Throwing WS?

[Swords]

While throwing WS would be fun to mess with, at the same time its sort of moot.

1- Most throwable weapons (returning and ammo) have low DPS, and the consumeables that do have decent-high DPS are usually hard to come by in large quantities without breaking your coin-purse.

2- Last I checked, Throwing weapons still suffer from the same limitations and restrictions other ranged weapons use. Meaning you have to get just the right distance away from the mob to reliably land and optimize your damage. And let me tell you even with Atma's, Ranged attacks are still pretty lacking outside of Emp. WS.

3- There's also the manner of swapping out Ranged Attack/Acc gear to give the WS power.

4- There is 6 jobs with a C or greather throwing skill, and only 3 NIN, DNC, SAM could really make use of it. The other three, RNG, COR, and PUP use their ranged/ammo slots for other equipment.

I won't say there wouldn't be uses for having a Throwing WS even if its NIN or /NIN. For starters, you could WS without going into a mobs AoE range. It can also be good for pulling giving a tank a good hate spike while keeping a safe distance, especially if your tank is /nin and has nothing else to pull hate with. Anyways, those are just a few thoughts off the top of my head.

[Jackastheripper]

Am I missing something when people try to use the defense "only certain jobs can make use of it, so why add it"? They have all kinds of limitations on the weapon skills in place and I don't see how job limitation makes this not a good idea. We also get all kinds of weapon skills that are for all purposes useless except for in very certain situations. I don't see how throwing weapon skills would be any different. My main is Monk and it has horrible throwing skill but I would get no use out a throwing weapon skill with the exception of blasting something with a pebble for my own giggles. But again, that is just me. Proceed.

[Swords]

Am I missing something when people try to use the defense "only certain jobs can make use of it, so why add it"? They have all kinds of limitations on the weapon skills in place and I don't see how job limitation makes this not a good idea. We also get all kinds of weapon skills that are for all purposes useless except for in very certain situations. I don't see how throwing weapon skills would be any different. My main is Monk and it has horrible throwing skill but I would get no use out a throwing weapon skill with the exception of blasting something with a pebble for my own giggles. But again, that is just me. Proceed.

This is true to a degree, almost every WS has it's uses and I even went as far to mention a few situations where it might be useful. However, like I mentioned most throwing weapons are low DPS, suffer a huge drawback of ranged attack mechanics, using R.atk/R.acc gear, and overall skill. NIN aside every other job with throwing skill is C+ and lower, a grand majority of users who do not use other types of ranged attacks are usually up there wailing on the mob doing more damage, and the mobs you typically wouldn't melee on you wouldn't be doing ranged attacks on either.