[dev1049] New weapon skills

[Zhronne]

I'm a Vere Monk and I still don't know what to do.
I like the visuals of the new WS but damage wise it sounds pretty meh.
Maybe it works good on enemies with lots of defense, like some VW NMs?
Supposing this is true (it definitely is for Katana and Sword WSs) it could potentially be a good WS to use when Impetus or additional critrate buffs are down, making Vsmite not particularly powerful against those strong NMs.

But in all honesty as far as I've experienced it's not a very common situation, is it worth to spend 100merit points on Shujin when another job might benefit more? For example getting both the PA and the GKT ws for SAM.

[xbobx]

I thought another monk tested and it was doing as much as VS. Hopefully testing can be done on its skillchain properties. I hope it makes light with ranger puppet so I dont have to do the emp.

[Rezeak]

Just as feedback for DRK the new gsd and scy WS are ok

the Scythe ws is nice for mp return and the greatsword one is great for dmg

but GSD now trumps SCY in almost every way now outside that of the relic WS allowing you to recover hp which imo is dumb.

[Finuve]

Just as feedback for DRK the new gsd and scy WS are ok

the Scythe ws is nice for mp return and the greatsword one is great for dmg

but GSD now trumps SCY in almost every way now outside that of the relic WS allowing you to recover hp which imo is dumb.

whats scythe damage compared to quietus?

[Lessina]

I thought another monk tested and it was doing as much as VS. Hopefully testing can be done on its skillchain properties. I hope it makes light with ranger puppet so I dont have to do the emp.

As far as I can tell it's Fusion.

So you can make Fusion off String Shredder or Light from... Bone Crusher.

On the whole it feels pretty crap-tastic. :/

[uptempo]

Just as feedback for DRK the new gsd and scy WS are ok

the Scythe ws is nice for mp return and the greatsword one is great for dmg

but GSD now trumps SCY in almost every way now outside that of the relic WS allowing you to recover hp which imo is dumb.

Got some figures generally curious as im thinking of upgrading a ranorak i have the gil and was going to put it into liberator but i may just go with the relic gs.

That been said the only way i can see gs pulling ahead of apoc using the new ws is with a ragnorak due to apoc having 20% odd built into it.

[Fusionx]

Merited the new dagger WS today. It's listed as "." in my WS list and I cant use it via the menu or text command. /sigh

[Taint2]

Got some figures generally curious as im thinking of upgrading a ranorak i have the gil and was going to put it into liberator but i may just go with the relic gs.

That been said the only way i can see gs pulling ahead of apoc is with a ragnorak due to apoc having 20% odd built into it.

Rag is going to benefit greatly from the new WS, gear updates will determine if Apoc stays on top but it should, esp with the new DA/TA/QA items they added.

[Dfoley]

I just dont see how this is any different from the current system where you can only max 2-3 weapon skills (aka +8 h2h ga polearm)

OMG WHY CANT I MAKE ALL COMBAT SKILLS +8 its NOT FAIR....
um no.... its called balance and picking certain jobs to be better than others for you.

Its nothing new, and I full support it as is.

[Insaniac]

How is that balance? How does limiting the amount of content someone can work towards in a content starved game make any sense at all? Where is the harm in it? That's what I don't understand. People should not be able to be as good as possible on all their jobs? My question is "why?". Who does it hurt and how does it hurt them?