Throwing weapons. Pointless?

Throwing weapons for each Disciple of War
This has been kinda off to me since I started playing this game.
Interesting concept, but its not needed.

Why do we still have throwing weapons... for class that aren't ranged?
Its bad enough that an archer loses out on pulling a lot because there is
chocobo pulling and tank blitzing.

I know alot of people dont seem to use them in the first place.

I don't want to sound over dramatic about this because I'm not,

but take them out now?

Even then the ONLY one I could see keeping this is the Pugilist.
The throwing circle I was disappointed to find out was not returnable.
Like chakrams usually are.

And how about we bring back throw on our ninjas eh?

oh nuuuuu wrong forum i didnt wanna post here...

Ahh welling. What do archers think about this as a hinderence to our use?

I like having a stack of Silver Javelins for when I need to off-tank/pull stuff on LNC/DRG.

helps me build TP a lil faster when i was lvling my mrd since it was sorta slow between swings

Hmm grabbing the attention of an enemy as an off-tank. Legit I can dig it. As a dragoon wouldn't a simple jump suffice though?

Building TP faster, im sure is a great tactic, but how is that at all fair to archers?
While archers build TP only on their light shot (Assuming your not autoattacking)
Other class can just straight up auto attack and throw in the extra tomahawk for more TP?
How is that fair?

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Originally Posted by AceofRains

Hmm grabbing the attention of an enemy as an off-tank. Legit I can dig it. As a dragoon wouldn't a simple jump suffice though?

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Well I only use them on the off-chance. For example,when off-tanking slugs at Mistress; since Jump can only be used once on a 1 min. timer, and there are three mobs to wrangle.

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Originally Posted by AceofRains

Building TP faster, im sure is a great tactic, but how is that at all fair to archers?
While archers build TP only on their light shot (Assuming your not autoattacking)
Other class can just straight up auto attack and throw in the extra tomahawk for more TP?
How is that fair?

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I don't play ARC/BRD but I feel like this has to become an issue sooner or later. I haven't really bothered messing around with thrown weapons but if they really don't interrupt your swings, it seems like every melee has a way to boost their TP growth beyond the intended level, and if it's significant enough, it'll most likely be adopted as a norm in many boss fights. In case that's not bad enough, the way to accomplish this is also very unintuitive and quite annoying for the player.

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Originally Posted by AceofRains

Building TP faster, im sure is a great tactic, but how is that at all fair to archers?
While archers build TP only on their light shot (Assuming your not autoattacking)
Other class can just straight up auto attack and throw in the extra tomahawk for more TP?
How is that fair?

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Pretty sure the TP gained from using throwing weapons is less than that of AA's, and you're usually interrupting your AA to use a throwing weapon anyways so you're lowering your TP gain even more.

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Originally Posted by TheFatHousecat

Pretty sure the TP gained from using throwing weapons is less than that of AA's, and you're usually interrupting your AA to use a throwing weapon anyways so you're lowering your TP gain even more.

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Nope, AA is not interrupted by weapon-throwing, in fact essentially nothing short of a long execution animation will interrupt your AA sequence.
However, in relation to 'how is this fair to archers' it's pretty simple, my friend. Archers can use throwing weapons as well, giving them a (perhaps needed) secondary source of TP income. Not like i've tried that yet anyway, I haven't levelled ARC and my LS is kind of slow to get moving, but evenso.

When I was soloing as an archer, I had a lot of firepots and some bomb arms that accelerated the TP generation process.

Alternating between Light Shot and Throw. It looks like Levinstones are probably the only easy to obtain throwing weapons that archers can use now. Would probably want to run a parser several times with and without throwing weapons involved.

I also experimented with thrown axes on my WAR and didn't notice any interrupts in AA. This is something that could easily be exploited in fights where animation locking isn't an issue.

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Originally Posted by Frein

I also experimented with thrown axes on my WAR and didn't notice any interrupts in AA. This is something that could easily be exploited in fights where animation locking isn't an issue.

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I haven't gone into a fight without throwing axes on my WAR in a long time. Good for pulling mobs from a distance, but its main benefit is TP generation. AA on WAR is quite slow, but with almost no interuption to auto attack, a throwing weapon has made it so build TP twice as fast as without throwing weapon. 900 tp every 4.5- 5 seconds instead of 450 per swing. I throw an axe after nearly every auto attack.