sword merit warrior viable?

[Jei]

Talked to some friends who are taking warior close to 75 now. He said he's going all out sword merit and is duelling company main-hand with joyuse off-hand. He also mentioned +5 skill from ear rings.

So, do you think this set up works? Will the damage out put be much worse than an all-out axe wariors if both have similar other gears?

[Feba]

If he works to get a Ridill, he'll probably be fine. With that setup, it might work.


Joyeuse offhand is almost required from everything i've seen.

[Bravura]

Yes, it will work.

Although I recommend going 4 Axe, 8 Sword - Axe/Joyuese.

Sword/Sword isnt really that good unless you have Ridill.

[ZQM]

Maneater/Jug is the best you can get without a Ridill.

Maneater/Joyeuse is also ok, most WARs do it because Joyeuse is a lot cheaper then a Jug.

Company/Joyeuse is slightly weaker then Man/Joy, but isn't bad by any means. DMG just doesn't really mean that much, ATK is a lot more important. If you're into dual swords and want to do Company/Joyeuse you'll still do really good damage.

[Jei]

if you go all axe without meritting sword, how much merit can you put into axe?

[Tirrock]

I believe the current cap on (offensive) combat skills is 8. While the cap for all of combat skills combined is 12. So you could get 8 axe + 4 sword, 8 sword + 4 axe, 6 axe and 6 sword, or a combination like that...

[Akai]

i thought you could only merit a weapon 8 times, parry/shield/eva/guard 4 o.o
well, anyway, axes are just better because rampage dwarfs anything sword has except vorpal...maybe... but id use wood/joy or ridill if i had ridill/joyeuse T_T

[Jei]

so wood/jug is still the best in terms of damage right?
Ridill/joy... man this sounds so much fun tho .. T_T

Another question. Since rampage is a multi hit, is it better to keep ACC gears on while using it, or better to switch in STR+ATTK gears?
I see a lot of 75Wars go full ACC. They don't even wear STR rings but go for woodmans.

[ZQM]

Maneater is better then Woodsville. 18 ATK 5 ACC is a LOT better then 1 DMG/4 STR.

And ACC on Rampage depends on the camp, what food you using, what gear you have, ect.

[Jei]

maneater has 18ATK and 5ACC too? It's hidden? How to trigger it?

[Tirrock]

I think it's active whenever you're below 100% TP. If I remember right, it works while doing a WS too.

[Bravura]

I see a lot of 75Wars go full ACC. They don't even wear STR rings but go for woodmans.

Thats because they eat meat and marco in STR for WSs.

[Jei]

no. a few wars I PT with have their gears like this and still eat sole sushi.

[Bravura]

Well if theyre going full ACC (Life Belt, PCC, Snipes + Haub etc.) and still eating sushi -- they just suck.

Hard.