you dont get dancing edge you dont get asuran fists, when would you seriously ever utilize these anyway even if you did have them? You could say well i'm fighting piercing mobs so DE go go, but even then i'd bet you would do better with penta thrust which you already have. Well i'm fighting pots or bones and need blunt dmg, even then i dont think asuran fists would fare you much and would probably be better to just stick with a GA. In essence if you think about it ok you want this things but probably wouldn't come into very main practical situations to use them anyway.
Using whm and hexa was kind of a bad example cause your comparing a mage that stands in the back line majority of the time and aint dding anyway.

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Hey man,
Dagger comes to mind 1st, H2H, and then polearm and scythe next. There's a few more, but lets just start with those. A WARs dagger ws list is just depressing lol! Yet the dmg I've personally pulled off with Evisceration both outside and inside Abyssea is on par(if not more) with a THF and a DNC. I've done nicely with all the other classes listed above, but there's no telling what limits a WAR could go with them due to the limited ws's WAR has access to in these classes.
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You're post pretty much answers your question for me ^^ Aside from WAR having access to a powerhouse weapon like GA and Axe, a WAR can choose all those different great weapons based on whatever situation constitutes them exercising the SE-given choice to do so That's the foundation of my entire basis for posting this proposed JA. That's WAR's unique gift, variety. Who's to say what the potential possibilities would be if we had more ws's until WARs got the chance to get out and master those ws? In my opinion, only a WAR that has mastered the ws's in their possession currently would be able to truly accurately speculate the possibilities. Not saying I'm a master of all just yet, but of the things I've seen possible with WAR over the years, I personally say the possibilities would be endless. We don't even know what's in store for WAR at lvl 99 yet lol... well we do know there'll be higher combat skills at least ^^
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Nah, my reasons for cross referencing WHM's ws list to that of a WARs was to diffuse the many expressed fears that WAR having too much ws access would rob jobs of their uniqueness. Further back in the thread, I referenced PLD the same way. My point was that most standard ws's don't define a job's uniqueness, but rather Job abilities and Special high lvl Job specific ws's do. Even if other jobs got access to as many weapons as WAR has access to, WAR would still have the JA's to outclass them while using those weapons. No other job would be able to steal WARs thunder or uniqueness because of it's job abilities. Thus validating what makes them unique over all other DD's and jobs in FFXI.
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Thanks for the feedback /