So much QQ over the new weaponskills... I maxed out Entropy and Resolution(sp), as well as Shinjin Spiral... tested all three...

My conclusions: Victory smite and Stringing Pummel will still be #1 for damage dealing--"however"--for longer fights, I can definitely see situational use for Shinjin, due to it's application of plague... so cheers for a weaponskill that provides strategic usage.

Entropy... My play style on DRK really appreciates this weaponskill. I tend to cast "ALOT" of magic, rarely do I spend time nuking unless in abyssea, lacking any other form of nuking magic for building azure lights, DRK can do that solo... my issue when doing this was running out of MP and spamming either the martellos (w/ their 12-20 min cooldown) hoping I have enough temp items or hoping to get chests with MP restoring items... thx to this weaponskill those days will be gone. The MP restore effect is AWESOME. DRK doesn't need another Guillotine. I am a DRK and I love the job... but having 2, 3 or 4 weaponskills that do relatively the same dmg is a little excessive. That being said: I don't believe the weapon skill needs to be changed in the slightest. /cheers from me SE

Resolution (sp)... apparently this weaponskill is for dmg...so that being said, I compared it to Torcleaver... and I was pleasantly impressed. The final numbers for dmg varied a little wildly, sometimes Resolution would do 1700 dmg w/ slightly more tp than the previous weaponskill, but the previous weaponskill would have done 2400 dmg... a little difficult to understand why such a huge difference when there was such a small variation in tp.

I tested H2H on pots--due to their natural weakness to blunt... then went to Altepa and tested Gsword and Scythe on Dhamels.

All 3 weapon skills were 5/5 in merits... I will definitely go w/ H2H 5/5... Gsword is a winner at 5/5 for DRK... unsure whether or not Entropy is worth 5/5. (The MP restored effect was potent... i was down to 30 mp and one 100+tp Entropy restored my mp pool to max (500+)). So far, that's my quick 1 hour run on the test server w/ those 3 weapon skills.